“Mr. Chesterton’s intellectual gambols are an increasing joy.”—Evening Standard.
“The brilliant maker of paradox finds abundant scope for his wayward and delightful humour in his present volume.... Every page contains some witty phrase, some daring flight of fancy, or some startling turn of thought.”—Graphic.
“A book of gorgeous paradoxes and brilliant epigram.”—Onlooker.
“A collection of delightful essays bristling with epigrams and flashes of humour.... A clever, healthy, inspiring book, and will greatly add to the reputation the author has already won by his ‘Napoleon of Notting Hill.’”—Clarion.
“This brilliant book ... scintillating epigram and unorthodox thought.”—Weekly Scotsman.
“A volume which makes delightful reading, and the more delightful because it is impossible to read it without encountering in every page—in every phrase almost—abundant food for thought ... his brilliant wit, his verbal and mental agility are as evident as they are in everything he writes.”—Newcastle Daily Chronicle.
“Mr. Chesterton is as inimitable, as elusive, as pungent as ever. His wit plays with unimpaired vivacity, his convictions grow more and more genuine and surprising.”—Morning Leader.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] The distinction still holds good, and those Spaniards who have travelled, e.g. to Buenos Aires, differ by a certain practical energy and optimism from those who have never left the Peninsula.