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MARY WHITE By WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE
NIAGARA FALLS By Rupert Brooke
THE ALMOST PERFECT STATE By Don Marquis
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"THE MAN-O'-WAR'S 'ER 'USBAND" By David W. Bone
THE MARKET By William Mcfee
HOLY IRELAND By Joyce Kilmer
A FAMILIAR PREFACE By Joseph Conrad
ON DRAWING By A. P. Herbert
O. HENRY By O. W. Firkins
THE MOWING OF A FIELD By Hilaire Belloc
THE STUDENT LIFE By WILLIAM OSLER
THE DECLINE OF THE DRAMA By Stephen Leacock
AMERICA AND THE ENGLISH TRADITION By Harry Morgan Ayres
THE RUSSIAN QUARTER By Thomas Burke
A WORD FOR AUTUMN By A. A. Milne
"A CLERGYMAN" By Max Beerbohm
SAMUEL BUTLER: DIOGENES OF THE VICTORIANS By Stuart P. Sherman
BED-BOOKS AND NIGHT-LIGHTS By H. M. Tomlinson
THE PRECEPT OF PEACE By Louise Imogen Guiney
ON LYING AWAKE AT NIGHT By Stewart Edward White
A WOODLAND VALENTINE By Marian Storm
THE ELEMENTS OF POETRY By George Santayana
NOCTURNE By Simeon Strunsky
BEER AND CIDER By George Saintsbury
A FREE MAN'S WORSHIP By Bertrand Russell
SOME HISTORIANS By Philip Guedalla
WINTER MIST By Robert Palfrey Utter
TRIVIA By Logan Pearsall Smith
BEYOND LIFE By James Branch Cabell
THE FISH REPORTER By Robert Cortes Holliday
SOME NONSENSE ABOUT A DOG By Harry Esty Dounce
THE FIFTY-FIRST DRAGON By Heywood Broun
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Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc (27 July 1870 – 16 July 1953) was an Anglo-French writer and historian. He was one of the most prolific writers in England during the early twentieth century. He was known as a writer, orator, poet, sailor, satirist, man of letters, soldier and political activist. His Catholic faith had a strong impact on his works. He was President of the Oxford Union and later MP for Salford from 1906 to 1910. He was a noted disputant, with a number of long-running feuds, but also widely regarded as a humane and sympathetic man. Belloc became a naturalised British subject in 1902, while retaining his French citizenship.
His poetry encompassed comic verses for children and religious poetry. His widely sold Cautionary Tales for Children included "Jim, who ran away from his nurse, and was eaten by a lion" and "Matilda, who told lies and was burnt to death". He also collaborated with G. K. Chesterton on a number of works.
