First and Last (Belloc)

by Hilaire Belloc

• On Weighing Anchor
• The Reveillon
• On Cheeses
• The Captain of Industry
• The Inventor
• The Views of England
• The Lunatic
• The Inheritance of Humour
• The Old Gentleman's Opinions
• On Historical Evidence
• The Absence of the Past
• St. Patrick
• The Lost Things
• On the Reading of History
• The Victory
• Reality
• On the Decline of the Book
• Jose Maria de Heredia
• Normandy and the Normans
• The Old Things
• The Battle of Hastings
• The Roman Roads in Picardy
• The Reward of Letters
• The Eye-openers
• The Public
• On Entries
• Companions of Travel
• On the Sources of Rivers
• On Error
• The Great Sight
• The Decline of a State
• On Past Greatness
• Mr. The Duke: The Man of Malplaquet
• The Game of Cards
• "King Lear"
• The Excursion
• The Tide
• On a Great Wind
• The Letter
• The Regret
• The End of the World