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...Significance. Author Belloc will be best remembered for two things: vigorous versatility and a magnificent English prose style. The Cruise of the Nona brings both into constant play. And of the two, the latter-as Author Belloc would agree if his humility matches his fervor- is the more important. Man being but an infirm creature, his convictions matter little, however brilliant and penetrating. But to couch convictions in beautiful words, to elaborate them faithfully beyond the perversive structures of Anglo-Saxon terseness, that is art, that is service...
...Author. Historian, military-theorist, economist, traveler, publicist, parliamentarian, humorist, philosopher, man of letters, parts, action and faith, Hilaire Belloc, 55, Oxford-educated son of a French barrister and a cultured Englishwoman, is (with his friend G. K. Chesterton) a leading British champion of Roman Catholocism...
...England, George Bernard Shaw, in the course of a debate with Hilaire Belloc, described William Jennings Bryan, leader of the prosecution in the Scopes case, as "a man with an extraordinary uplift and no discoverable brains of any kind...
Died. Mrs. Bessie Rayner Belloc, 95, mother of Hilaire Belloc, famed British writer; in Slindon, Essex, England. An ardent suffragist, she, together with Harriet Martineau and Florence Nightingale, signed the first petition asking for suffrage for women ever presented to Parliament...
SUPERS AND SUPERMENloc and renders Belloc, horrida Belloc...