A Miscellany of Men
1912
Thirty-eight short essays Chesterton wrote for the Daily News, each hung on a type of man rather than a topic: the Mad Official, the Nameless Man, the Voter and the Two Voices. The method is consistent throughout, taking a small everyday absurdity and following it until it turns into an argument about how England is governed.
- The Suffragist
- The Poet and the Cheese
- The Thing
- The Man Who Thinks Backwards
- The Nameless Man
- The Gardener and the Guinea
- The Voter and the Two Voices
- The Mad Official
- The Enchanted Man
- The Sun Worshipper
- The Wrong Incendiary
- The Free Man
- The Hypothetical Householder
- The Priest of Spring
- The Real Journalist
- The Sentimental Scot
- The Sectarian of Society
- The Fool
- The Conscript and the Crisis
- The Miser and His Friends
- The Mystagogue
- The Red Reactionary
- The Separatist and Sacred Things
- The Mummer
- The Aristocratic 'arry
- The New Theologian
- The Romantic in the Rain
- The False Photographer
- The Sultan
- The Architect of Spears
- The Man on Top
- The Other Kind of Man
- The Mediæval Villain
- The Divine Detective
- The Elf of Japan
- The Chartered Libertine
- The Contented Man
- The Angry Author: His Farewell