To the Editor:
Edward Pearce’s review of the biography of Hilaire Belloc by A.N. Wilson [Books in Review, November 1984] calls to mind the poet Humbert Wolfe’s sardonic epitaph for Belloc’s friend, G.K. Chesterton:
Here lies
Mr. G.K. Chesterton
Who might have gone to heaven
But didn’t
When he heard the news
That the place
Was full of Jews.
Judging by the review, the epitaph, with a change of name, would be equally suitable for Belloc’s tombstone.
Jules Rothman
Middlebury, Connecticut
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