Chesterton's two great obsessions, art and religion, come together in this collection of essays that were born as literary reviews and ended up becoming a journey through the good and the superior. Thus, the characters glossed by Chesterton in this volume are divided into two categories, the "artistic temperaments" (Blake, Lord Byron, Charlotte Brontë, William Morris, Robert Louis Stevenson) and the "religious temperaments" (Francis of Assisi, Savonarola and Lev Tolstoy). Each of these portraits allows us to discover a Chesterton capable of masterfully combining biography and essay.