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GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON-Maisie Ward-Sheed & Ward...
...People," said the late, large Gilbert Keith Chesterton, "have fallen into a foolish habit of speaking of orthodoxy as something heavy, humdrum, and safe. There never was anything so perilous or so exciting as orthodoxy. It was sanity: and to be sane is more dramatic than to be mad. . . . It is always easy to let the age have its head; the difficult thing is to keep...
...Chesterton chose to keep his own head is the theme of Maisie Ward's intimate biography. Biographer Ward (wife and business partner of Publisher Francis J. Sheed) is, like Chesterton, a Roman Catholic, and writes as one. Her book is fat with Chestertonian facts. It is also intelligent, somewhat adulatory, exhaustive (668 pages...
...soup he took was Elephant Soup, and the fish he took was Whale, . . . And Noah, he often said to his wife as he sat down to dine, "I don't care where the water goes, if it doesn't get into the wine." - G. K. Chesterton, Wine and Water...
Magic, which devout Catholic Chesterton wrote in 1913, preaches religious faith through tricky supernaturalism. A conjurer's magic confounds, and in one case deranges, a roomful of skeptics-worldly priest, agnostic doctor, materialistic U.S. businessman. There are some witty lines, including the famous "I hate a quarrel because it always interrupts an argument." But the play dies on its feet, having talked itself to death...