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Dale Ahlquist, President of the Political Thinker and Director of American Chesterton Society the British Think-Tank Respublica Dr VOLUME 16 NUMBER 1-2, SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2012 $5.50 Nothing is so remote from us as the thing which is not old enough to be history and not new enough to be news. —G.K. chestertoN, THE END OF THE ARMISTICE An original, never- before-published portrait of G.K. Chesterton, about age 3. The artist is Nathan Branwhite (1813–1894), whose father, Nathan Cooper Branwhite (1775– 1857) was a famous portrait artist, engraver, and miniaturist whose work is in the National Gallery in London. 15 YEARS Anniversary Issue A Solution for Our Social and Economic Crisis ACS Books, a division of the American Distributism is a political economy The Hound of Distributism is a collection Chesterton Society, announced today championing the sustainability of local of essays written by leading Distributist the release of its groundbreaking book economies with the aim of ensuring the authors from around the world. Given on Distributism, the thought-provoking widest ownership of the means of pro- our social and economic crises, this timely idea that what is good for politics and duction. In a world obsessed with growth and rich volume challenges the sterility business is not always good for society, and globalization, Distributism is a so- of our age by recovering the values of the but what is good for the family makes lution to our present socio-economic socio-economic theory of Distributism. good politics and good business. malaise. The Hound of Contributing Authors Include RICHARD ALEMAN, president JOSEPH PEARCE, acclaimed Distributism of The Society for Distributism biographer and editor-in-chief of and managing editor of St. Austin Review Member Price: $ .00 11 The Distributist Review PHILLIP BLOND, Retail Price: $13.95 leading English • DALE AHLQUIST, president of the political thinker and director of American Chesterton Society the British think-tank ResPublica DR. WILLIAM E. FAHEY, president of Thomas More College HON. DR. RACE MATHEWS, former Australian MP and cabinet minister PHILIPPE MAXENCE, editor-in- chief of L’Homme Nouveau, the French Catholic newspaper JOHN MÉDAILLE, author of the bestseller, Toward a Truly Free •Get the KindleAC S Market version atBOOKS amazon.com THOMAS STORCK, celebrated author serving on the editorial board for The Chesterton Review ACS Order online at BOOKS www.chesterton.org or mail to: 4117 Pebblebrook Circle Minneapolis, MN 55437 ACS BOOKS Or call TOLL FREE 800-343-2425 TABLE OF CONTENTS Volume 16 Number 1-2, September/October 2012 2 | TREMENDOUS TRIFLES 24 | TALES OF THE SHORT BOW 38 | THE DETECTION CLUB 3 | LUNACY & LETTERS Putting Out the Trash In the Mail BY JAMES G. BRUEN JR. BY JAMES G. BRUEN JR. 5 | EDITORIAL Dragon’s Gold Three Cases at Once Fifteen Years of Gilbert BY KELSEY MCINTYRE BY CHRIS CHAN Magazine 27 | ALL IS GRIST Death Stalks the Countryside 6 | STRAWS IN THE WIND BY CHRIS CHAN It’s Not Funny BY JOE CAMPBELL A Sermon on Cheapness 44 | BOOK REVIEWS BY G.K. CHESTERTON When the Spirit Moves The Ballad of the White Horse 8 | SCHALL ON CHESTERTON BY PAT COLWELL REVIEWED BY DALE AHLQUIST “The Light of a Strange Star” BY JAMES V. SCHALL, S.J. Why Chesterton Is—and Should Things Seen and Unseen: A Be—Banned From Universities Theologian’s Notebook 10 | ALARMS AND DISCURSIONS BY PETER MAURICE REVIEWED BY DAVID PAUL DEAVEL An Interview with Ralph Wood 30 | VARIED TYPES 47 | FEAR OF FILM BY DALE AHLQUIST Aliens R Us Hugo 13 | THE EVERLASTING CHESTERTON BY VICTORIA DARKEY REVIEWED BY ART LIVINGSTON The Gift of a Dandelion 32 | THE FLYING INN 48 | BALLADE OF GILBERT BY STRATFORD CALDECOTT My Grandfather Ballade of An Anti-Puritan 14 | CONFERENCE REPORT BY DAVID BERESFORD BY G.K. CHESTERTON Alive in the Desert 33 | THE FLYING STARS 49 | SHORTER HISTORY OF ENGLAND BY JOSEPH GRABOWSKI The Roller Coaster Conference Chesterton and the Case A Roundup of Talks BY NANCY CARPENTIER BROWN of King Richard III BY GRETTELYN NYPAVER BY JEANNE CARR 34 | JOGGING WITH G.K. Clerihew Winners As Part of the Family 50 | NEWS WITH VIEWS 20 | ROLLING ROAD BY ROBERT MOORE-JUMONVILLE 52 | THE DISTRIBUTIST Mars 35 | ALL I SURVEY BY DALE AHLQUIST Sheen’s Fraternity The Land of Mooreeffoc BY RICHARD ALEMAN 21 | ETHICS OF ELFLAND BY DAVID FAGERBERG 55 | CHESTERton’s MAIL BAG BY REESE PARQUETTE 36 | THE SIGNATURE OF MAN Contraception, Capitalism, 22 | MISCELLANY OF MEN The Pre-Raphaelites and Science BY G.K. CHESTERTON Two Hundred Years Early 56 | LETTER TO AMERICA BY DAVID PAUL DEAVEL 37 | CHESTERTON UNIVERSITY Dictatorships BY G.K. CHESTERTON Godless BY DALE AHLQUIST PUBLISHER: Dale Ahlquist, President, ACS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Sean P. Dailey ART DIRECTOR: Ted Schluenderfritz LITERARY EDITOR: Therese Warmus COPY EDITOR: Susan Meister SENIOR WRITER: Art Livingston CONTRIBUTING EDITORS: Richard Aleman, David Beresford, James G. Bruen Jr., Nancy Carpentier Brown, Joe Campbell, John C. Chalberg, Christopher Chan, David Paul Deavel, David W. 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The views expressed by Gilbert Magazine contributors are not necessarily those of the publisher, the editors, or the American Chesterton Society. Copyright ©2012 by The American Chesterton Society. Gilbert Magazine Outlining Sanity 1 TREMENDOUS TRIFLES by Sean P. Dailey n September the Chesterton Academy was named one G.K. Chesterton published his 28th book, of America’s top fifty Catholic schools by the National A Miscellany of Men, a collection of Catholic High School Honor Roll. The Honor Roll, 100 YEARS AGO essays gathered from his columns for the sponsored by the Cardinal Newman Society, recog- nizes and encourages excellence in Catholic secondary Daily News. Here we find the gardener, I the journalist, the miser, the bureaucrat, the Sultan, education, stressing academic excellence, Catholic identity, and civic education. “To be ranked among the nation’s top the Mummer, the detective and the fool. And also the fifty Catholic high schools in just our fifth year of opera- Angry Author who tells how to engage properly in tion is a great honor,” said Headmaster John Niemann. the rules of controversy, such as: “Don’t say, ‘There The American Chesterton Society thanks you, our faith- is no true creed; for each creed believes itself right ful donors, for supporting exemplary projects like the and the others wrong.’ Probably one of the creeds is Chesterton Academy and asks for your continuing assis- right and the others are wrong. Diversity does show tance. Donor generosity helped the ACS reach its goal in that most of the views must be wrong. It does not by the Chesterton Challenge, raising over $48,000. Send your the faintest logic show that they all must be wrong.” check to the American Chesterton Society or donate online. We deeply appreciate your help. • Talks from the 31st Annual American Chesterton Society Conference are now available. See the ad on page 9, or check •You don’t have to travel far to see chesterton.org for details. the real thing. Just fifty miles north of New Orleans is Ponchatoula, • The American Chesterton Society Rome Pilgrimage, home to a massive statue of G.K. originally scheduled for November 12–20, has been post- Chesterton authentic right down poned until March, 2013. The winner of the raffle and to his disheveled hair and mashed two tickets to Rome is Darren Szwajkowski, who runs the hat. The bronze likeness created by dvocate) Cincinnati Chesterton Society. Darren and his wife Christy Milwaukee sculptor David Wanner A he promised each other that if they won the drawing, they stands in Chesterton Square, an T would make a gift of the trip to their mothers, who have event center built in 2008 by Dr. ingle ( never been to Rome. Bravo! Robert Benson. Wanting a statue to H • Chicago’s Provision Theatre Co. begins its 2012-13 complete the project, Benson con- season with Shaw vs. Chesterton: The Debate, that will run tacted Dale Ahlquist, who in turn from Saturday, Sept. 8, through Sunday, Oct. 28. For more introduced him to Wanner. information log on to www.provisiontheater.org. GM film Photo by Derick Our heartiest congratula- critic Art Livingston will be taking part in an onstage dis- • cussion each Sunday after the matinée performance. Get tions to GM contributing editor your tickets in advance. David Beresford, new editor of the Canadian monthly Catholic Insight. “Every genera- • An art collector in New Orleans, Louisiana, has an im- tion of Catholics gets the opportunity to be apostolic,” Dr. postor on his mantelpiece. Intrepid GM contributing editor Beresford remarked in The Catholic Register. “The previous Chris Chan spotted an ad for a bust generation doesn’t hand us the job finished or even half-do- of G.K. Chesterton on the Crescent ne. We get to start at ground zero again, to do it in the same City Auction Gallery’s Web site. Two way as the apostles.” He began his career in publishing many difficulties presented themselves: the years ago with a newsletter on Distributism.
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