This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 Excerpt: ...of calling him an ugly fellow. They say that red hair is the mark of the Celtic stock, instead of calling him "Carrots." Of this class of fun Chesterton is an easy master. It makes him a fearsome controversialist on the platform or in his favourite lists, the columns of a newspaper. But he uses his strength a little ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 Excerpt: ...of calling him an ugly fellow. They say that red hair is the mark of the Celtic stock, instead of calling him "Carrots." Of this class of fun Chesterton is an easy master. It makes him a fearsome controversialist on the platform or in his favourite lists, the columns of a newspaper. But he uses his strength a little tyrannously. He is an adept at begging the question. The lost art called ignoratio elenchi has been privately rediscovered by him, to the surprise of many eKcellent and honest debaters, who have never succeeded in scoring the most obvious points in the face of Chesterton's power of emitting a string of epigrams and pretending it is a chain of argument. The case, in whatever form it is put, is always fresh and vigorous. Another epigrammatist, Oscar Wilde, in comparison with him may be said to have used the midnight oil so liberally in the preparation of his witticisms, that one might almost detect the fishy odour. But as with his prose so with his verses; Chesterton's productions are so fresh that they seem to spring from his vitality rather than his intellect. They are generally a trifle ragged and unpolished as if, like all their author's productions, they were strangers to revision. And vitality demands boisterous movement, more even than coherence. Sometimes the boisterousness is apparently unsupported by the sense of the words. So you have gained the golden crowns and grasped the golden weather, The kingdoms and the hemispheres that all men buy and sell, But I will lash the leaping drum and swing the flaring feather, For the light of seven heavens that are lost to me like hell. Here the stanza actually goes with such a swing that the reader will in all probability not notice that the lines have no particular meaning. On the other h...
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PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.
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Good. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Gilt blue cloth hardcovers. Some mottling/foxing to covers, and a little rubbing/bumping to extremities. Rear hinge starting to separate at endpaper, but still holding. Otherwise a clean, tight and unmarked book. Neat. Portrait frontispiece, with tissue-guard. Bibliography. 191p.
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Very Good. Size: 0x0x0; [Interesting provenance, previously owned by Chandler Hale. ] Bound in publisher's blue cloth. Top edge gilt. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Bookplate of Hale on verso. Contemporary signature of Hale on front end page. Markings on rear end page. Chandler Hale served as Third Secretary of State from 1909-1913. "Gilbert Keith Chesterton was a prolific journalist and author, well known for his apologetics, biographies, detective fiction, literary, social, and political commentary, and modern history. Possessing a keen wit, a comic genius delighting in paradox, and a gift for religious argument, he published nearly 100 books and over 4, 000 newspaper columns and essays."-Wheaton College.
