Although G. K. Chesterton is among his compatriots. He would have one of the most quoted of been gratified by the remark of an ordinary early-20th-century English policeman who turned up at his funeral: writers, he has yet to find his "We'd all have been here if we could have fair share of late-20th-cen- got off duty. He was a grand man." tury English readers. During Since then, devoted Chestertonians his lifetime he was immensely popular, have continued reading him furiously. more popular...