G. K. Chesterton 
All Things Considered (Annotated) 

• This edition includes the following editor’s introduction: G. K. Chesterton, the man beyond the writer

First published in 1915, “All Things Considered” collects more than thirty essays that English author G. K. Chesterton wrote as columns for the
London Daily News in the years before World War I.



The contents of “All Things Considered” are quintessential Chesterton, covering subjects from poetry to patriotism, anonymity to impartiality, from demagogues to mystagogues, from science to religion, from phonetic spelling to running after one’s hat.

But regardless of the topic, each of the essays in ‘All Things Considered’ is the usual Chesterton masterpiece, tempting the reader to track down even more of the 4, 000 newspaper columns penned by Chesterton during his career. G. K. Chesterton is well known as a novelist, essayist, storyteller, poet, philosopher, theologian, historian, artist, and critic. He’s less well-known as a journalist these days, yet all evidence indicates that he viewed his work for the various newspapers as his primary raison-de-etre. Therefore anyone interested in exploring the works of this colossal genius should include a sampling of his newspaper columns, as featured in ‘All Things Considered, ‘ along with all of his other brilliant books.