[*] “Between the covers of ‘Heretics’ there is not a little excellent critical doctrine. Yet the writer ought to trust his readers to understand him without preliminary shouts to attract their attention.” Edward Fuller.
| + | Critic. 47: 565. D. ‘05. 640w. |
“One page amuses by its originality of conception and expression, the next provokes by its insecurity of argument, the third charms by its suggestiveness. It is a book to be relished, not as a whole, but in snatches. With all its half-playful cynicism, it seems to be in the main sincere.” Edith J. R. Isaacs.
| + + — | Dial. 39: 204. O. 1, ‘05. 1560w. |
“The general comment on Mr. Chesterton is that he is extremely ingenious, but so inordinately whimsical that it would be absurd to take him seriously. The true account of him is that he is not ingenious at all, but exceptionally straight forward and matter-of-fact.” Herbert W. Horwill.
| + | Forum. 37: 255. O. ‘05. 1660w. |
“Mr. Chesterton is quite as trenchant and exuberant as he was, and we are, after all, not much older than we were; yet we join in the fun with perceptibly less eagerness now. The truth is that Mr. Chesterton has done in this book what he always did ostensibly, and always avoided really; he has given himself away.”
| + — | Lond. Times. 4: 183. Je. 9, ‘05. 1140w. |
[*] “His ideas are sounder than many a casual reader will be willing to admit. They are sound in spite of Mr. Chesterton’s perversity.”
| + | Pub. Opin. 39: 728. D. 2, ‘05. 490w. |