Hilaire Belloc's "The Four Men"

Belloc biographer and Imaginative Conservative Senior Contributor Joseph Pearce has opined that though Belloc himself thought The Path to Rome his best book, “The Four Men rivals it, and perhaps surpasses it, as a vehicle for Belloc’s wit and wisdom, or as an outpouring of his irrepressible personality.” Like Fr. James Schall, who never could make up his mind as to whether Chesterton or Belloc was his favorite, I find that whichever of these Bellocian volumes I am reading at the moment is my favorite. With Pearce, however, I suspect that The Four Men may well be greater in all the ways mentioned, though I suspect my judgment may be clouded by my experiences of the book as the occasion for a party.