Belloc by Gill
Cally's Kitchen (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
I have been asked if I know who owns the original of this sketch of Hilaire Belloc by Eril Gill. I'm afraid I don't. Does anybody else?
Belloc
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an impression of Belloc
Chesterton and Friends (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
... are difficult to follow during a late night reading. So my friend took a break to try out some Belloc, and wrote me his impression today: I am now finishing up How the Reformation Happened . Belloc’s writing appeals to me more than Chesterton (at this point). I like the framework of “yes, I wrote that, I meant to, and here’s why it’s true. Idiot [implied].” I also enjoy paragraphs....
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Hilaire Belloc on Fiat Money
西儒 ─ The Western Confucian (Free subscription) | 28/10/2008
The Distrubutist Review 's Richard Aleman informs us that the co-founder of Distributivism concluded that it needed "superhuman virtue in those who manage it as well as superhuman knowledge" — Managed Currency . Subscribe in a reader
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...And also the fact that...
Comments for edroso - HaloScan.com (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
...And also the fact that people aren't going to church so much any more, natch. (q.v. GK Chesterton & Hilaire Belloc, MP.)
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Pubs...
auntie joanna writes (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
...are so much a part of life that it seems impossible to imagine a Britain without them. But start imagining now. A report in today's Daily Telegraph notes that some three dozen pubs in our country are closing every week. This is ghastly. The Telegraph quotes - and rightly - Hilaire Belloc: "When you have lost your inns, you may drown your empty selves, for you will have lost the heart of England."...
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In Transit
Saint Mary Magdalen, Brighton, UK (Free subscription) | 23/11/2008
We used to have people like Chesterton and Belloc coming here when they were in Brighton, Lord Alfred Douglass was a parishioner here in his old age. Today we had Amy Welborn the American Catholic writer and commentator, in transit from the USA to see family in Rome. I hope she caught her connecting flight.
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The Great Gothic Cathedrals of Europe
Recta Ratio (Free subscription) | 12/11/2008
As Belloc said, Europe is the Faith, and the Faith is Europe! Kathleen Battle does the singing.
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Monday, Monday. A poem for the start of Kate’s week
Monster Kid's Rampage (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
Lord Finchley Hilaire Belloc Lord Finchley tried to mend the Electric Light Himself. It struck him dead: And serve him right! It is the business of the wealthy man To give employment to the artisan.
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Hitchcock | The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1926)
Kernunrex (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1926) written by Eliot Stannard , based on the novel by Marie Belloc Lowndes Now I really wish The Mountain Eagle could be found so I could see the transition between The Pleasure Garden and this film. Reading the description in The Alfred Hitchcock Story , it sounds like TME was more in TPG 's vein than The Lodger -- melodrama, romance gone bad, etc. --...
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New Government road safety tales take an Edwardian twist
Daily Mail online | Home (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
The modern-day road safety 'Cautionary Tales' - to be screened in TV adverts - take a leaf out of the verses of Hilaire Belloc who coined such classic but often gruesome children's poems as 'Matilda, Who told lies, and was burned to death', 'Jim, who ran away from his nurse, and was eaten by a lion', 'Henry King, who chewed bits of string and was cut off in dreadful agonies,' and even 'Hildebrand,...
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Shades of the relief of Ladysmith!
The anger of a Quiet Man (Free subscription) | 01/11/2008
I want one! To defend against indirect fire in Iraq the British army are deploying a vehicle mounted version of the Royal Navy 20mm Phallanx system. As it was put by Hilaire Belloc , Whatever happens, we have got The Maxim gun, and they have not.
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On the Eve
David Frum's Diary (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
Monday, November 03, 2008On the EveA long view. It looks like we are headed to a big Democratic victory tomorrow. If so, the following may give a little cynical perspective - it is Hillaire Belloc's assessment of the epic Liberal victory in the British elections of 1906:The accursed power which stands on Privilege(And goes with Women, and Champagne, and Bridge) Broke -and Democracy resumed her...
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A Bargain
Neptunus Lex (Free subscription) | 01/11/2008
Bounty on the head of AQ propaganda chief Abu Jihad al-Masri: $1,000,000 Cost of two Hellfire missles: $138,000 Sending that b@stard straight to hell, at a savings to the tax payer of $986,200? Priceless. “Whatever happens we have got, the Reaper drone and they have not.” - With apologies to Hillaire Belloc
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Joe the Plumber gets help from Chesterbelloc
Second Terrace (Free subscription) | 29/10/2008
... best plumbing technology available (GK was no Luddite). In The Restoration of Property , Hilaire Belloc says that you have been snookered by the Republican corporate culture for no less than seven reasons. Big monopolies and bigger concerns have an unjust -- and truly unChristian -- advantage over you because their proportional cost of operation is cheaper than yours; they are better able...
