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...Author. Dominic Bevan Wyndham Lewis (not to be confused with Wyndham Lewis, author of Time and Western Man) is a scholarly, lively, devout, belligerent Roman Catholic, living in France. In company with his compatriots Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc, Montague Summers, his Catholicism makes him an apologist for the Middle Ages, a contemner of his own. Author D. B. Wyndham Lewis has also written François Villon...
...Collaborators. G. B. Shaw's theory is that Chesterton and Belloc are not two persons, but one mythological monster, "the Chesterbelloc," a combative, capering elephant. Both write brilliantly, voluminously?history, biography, fiction, indifferent poetry, essays on religion and ethics, essays on morals and manners; both champion ecclesiasticism, traditionalism, medievalism; both revile socialism, woman's suffrage and G. B. Shaw...
Detective Writer Joseph Hilaire Belloc is French by birth (1870), English by naturalization (1902). Arrogant, self-assured, his parliamentary career was remarkably unsuccessful. A devi for work, he is a genius for play, bringing to it tremendous energy, gargantuan exuberance...
...Hilaire Belloc, biographer of the French Revolution, has once more issued a new edition of one of the best of these character studies--DANTON Putnam's, New York, 1928. $5). As in the case of his works on Marie Antoinette and Robespierre, Mr. Belloc has made no changes is the estimates he made of Danton back in his salad days--nor does there seem to be any reason why he should, for his chief charm, his eye for the dramatic and his fine literary style need no refurbishing...
...recent biography of Robespierre, Hilaire Belloc sets a new standard. According to his work, that famous character of the French Revolution was not the bloodthirsty, fanatical flend he is usually pictured to be, but a nonentity who reached his position through circumstance and was merely the mouthpiece for a prevalent doctrine. The prospects if such a model is followed are appalling. Mankind may manage to struggle along without any paragons to inspire virtues, but without any villains to use as horrible examples its instructors would...