Chesterton opens by declaring that he does not like seriousness, which he thinks irreligious, and goes on in the same spirit through some thirty short essays: on lamp-posts and spirits, Tennyson and Meredith, the domesticity of detectives, the Irish and the Japanese, Christian Science, the lawlessness of lawyers, keeping pigs as pets and Rostand’s romances.
Paradox-packed journalism from 1920 for anyone who enjoys Chesterton’s knack of turning a commonplace upside down. Download the free EPUB.