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Notes

 
[1]

The Life of Hilaire Belloc (1957), pp. 104-108; hereafter Speaight.

[2]

Hilaire Belloc (1984), pp. 83-87, passim.

[3]

Alan Phillips's brief article, "Why Hilaire Belloc Will Live," Poetry Review, 35 (1944), 29-32, is of the rhapsodic school of literary criticism. See, however, Gertrude White, "True Words in Jest: The Light Verse of Chesterton and Belloc," Chesterton Review, 6, No. 1 (Fall-Winter, 1979-80), 1-26.

[4]

In the essay "Coming to an End" in his collection of essays On Nothing.

[5]

Speaight, p. 150, has "little tiny boys" but also "Which" and "form."

[6]

See The Life of Charles Gore. A Great Englishman, by G. L. Prestige (1935), pp. 227-237.

[7]

J. G. Lockhart, Charles Lindley-Viscount Halifax, 2 vols. (1935, 1936), 2:193.

[8]

Modern atlases give this spelling.

[9]

The curious may wish to read the verses on p. 9 (his reading in bed every night for 31 years), p. 13 (his view of certain of his contemporaries), pp. 14-15 (a typical day in 1907); and p. 16 (political expenses).