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Died. E. (for Edmund) C. (for Clerihew) Bentley, 80. British author of the classic crime novel Trent's Last Case, rated by the late G. K. Chesterton as "the finest detective story of modern times"; in London. While still a schoolboy, Bentley invented his celebrated verse form, the clerihew. Sample...
Cruelest of all was the gibe of G. K. Chesterton, who took the one poem in which Kipling approached beauty, Recessional, a prayer for humility under power, and made...
...Witcutt, son of a Staffordshire merchant tailor, was studying law at Birmingham University when the attraction of G.K. Chesterton's anti-industrial theory of "Distributism" led him to Rome. Distributists took one look at the misery of the workingman and concluded that large-scale industry should be abolished in favor of a social-industrial structure more like that of the Middle Ages...
Guinness has perfected the role with what one might consider too much practice, so this picture, like the others, is something of a minor gem. It fails only in capturing the true flavor of Chesterton's gentle detective tales. The concept of an arch-criminal brought to rights by an equally archdetective (an amateur, at that) is not of our era, with its low-keyed police efficiency. In all Europe there is only one man whose intellect can cope with the man who for ten years has pilfered art treasures without leaving the police any more of a clue than...
...CHESTERTON : "The hopalong cassidy of the roman catholic church...