Hilaire Belloc 
On Everything 

A collection of famous English essays.

Contents
On song — On an empty house — The landfall — The little old man — The long march — On saturnalia — A little conversation in Herefordshire — On the rights of property — The economist — A little conversation in Carthage — The strange companion — The visitor — A reconstruction of the past — The reasonable press — Asmodeus — The death of the comic author — On certain manners and customs — The statesman — The duel — On a battle, or "journalism, " or "points of view" — A descendant of William Shakespeare — On the approach to western England — The Weald — On London and the houses in it — On old towns — A crossing of the hills — The barber — On high places — On some little horses — On streams and rivers — On two manuals — On fantastic books — The unfortunate man — The contented man — The missioner — The dream — The silence of the battlefields — Novissima hora — On rest.