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...example of Critic Orage's own criticism (of a passage by Paradoxologist Gilbert Keith Chesterton): "Read one after the other in the ordinary way, they [the paradoxes] stun the mind like a series of shocks; no meaning can survive them. And considered sentence by sentence they scarcely repay the trouble...
Briand and Borah; Clémenceau, Chesterton and Clemens; Stresemann and Stimson; Poincare and Pershing; Masaryk, Mussolini, MacDonald and Mellon ?they were all of them to be seen last week in the library of Manhattan's fastidious Pynson Printers, most of them in chalk, Mark Twain and Abraham Lincoln in lithograph. Had it not been withdrawn for reproduction on the cover of this issue of TIME, the crayon likeness of Charles Evans Hughes would also have appeared...
...Artist Woolf, Gilbert Keith Chesterton declared that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle "was trying to emulate, in the spirit world, his famous character, Sherlock Holmes, but wasn't succeeding very well...
...Author. Dominic Bevan Wyndham Lewis (not to be confused with Wyndham Lewis, author of Time and Western Man) is a scholarly, lively, devout, belligerent Roman Catholic, living in France. In company with his compatriots Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc, Montague Summers, his Catholicism makes him an apologist for the Middle Ages, a contemner of his own. Author D. B. Wyndham Lewis has also written François Villon...
...that he was influenced by the history of Leopold and Loeb, acknowledges a debt to Thomas De Quincey's essay "Murder as a Fine Art." The source is immaterial -this crescendo of fear depends on neither history nor scholarship. Mr. Hamilton, like Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Arthur Conan Doyle, is an artist who makes diabolical fiction seem as real as sticks and stones...