Of all futures, the future of literature and its professors is the least predictable. We have all, so to speak, turned a corner since August, 1914, but we have not all turned the same way. Chesterton would seem to have felt the great change early in the war. Soon he will break his silence, and we shall know whether we have amongst us a giant with strength renewed or a querulous Nonconformist Crusader, agreeing with no man, while claiming to speak for every man. Early in the course of this study a distinction was drawn between Christians and Crusaders. Chesterton has been throughout his career essentially a Crusader. He set out to put wrongs to rights in the same spirit; in much the same spirit, too, he incidentally chivvied about the Jews he met in his path, just as the Crusaders had done. He fought for the Holy Sepulchre, and gained it. Like the Crusaders, he professed orthodoxy, and, like them, fell between several "orthodoxies." He shared their visions and their faith, so far as they had any. But one thing is true of all Crusaders, they are not necessarily Christians. And there is that about Chesterton which sometimes makes me wonder whether, after all, he is not "a child of the French Revolution" in a sense he himself does not suspect. He has cursed the barren fig-tree of modern religious movements. But there comes a suspicion that he denies too much; that from between those supple sentences and those too plausible arguments one may catch a glimpse of the features of a mocking spirit. Chesterton has given us the keenest enjoyment, and he has provoked thought, even in the silly atheist. We all owe him gratitude, but no two readers of his works are likely to agree as to the causes of their gratitude. That, in itself, is a tribute. Wherefore let it be understood that in writing this study I have been speaking entirely for myself, and if any man think me misguided, inappreciative, hypercritical, frivolous, or anything else, why, he is welcome. FOOTNOTE: [3] _All Things Considered._ BIBLIOGRAPHY (TO JULY, 1915) WORKS 1900. _Greybeards at Play._ Brimley Johnson. Cheaper edition, 1902. _The Wild Knight._ Grant Richards. Second edition, Brimley Johnson, 1905. Enlarged edition, Dent, 1914. 1901. _The Defendant._ Brimley Johnson. Second enlarged edition, 1902. Cheap edition, in Dent's Wayfarer's Library, 1914. 1902. _Twelve Types._ A. L. Humphreys. Partly reprinted as _Five Types_, 1910, same publisher. Cheap edition, 1911. _G. F. Watts._ Duckworth. In Popular Library of Art. Reissued at higher price, 1914. 1903. _Robert Browning._ In English Men of Letters Series. Macmillan. 1904. _The Patriotic Idea._ In _England a Nation_. Edited by Lucien Oldershaw. Brimley Johnson. _The Napoleon of Notting Hill._ John Lane. With 7 full-page illustrations by W. Graham Robertson and a Map of the Seat of War.