The Uses of Diversity

A collection of essays by master essayist, G.K. Chesterton, originally published in 1920. Active Table of Contents.

On Seriousness
Lamp-posts
The Spirits
Tennyson
The Domesticity of Detectives
George Meredith
The Irishman
Ireland and the Domestic Drama
The Japanese
Christian Science
The Lawlessness of Lawyers
Our Latin Relations
On Pigs as Pets
The Romance of Rostand
Wishes
The Futurists
The Evolution of Emma
The Pseudo-Scientific Books
The Humour of King Herod
The Silver Goblets
The Duty of the Historian
Questions of Divorce
Mormonism
Pageants and Dress
On Stage Costume
The Yule Log and the Democrat
More Thoughts on Christmas
Dickens Again
Taffy
"Ego et Shavius Meus”
The Plan for a New Universe
George Wyndham
Four Stupidities
On Historical Novels
On Monsters