The Common Man

The Common Man written by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

1950.

• First Part

1. The Common Man

2. A Midsummer Night's Dream

3. On Reading

4. Monsters and the Middle Ages

5. What Novelists Are For

6. The Song of Roland

7. The Superstition of School

8. The Romance of a Rascal

9. Paying for Patriotism

10. The Pantomime

11. Reading the Riddle

12. A Tale of Two Cities

• Second Part

1. God and Goods

2. From Meredith to Rupert Brooke

3. The Dangers of Necromancy

4. Giotto and St. Francis

5. The New Groove

6. The Real Dr. Johnson

7. Rabelaisian Regrets

8. The Hound of Heaven

9. The Frivolous Man

10. Two Stubborn Pieces of Iron

• Third Part

1. Henry James

2. The Strange Talk of Two Victorians

3. Laughter

4. Tales from Tolstoi

5. The New Case for Catholic Schools

6. Vulgarity

7. The Revival of Philosophy - Why?

8. Vandalism

9. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

10. The Erastian on the Establishment

11. The End of the Moderns

• Fourth Part

1. Walter De La Mare

2. The Meaning of Metre

3. Concerning a Strange City

4. The Epitaph of Pierpont Morgan

5. The New Bigotry

6. Books for Boys

7. The Outline of Liberty

8. A Note on Nudism

9. Consulting the Encyclopedia

10. If I had only one sermon to preach

11. If Don John of Austria had married Mary Queen of Scots