ABSTRACT
In 1904 G .K. Chesterton was thirty and an emerging man of letters. After studying art at the Slade School, where he was unhappy and did little work, he
had discovered that his real talents were for writing. In the 1890s there were many periodicals to provide outlets for a clever and energetic young man who
wanted to live by his pen. Chesterton took advantage of them and soon made a
name as a reviewer and essayist; before long he was contributing regular
columns to two Liberal papers: the weekly Speaker and the Daily News, the
newspaper which Dickens had founded.
