Remembering Belloc

Fr. James V. Schall teaches political philosophy at Georgetown University and a prolific essayist and author. Among his many works are the following from St. Augustine’s Press: The Regensburg Lecture, Sum Total of Human Happiness, The Modern Age, and The Classical Moment.
Rev. C. John McCloskey III is a Research Fellow of the Faith and Reason Center in Washington, D.C. He is the author of The Essential Belloc and of the well-known Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan

Acknowledgments
Preface:
Part 1
Chapter 1        “On the Character of Enduring Things”
Chapter 2        On Endurance and Fortitude
Chapter 3        At the Lake of Tiberias
Chapter 4        On Fame
Chapter 5        “A Place Where I Have Never Yet Seen”
Part 2
Chapter 6        The Path to Rome: Belloc’s Walk a Century Later
Chapter 7        Permanence
Chapter 8        On the Vanity of Learned Men
Chapter 9        Ars Taedica
Chapter 10      On the Usefulness of the New Year
Part 3
Chapter 11      “Islam Will Not Be the Loser”
Chapter 12      A Certain Loss
Chapter 13      On Thinking Continually of Those in Beatitude
Chapter 14      On Remembering “A Remaining Christmas”@
Chapter 15      On Being Close to Things Primary
Part 4
Chapter 16      On Towns and Places
Chapter 17      The Fight for Good Things
Chapter 18      On Irony as the “Avenger of Truth”
Chapter 19      Belloc’s Mrs. Markham on the Americans
Chapter 20      “Ultimate Knowledge upon the Ultimate Realities”
Part 5
Chapter 21      Belloc on the Metaphysics of Walking
Chapter 22      On the Loneliest Month
Chapter 23      “In the Presence of So Wonderful a Thing”
Chapter 24      “What We Have Long Called England”
Part 6
Chapter 25      The Charm of Belloc: “On Caring Too Much”
Chapter 26      October Thirtieth, 1902
Chapter 27      In Persuit of Nobody
Chapter 28      Belloc’s Infamous Phrase
Chapter 29      Harbour in the North
Chapter 30      The Unsuccessful Man
Conclusion
Bibliography