Hilaire Belloc bibliography


This is a chronological bibliography of books and a general bibliography of articles by the author Hilaire Belloc. His books of verse went through many different editions, and are not comprehensively covered.

To 1909

Verses and Sonnets, poems.The Bad Child's Book of Beasts poems, Basil Temple Blackwood illustratorMore Beasts for Worse Children poems, B. T. B. illustratorThe Modern Traveller poems, B. T. B. illustratorDanton: A Study Paris, Its Sites, Monuments and History with Maria Hornor Lansdale A Moral Alphabet poems, B. T. B. illustratorParis Lambkin's Remains Robespierre The Path to Rome non-fiction The Great Inquiry; faithfully reported by Hilaire Belloc and ornamented with sharp cuts drawn on the spot by G. K. Chesterton Caliban's Guide to Letters, or: The Aftermath; or, Gleanings from a busy life. Called upon the outer cover, for purposes of sale, Caliban's Guide to Letters, etc. The Romance of Tristan and Iseult translation of Joseph Bédier's 1900 workEmmanuel Burden, Merchant novelAvril: Essays on the French Renaissance criticismThe Old Road: from Canterbury to Winchester Hills and the Sea Sussex illustrations by Wilfrid BallEsto Perpetua: Algerian Studies and Impressions travelCautionary Tales for Children poems, B. T. B. illustratorThe Historic Thames Mr. Clutterbuck's Election novelOn Nothing and Kindred Subjects essaysOn Everything essaysThe Eye-Witness A Change in the Cabinet novelMarie Antoinette non-fiction

1910 – 1919

Pongo and the Bull novelCatholicism and Socialism: Second Series essays, with Joseph Rickaby and others essaysOn Something essaysVerses The Party System non-fiction More Peers poems, B. T. B. illustratorThe Four Men: A Farrago novelThe French Revolution non-fictionThe Girondin novelFirst and Last essaysBritish Battles : Blenheim ''Turcoing, Crécy, Waterloo, Malplaquet, Poitiers ; as Six British Battles The Servile State politics/economicsThe Green Overcoat novelThe River of London with "illustrations reproduced from oil paintings by John Muirhead"This and That and the Other essaysThe History of England, from the First Invasion by the Romans to the Accession of William and Mary in 1688 with John Lingard, 11 volumes, and later versions in the 1920sWarfare in England The Stane Street: a monograph illustrated by William HydeThe Book of the Bayeux Tapestry Land & Water The World's War : Special Articles by Hilaire Belloc, A. H. Pollen &c. &c. magazine, also in hard coversThe Two Maps of Europe, and Other Aspects of the Great War non-fictionA General Sketch of the European War, the First Phase A Picked Company, being a selection from the writings of H. Belloc, ed. E. V. LucasAt the Sign of the Lion essays The Last Days of the French Monarchy A General Sketch of the European War, the Second Phase The Free Press''

1920 – 1929

non-fictionThe House of Commons and Monarchy The Jews later editions 1928, 1937The Mercy of Allah The Road The Contrast i.e. the contrast between Europeans and AmericansOn essaysEconomics for Helen distributismThe Cruise of the Nona This and That and the Other essaysMr. Petre novel, with 22 drawings by G. K. ChestertonThe French Revolution Miniatures of French History Napoleon's Campaign of 1812 and the Retreat from Moscow A Companion to Mr. Wells's "Outline of History" Mr. Belloc Still Objects The Catholic Church and History Short Talks with the Dead and Others The Emerald of Catherine the Great with 21 drawings by G. K. ChestertonEssays of Today and Yesterday Mrs. Markham's New History of England being an Introduction for Young People to the Current History and Institutions of Our Time illustrations by Hester SainsburyThe Highway and its Vehicles edited by Geoffrey HolmeAugustan Books of Modern Poetry: Hilaire Belloc Oliver Cromwell non-fictionThe Haunted House novel, with drawings by G. K. ChestertonTowns of Destiny Do We Agree?: A Debate Between G. K. Chesterton and Bernard Shaw, with Hilaire Belloc in the Chair Many Cities travelM. Wells et Dieu. Des poèmes et des essais with Maurice Beerblock, A. Beucler, Pierre Colle, Elie Gothchaux, Robert Honnert, Georges Hugnet, Mercédès de Gournay, Max Jacob, Jean de Menasce, Eugenio d'Ors, Paul SabonJames II non-fictionBut Soft - We Are Observed! novel How the Reformation Happened Belinda: A Tale of Affection in Youth and Age novel A Conversation with an Angel: and Other Essays The Chanty of the Nona Ariel Poems, #9The Missing Masterpiece novel with 41 drawings by G. K. ChestertonRichelieu: A Study non-fictionSurvivals and New Arrivals: The Old and New Enemies of the Catholic Church non-fictionThe Catholic Church and History
  • ''Joan of Arc''

1930 – 1939

The Man Who Made Gold novelWolsey non-fictionNew Cautionary Tales poems, pictures by Nicolas BentleyEssays of a Catholic Layman in England A Conversation with a Cat: and others Cranmer non-fictionOn Translation: the Taylorian Lecture, 1931 One Hundred and One Ballades with E. C. Bentley, G. K. Chesterton, C.K. Scott-Moncrieff, Winifred Agar, Sidney Allnutt, Maurice Baring, Cecil Chesterton, Geoffrey Howard, Diggory King, and H. S. MackintoshNine Nines or Novenas from a Chinese Litany of Odd Numbers, illustrations by Thomas DerrickNapoleon non-fictionThe Postmaster-General novel, drawings by G. K. ChestertonSaulieu of the Morvan The Question and the Answer Ladies and Gentlemen: For Adults Only and Mature at That verses, pictures by Nicolas BentleyAn Heroic Poem in Praise of Wine Charles the First, King of England William the Conqueror Below Bridges The Tactics and Strategy of the Great Duke of Marlborough How We Got The Bible pamphletA Shorter History of England Milton non-fictionHilaire Belloc Characters of the Reformation non-fiction, portraits by Jean CharlotThe Restoration of Property non-fictionThe Hedge and the Horse with illustrations by G. K. Chesterton The Battleground: Syria and Palestine, The Seedplot of Religion The County of Sussex The Crisis Of Our Civilisation non-fictionThe Crusades: The World's Debate An Essay on the Nature of Contemporary England Stories, Essays, Poems edited by Ernest RhysMonarchy: A Study of Louis XIV Return to the Baltic The Great Heresies The Church and Socialism reprint of undated first edition of 1909The Case of Dr. Coulton On Sailing the Sea: A Collection of Seagoing Writings selected by W. N. Roughead

1940 – 1953

The Last Rally: A Story of Charles II non-fictionOn the Place of Gilbert Chesterton in English Letters ; Spanish translation: Un gran escritor ingles G.K. Chesterton The Catholic and the War The Silence Of The Sea and Other Essays Elizabethan Commentary: Creature of Circumstance Places Sonnets and Verse The Romance of Tristan and Iseult by Joseph Bedier translated by Belloc and Paul RosenfeldSelected Essays of Hilaire Belloc edited by J. B. MortonThe Alternative: An Article Originally Written During Mr. Belloc's Parliamentary Days, For "St. George's Review" and Since Revised distributist pamphlet, original version published under title: An Examination of SocialismHilaire Belloc: An Anthology of his Prose and Verse selected by W. N. RougheadWorld Conflict bookletSongs of the South Country selected poems

Posthumous

Belloc Essays edited by Anthony ForsterThe Verse of Hilaire Belloc edited W. N. RougheadOne Thing and Another. A Miscellany from his Uncollected Essays selected by Patrick Cahill Collected Verse with an introduction, etc. by Ronald KnoxLetters From Hilaire Belloc selected by Robert SpeaightAdvice Hilaire Belloc's advice on wine, food and other mattersComplete Verse, including Sonnets and Verse, Cautionary Verses, the Modern Traveller Belloc: A Biographical Anthology edited by Herbert Van Thal and Jane Soames NickersonHilaire Belloc's Prefaces, Written for Fellow Authors editor J. A. De ChantignyDistributist Perspectives: Essays On Economics of Justice and Charity with Herbert W. Shove, George Maxwell, G. K. Chesterton, Arthur J. Penty, H. J. Massingham, Eric Gill, and Harold RobbinsCautionary Tales for Children illustrated by Edward GoreyThe Way Out introduction by Robert Phillips

Articles

The Irish Monthly, Vol. 19, No. 219, Sep. 1891.The Contemporary Review, Vol. LXIII, June 1893.
  • In Essays in Liberalism, Cassell & Company, 1897.The Catholic World, Vol. LXVI, October 1897/March 1898.The Living Age, Vol. IX, October/December 1900.Scribner's, Vol. XXXIV, No. 2, August 1903.
  • "The Cambridge History of the French Revolution," The Bookman, Vol. XXVI, No. 156, September 1904.The International Quarterly, Vol. X, October 1904/January 1905.
  • "The Young Napoleon," The Bookman, Vol. XXVIII, No. 166, July 1905.
  • "Napoleon II," The Bookman, Vol. XXIX, No. 170, November 1905.
  • "Catholics and the Education Bill" 1906.The International Quarterly, Vol. XII, October 1905/January 1906.
  • "Contemporary France," The Bookman, Vol. XXIX, No. 173, February 1906.The New Age, Vol. II, No. 6, 7 December 1907.
  • "Limits of Direct Taxation," The Contemporary Review, Vol. XCIII, February 1908.The New Age, Vol. II, No. 15, 8 February 1908.The New Age, Vol. II, No. 21, 21 March 1908.The Dublin Review, Vol. CXLII, No. 284-285, January/April 1908.The New Age, Vol. III, No. 15, 8 August 1908.The Dublin Review, Vol. CXLV, No. 290-291, July/October 1909.The Dublin Review, Vol. CXLVI, No. 292-293, January/April 1910.The Dublin Review, Vol. CXLVI, No. 292-293, January/April 1910.
  • as part of "The Home University Library of Modern Knowledge," Henry Holt and Company, 1911The Nineteenth Century and After, Vol. LXIX, January/June 1911.The Dublin Review, Vol. CXLVIII, No. 296-297, January/April 1911.The Catholic World, Vol. XCII, October 1910/March 1911.
  • ," The Catholic World, Vol. XCII, October 1910/March 1911.The Catholic World, Vol. XCII, October 1910/March 1911.The Catholic World, Vol. XCII, October 1910/March 1911.The Catholic World, Vol. XCII, October 1910/March 1911.
  • , The Catholic World, Vol. XCIII, April/September 1911.The Catholic World, Vol. XCIII, April/September 1911.The Catholic World, Vol. XCIII, No. 556, April/September 1911.The Dublin Review, Vol. CXLIX, No. 298-299, July/October 1911.The Dublin Review, Vol. CXLIX, No. 298-299, July/October 1911.
  • , The Catholic World, Vol. XCIV, October 1911/March 1912.
  • , The Catholic World, Vol. XCIV, October 1911/March 1912.The Dublin Review, Vol. CL, No. 300-301, January/April 1912.
  • "On a Very Special Calling," The Century Magazine, Vol. LXXXIV, No. 1, May 1912.
  • "The Fairy Omnibus," The Century Magazine, Vol. LXXXIV, No. 3, July 1912.
  • "On the Secret of Diplomatic Success," The Century Magazine, Vol. LXXXIV, No°. 6, October 1912.Everyman, Vol. I, No. 7, 29 November 1912.
  • In A Century of Great Essays, J. M. Dent & Sons, 1913.Everyman, Vol. I, No. 23, 21 March 1913.Everyman, Vol. II, No. 27, 18 April 1913.The Dublin Review, Vol. CLIV, No. 308-309, January/April 1914.
  • ,,,, The Catholic World, Vol. XCVIII, October 1913/March 1914;, Vol. XCIX, April/September 1914.The Dublin Review, Vol. CLV, No. 310-311, July/October 1914.
  • , Wayfarers Library, J.M. Dent & Sons, 1914.
  • "The Geography of the War," The Geographical Journal, Vol. 45, No. 1, Jan. 1915.
  • "High Lights of the French Revolution," The Century Magazine, Vol. LXXXVIII, No. 5, September 1914; Part II, No. 6, October 1914; Part III, Vol. LXXXIX, No. 2, December 1914; Part IV, N°. 4, February 1915; Part V, N°. 6, April 1915.The Dublin Review, Vol. CLVI, No. 312-313, January/April 1915.The New Age, Vol. XIX, No. 8, 1916, pp. 174–175.The Dublin Review, Vol. CLIX, No. 314-315, July/October 1916.The New Age, Vol. XX, No. 6, 1916, pp. 125–127.The New Age, Vol. XX, No. 7, 1916, pp. 150–151.The New Age, Vol. XX, No. 8, 1916, pp. 173–175.The New Age, Vol. XX, No. 9, 1916, pp. 197–199.The New Age, Vol. XX, No. 10, 1917, pp. 221–222.The New Age, Vol. XX, No. 10, 1917, p. 237.The New Age, Vol. XX, No. 11, 1917, pp. 245–246.The New Age, Vol. XX, No. 12, 1917, pp. 271–272.The New Age, Vol. XX, No. 13, 1917, p. 294.The New Age, Vol. XX, No. 14, 1917, pp. 317–318.The New Age, Vol. XX, No. 22, 1917, pp. 509–510.The Catholic World, Vol. CV, April/September 1917.The Catholic World, Vol. CV, April/September 1917.
  • "A Preface to Gibbon," Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, Vol. 6, No. 24, Dec. 1917.Land & Water, Vol. LXX, No. 2904, January 1918.Land & Water, Vol. LXX, No. 2905, January 1918.
  • ;, Land and Water, No. 2909, February 1918.Land and Water, Vol. LXX, No. 2910, February 1918.Land and Water, Vol. LXX, No. 2911, February 1918.Land and Water, Vol. LXX, No. 2911, February 1918.Land and Water, Vol. LXX, No. 2912, February 1918.Land and Water, Vol. LXX, No. 2913, March 1918.Land and Water, Vol. LXX, No. 2914, March 1918.Land and Water, Vol. LXX, No. 2916, March 1918;, Vol. LXXI, No. 2917, April 1918.Land and Water, Vol. LXXI, No. 2918, April 1918.Land and Water, Vol. LXXI, No. 2919, April 1918.Land and Water, Vol. LXXI, No. 2921, May 1918.Land and Water, Vol. LXXI, No. 2925, May 1918.Land and Water, Vol. LXXI, No. 2926, June 1918.Land and Water, Vol. LXXI, No. 2929, June 1918.
  • , The Catholic World, Vol. CVI, October 1917/March 1918.
  • "Gibbon and the True Cross," Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, Vol. 7, No. 26, Jun. 1918.
  • "Gibbon and the Temporal Power," Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, Vol. 7, No. 27, Sep. 1918.The Catholic World, Vol. CVII, April/September 1918.
  • In The Limits of State Industrial Control, J. M. Dent & Son Ltd., 1919.The Lotus Magazine, Vol. 10, No. 1, Jan. 1919;, Vol. 10, No. 2, February 1919.
  • "A Visit to Strassburg," The Living Age, Vol. XIV, No. 693, April 1919.
  • "Vanished Towns," The Living Age, Vol. 14, No. 709, May 1919.
  • "Paris and London – A Study in Contrasts," The Living Age, September 1919.
  • "Three British Criticisms of Ludendorff," The Living Age, November 1919.
  • "Gibbon and Julian the Apostate," Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, Vol. 8, No. 32, Dec. 1919.
  • "An Essay on Controversy," The Living Age, March 1920.
  • "Cursing the Climate," The Living Age, March 1920.The New Age, Vol. XXVI, No. 12, 1920, pp. 183–184.The New Age, Vol. XXVI, No. 13, 1920, pp. 197–199.The New Age, Vol. XXVI, No. 14, 1920, pp. 216–218.The New Age, Vol. XXVI, No. 15, 1920, pp. 233–235.The New Age, Vol. XXVI, No. 16, 1920, pp. 249–250.The New Age, Vol. XXVI, No. 17, 1920, pp. 265–267.The New Age, Vol. XXVI, No. 18, 1920, pp. 285–287.The New Age, Vol. XXVI, No. 20, 1920, pp. 316–318.The New Age, Vol. XXVI, No. 21, 1920, pp. 333–335.The New Age, Vol. XXVI, No. 22, 1920, pp. 348–340.The New Age, Vol. XXVI, No. 23, 1920, pp. 364–365.The New Age, Vol. XXVI, No. 24, 1920, pp. 380–383.The New Age, Vol. XXVII, No. 2, 1920, pp. 21–24.The New Age, Vol. XXVII, No. 4, 1920, pp. 52–53.The New Age, Vol. XXVII, No. 9, 1920, pp. 133–134.
  • "On Accent," The Living Age, June 1920.
  • "An Analysis of the 'Lettres Provinciales'," Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, Vol. 9, No. 35, Sep. 1920.
  • "Madame Tussaud and Her Famous Waxworks," The Living Age, September 1920.
  • "On Progress," Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, Vol. 9, No. 36, Dec. 1920.
  • In Modern Essays, Harcourt, Brace & Company. New York, 1921.
  • "The Death of St. Martin," The Living Age, February 1921.The Catholic World, Vol. CXIII, September 1921.The New Age, Vol. XXIX, No. 22, 1921, pp. 257–258.The New Age, Vol. XXIX, No. 23, 1921, pp. 268–269.The New Age, Vol. XXIX, No. 24, 1921, pp. 279–280.The New Age, Vol. XXIX, No. 25, 1921, pp. 291–293.The New Age, Vol. XXIX, No. 26, 1921, p. 304.The Dublin Review, Vol. CLXIX, No. 339, October/December 1921.
  • "On the Approach of an Awful Doom." In Modern English Essays, J. M. Dent & Sons. London, 1922.
  • "On a Unknown Country." In Modern English Essays, J. M. Dent & Sons. London, 1922.
  • "On Kind Hearts Being More Than Coronets," The Living Age, July 1922.
  • "Al Wasal, or the Merger," The Living Age, Vol. CCCXV, No. 4093, 16 December 1922.
  • "The Jews," 1922.
  • "The American Alliance," The Living Age, June 1923.
  • "On the Cathedral at Seville and 'The Misantrophe'," The Bookman, Vol. LVIII, No. 4, December 1923.
  • "Hoko and Moko," The Living Age, February 1924.
  • "A Catholic View of Religious America," The Century Magazine, April 1924.
  • "Wash Day – British and American Style," The Outlook, April 1924.
  • "A Pedestrian in Spain," The Living Age, November 1924.
  • "Gibbon and the First Council of Ephesus," Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, Vol. 13, No. 51, Sep. 1924; Part II, Vol. 13, No. 52, Dec. 1924.
  • "Nordic or Not?," The Living Age, April 1925.
  • "A Chinese Litany of Odd Numbers," The Living Age, June 1925.
  • "Mrs. Piozzi's Rasselas," The Saturday Review, Vol. II, No. 3, August 1925.
  • "The Reproof of Gluttony," The Forum, Vol. LXXVI, No. 3, September 1926.
  • "Vathek," The Saturday Review, Vol. IV, No. 12, October 1927.
  • "A Remaining Christmas"
  • In Modern Essays, Selected by Norman G. Brett-James, Dutton, 1930.
  • "The Peril to Letters," The Living Age, January 1930.
  • "Advice to a Young Man," The Living Age, March 1930.
  • "Mark My Words!," The Saturday Review, Vol. VII, No. 34, March 1931.
  • "On Translation," The Living Age, September/October 1931.
  • "Machine versus Man," The Living Age, June 1932.
  • "Britain's Secret Policy," The Living Age, December 1932.
  • "The Restoration of Property," The American Review, April–November 1933.
  • In Science in the Changing World, George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1933.
  • "Science and Religion," The American Review, Vol. II, No. 4, February 1934.
  • "Parliament and Monarchy," The American Review, Vol. II, No. 5, March 1934.
  • "Dimnet and the French Mind," The Saturday Review, Vol. XI, No. 36, March 1935.
  • "Gilbert Keith Chesterton," The Saturday Review, Vol. XVI, No. 10, July 1936.
  • "G. K. Chesterton and Modern England," Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, Vol. 25, No. 99, Sep. 1936.
  • "The New League," The American Review, Vol. VIII, No. 1, November 1936.
  • "A Letter to Bernard Shaw," The American Review, Vol. VIII, No. 3, January 1937.
  • "English Monarchy," The American Review, Vol. VIII, No. 4, February 1937.
  • "Two Texts," The American Review, Vol. IX, No. 1, April 1937.
  • "Neither Capitalism Nor Socialism," The American Mercury, Vol. XLI, No. 163, July 1937.
  • "The Way Out," Social Justice, February 1938.
  • "The Problem Stated," Social Justice, March 1938.
  • "The Wage Worker," Social Justice, March 1938.
  • "Insufficiency and Insecurity," Social Justice, March 1938.
  • "Ruin of the Small Owner," Social Justice, March 1938.
  • "Ruin of the Small Store Keeper," Social Justice, April 1938.
  • "The Proletarian Mind," Social Justice, April 1938.
  • "Usury," Social Justice, April 1938.
  • "The Disease of Monopoly," Social Justice, April 1938.
  • "Capitalism Kills Its Own Market," Social Justice, May 1938.
  • "The Suppressed Truth," Social Justice, May 1938.
  • "The End Is Slavery," Social Justice, May 1938.
  • "The Way Out," Social Justice, June 1938.
  • "Communism – the Theory," Social Justice, June 1938.
  • "Communism Is Wicked," Social Justice, June 1938.
  • "Communism Has Failed," Social Justice, June 1938.
  • "Property," Social Justice, July 1938.
  • "Secured Capitalism," Social Justice, July 1938.
  • "The Way Out," Social Justice, July 1938.
  • "The Way Out: The Differential Tax," Social Justice, July 1938.
  • "The Way Out: The Guild System," Social Justice, August 1938.
  • "The Way Out: The Small Producer," Social Justice, August 1938.
  • "The Small Distributor," Social Justice, August 1938.
  • "The Way Out: The Functions of the State," Social Justice, August 1938.
  • "The Way Out: Summary and Conclusion," Social Justice, August 1938.
  • "Prussia Not Hitler Must Perish," The Living Age, January 1940.
  • "An English Need," The Irish Monthly, Vol. 68, No. 804, Jun. 1940.
  • "Hitler Loses Round One," The Living Age, December 1940.

Miscellany

  • James Anthony Froude, with an introduction by Hilaire Belloc, J.M. Dent & Sons, 1906.
  • Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History, with an introduction by Hilaire Belloc, J.M. Dent & Sons, 1906.
  • Johannes Jörgensen, with a preface by Hilaire Belloc, Longmans, Green & Co., 1914.
  • Hoffman Nickerson, with a preface by Hilaire Belloc, John Bale, Sons & Danielsson Ltd., 1923.
  • P. G. Wodehouse,, In A Century of Humour, Hutchinson & Co., 1934.
  • Brian Magee,, with an introduction by Hilaire Belloc, Burns Oates & Washbourne Ltd., 1938.
  • C. John McCloskey,, The Essential Belloc: A Prophet for Our Times, Saint Benedict Press, 2010.