A CHESTERTON CALENDAR _A Chesterton Calendar_ Compiled from the Writings of 'G.K.C.' Both in Verse and in Prose. With a section apart for the Moveable Feasts. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. Ltd. Dryden House, Gerrard Street, London, W. 1911 PREFATORY NOTE It will be found that almost all Mr. G. K. Chesterton's books have been utilized in the making of this Calendar. A word of acknowledgment is due to the various publishers for their courtesy in permitting this: to Messrs. Grant Richards, Arthur L. Humphreys, J. W. Arrowsmith, John Lane, J. M. Dent & Co., Macmillan & Co., Duckworth & Co., Harper & Co., Cassell & Co., and Methuen & Co. Recourse has been had also to the files of the 'Daily News,' the 'Illustrated London News,' and other journals to which Mr. Chesterton has been a contributor. The present publishers feel they are peculiarly indebted to Mr. Chesterton himself for his kindness in allowing them to include certain verses from poems which have not yet been printed _in extenso_ elsewhere. JANUARY Mere light sophistry is the thing that I happen to despise most of all things, and it is perhaps a wholesome fact that this is the thing of which I am generally accused. '_Orthodoxy._' NEW YEAR'S DAY The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. Unless a man starts on the strange assumption that he has never existed before, it is quite certain that he will never exist afterwards. Unless a man be born again, he shall by no means enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. '_Daily News._' JANUARY 2nd There is no such thing as fighting on the winning side: one fights to find out which is the winning side. '_What's Wrong with the World._' JANUARY 3rd