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Fitzgerald had always loved the place. As an undergraduate from Minnesota, he was an intense student ("I'm taking naught but Philosophy & English") with a burning desire to become a famous writer ("Do you realize that Shaw is 61, Wells 51, Chesterton 41 ... and I 21?"). He wrote for the Lit, threw himself into the Triangle Club and all the other doings on a "leafy campus" of "Brooke's* clothes, clean ears, and, withall, a lack of mental prigishness...
...Chesterton accused Shaw of the gloom of a general Puritanism, and this naturally rankled. The weakness of the Puritan, especially of the Shavian kind, is his dangerous levity and cheerfulness, the merry, practical streak which evades the ungovernable tumult of feeling. The theory that the Life Force was driving on and on was felt by his audiences to be an escape from the crucifying emotional matter of the gains and losses. One more dazzling Irishman had talked himself out of life into the heavens like a whizzing rocket and had come down dead and extinct like the stick. One more...
...judgment of his peers can. be trusted, Englishman Edmund Clerihew* Bentley wrote one of the best detective stories of the 20th Century. G. K. Chesterton flatly named Trent's Last Case (1913) "the finest detective story of modern times." Agatha Christie calls it "one of the three best detective stories ever written." Bentley himself put another book at the top of his list: John Buchan's hare & hounds thriller, The Thirty-Nine Steps. He said as much to Author Buchan one day, and Buchan replied: "Why don't you write a shocker yourself? It's twenty...
...Illustrated London News did not rely on pictures alone: as succeeding Ingrams moved into the editorship, the work of such writers as Rudyard Kipling, James M. Barrie, Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, Arthur Conan Doyle, and G. K. Chesterton appeared in its pages. Soon after the present editor took over, at 23, he got a chance to show his mettle when Queen Victoria died. Only twelve hours after the bells of St. Paul's tolled the news, the News appeared with a special edition about the late Queen and the new King Edward VII. Two weeks later, Ingram stationed...
...tale: "I built a little mud wall around the ledge to protect me from the wind. I read aloud page after page of [G. K.] Chesterton's The Thing, tearing out each page as I finished it and stuffed it inside my jacket to keep me warm . . . The third day, I spent solving mathematical problems in my head, then I saw the feet of a rescuer being lowered to me from above...