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...Collaborators. G. B. Shaw's theory is that Chesterton and Belloc are not two persons, but one mythological monster, "the Chesterbelloc," a combative, capering elephant. Both write brilliantly, voluminously?history, biography, fiction, indifferent poetry, essays on religion and ethics, essays on morals and manners; both champion ecclesiasticism, traditionalism, medievalism; both revile socialism, woman's suffrage and G. B. Shaw...
Caricaturist Gilbert Keith Chesterton, born in London 54 years ago, deserted art school for "literary work." His genius is for turning platitudes into epigrams and vice versa; his reputation, for making paradoxes. Indolent, jovial, fat, he has been described as a "hansom cabful"; and the story runs that one day in a tram he rose, offered his seat to three women...
...Chesterton ever a favorite, more than holds his own in this book rich in good sense, wit and plain cheerful truth. It overflows with the exuberance of mental energy...
Died. Jonathan Dixon Maxwell, 64, famed pioneer of the automobile industry; of pneumonia; at his home in Chesterton, Md. Starting his career as a bicycle tinker in Kokomo, Ind., Maxwell, with two others, Elmer Apperson and Elwood Haynes, built the first automobile manufactured in the U. S. (now stabled in the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C.). His plant at Tarrytown, N. Y., founded in 1904, became a thriving automobile centre, turned out the first cars (Maxwell-Briscoe) at the $500 mark. Maxwell's large Detroit works were used by bankers, who acquired control of the business during the pleasure...
Author Belloc, Catholic historian-essayist, is not satirizing mystery stories; he is having a happy holiday. Only an Englishman can fill so many pages with a simple story and have so much fun doing it. The 25 illustrations by G. K. Chesterton suggest what Bud Fisher might have scribbled at the age of eight; are amusing...