A Century of the Catholic Essay: Contents & Links

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

Description

This is the table of contents page which links to the individual essays added to the CatholicCulture.org library from the collection published as A Century of the Catholic Essay in 1946. There are 45 essays in eight sub-sections. We are gradually filling in the essays as we scan and edit them over time. Each title will become a link when its corresponding essay is available.

Larger Work

A Century of the Catholic Essay

Publisher & Date

Books for Libraries Press, New York, 1946

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

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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