A Century of the Catholic Essay: Contents & Links

by Fr. Raphael H. Gross, C.PP.S

This project began in February 2025, and is not yet complete. Each title will become a link as it is scanned, corrected and added to our library.

PART ONE

The Texture of Life

• Alice Meynell, The Rhythm of Life
• John Henry Newman, Definition of a Gentleman
• Agnes Repplier, Goodness and Gayety
• Patrick A. Sheehan, The Great Mystery
• Louise Imogen Guiney, On the Delights of an Incognito
• Hilaire Belloc, On Lying

Fellow-travelers

• Leonard Feeney, An Introduction to Michael Burt
• Charles Fairbanks, Josephine: Girlhood and Girls
• Alice Meynell, Children in Midwinter
• Maurice Baring, Lady Macbeth’s Trouble
• Helen Parry Eden, The Pensioner of the Pied Brothers
• Francis X. Talbot, A Date for Saturday Night

Length and Breadth

• Hilaire Belloc, The Vision of the Alps
• Seumas MacManus, A Day in the Bog
• Joyce Kilmer, The Great Nickel Adventure
• Séan O’Faoláin, Romantic Sligo
• Charles Warren Stoddard, The Chapel of the Palms

Amenities

• Francis Thompson, The Fourth Order of Humanity
• G. K. Chesterton, On Lying in Bed
• Louise Imogen Guiney, The Puppy: A Portrait
• Padraic Colum, A Meditation on Cakes
• Agnes Repplier, Agrippina
• D. B. Wyndham Lewis, Of Pleasant Noises

PART TWO

Culture and Education

• John Henry Newman, Knowledge and Learning
• Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley on the Education of the Young
• Francis J. Sheed, Reading and Education
• Joel Chandler Harris, Billy Sanders Discusses Fathers and Sons
• John L. Spalding, The Love of Excellence

Literature and Arts

• Alfred Noyes, The Unrecognized Air
• Eric Gill, Art and Prudence
• Joseph Conrad, Preface to The Nigger of the Narcissus
• Ronald Knox, On Humour and Satire
• Coventry Patmore, Imagination
• Aubrey De Vere, Literature in Its Social Aspects

Biography and Criticism

• G. K. Chesterton, Alfred the Great
• Lionel Johnson, Clarence Mangan
• James J. Daly, Charles Waterton: Naturalist
• Sister M. Madeleva, Chaucer’s Nuns
• C. C. Martindale, Hermann the Cripple

The Church and the Modern World

• James M. Gillis, There are No Atheists
• Christopher Dawson, Christian Freedom
• Orestes Brownson, War and Loyalty
• Fulton J. Sheen, The Conspiracy against Life
• Bertram C. A. Windle, The Everlasting Man
• Robert Hugh Benson, Catholicism and the Future

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