THE VERSATILE CHESTERTON
"The Poet and the Lunatics." By sell' ■? heStert°n" London: Cas-
The many-sided G. K. Chesterton can turn you out an essay on ecclesioloey or curries he has known, on Prohibition or primeval man. He has a captivating and fluent style that gives pleasure to his uncountable admirers the world over, and although he knows how to make paradoxes and can thoroughly enjoy them, lie has the happy faculty of always writing as if to entertain others rather than^himself. In this original octet of detective stories incidents in nnrrhV the Poefc Gale, and horrible, things and a madhouse. Mr. Chesterton is revealed as a clever inventor of tales of crime, mystery poetry, and hallucination. They will greatly please not only his faithful followers who look for him week by week m a popular illustrated journal, but those (surely they must be few) who have yet to know and enjoy his society and seek to fathom the depths of his philosophy.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 138, 7 December 1929, Page 21
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162THE VERSATILE CHESTERTON Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 138, 7 December 1929, Page 21
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