The Illustrated London News 1923-1925

The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 33: The Illustrated London News 1923-1925 by G.K. Chesterton

A collection of his columns on various topics.  Loeb and Leopold.  Mary Queen of Scots.  The notion of Progress.  Bolshevism, and also British politics as affected by them.  Education, in particularly the pretense of education in common.  On how historians make allowances for the limits of past time, and none for their own.  And many other topics.

the castle

The story opens with a castle.  Where the villainess is de facto in charge, because the actual king is simply a drunk. 

So my imagination instantly conjured up a castle as black as night.
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