Acknowledgments
Preface:
Part 1
Chapter 1 “On the Character of Enduring Things”
Chapter 2 On Endurance and Fortitude
Chapter 3 At the Lake of Tiberias
Chapter 4 On Fame
Chapter 5 “A Place Where I Have Never Yet Seen”
Part 2
Chapter 6 The Path to Rome: Belloc’s Walk a Century Later
Chapter 7 Permanence
Chapter 8 On the Vanity of Learned Men
Chapter 9 Ars Taedica
Chapter 10 On the Usefulness of the New Year
Part 3
Chapter 11 “Islam Will Not Be the Loser”
Chapter 12 A Certain Loss
Chapter 13 On Thinking Continually of Those in Beatitude
Chapter 14 On Remembering “A Remaining Christmas”@
Chapter 15 On Being Close to Things Primary
Part 4
Chapter 16 On Towns and Places
Chapter 17 The Fight for Good Things
Chapter 18 On Irony as the “Avenger of Truth”
Chapter 19 Belloc’s Mrs. Markham on the Americans
Chapter 20 “Ultimate Knowledge upon the Ultimate Realities”
Part 5
Chapter 21 Belloc on the Metaphysics of Walking
Chapter 22 On the Loneliest Month
Chapter 23 “In the Presence of So Wonderful a Thing”
Chapter 24 “What We Have Long Called England”
Part 6
Chapter 25 The Charm of Belloc: “On Caring Too Much”
Chapter 26 October Thirtieth, 1902
Chapter 27 In Persuit of Nobody
Chapter 28 Belloc’s Infamous Phrase
Chapter 29 Harbour in the North
Chapter 30 The Unsuccessful Man
Conclusion
Bibliography
Fr. James V. Schall teaches political philosophy at Georgetown University and a prolific essayist and author. Among his many works are the following from St. Augustine’s Press: The Regensburg Lecture, Sum Total of Human Happiness, The Modern Age, and The Classical Moment.
Rev. C. John McCloskey III is a Research Fellow of the Faith and Reason Center in Washington, D.C. He is the author of The Essential Belloc and of the well-known Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan
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