This is a fine collection of G K Chesterton’s essays originally printed in the Illustrated London News. Being over 80 years old some of the topics may be thought of as dated or irrelevant to our modern times and I suppose in the given circumstances that may be true in some cases. However, it is not the circumstance that matters but the thoughts woven through them and it is these that are still fresh and relevant and always will be. I particularly liked the final sentence from the essay On the Young Idea that I think illustrates this point - “We cannot all play like Paderewski or think like Plato ; but we should be a great deal nearer to it if we could forget these little tags of talk from the daily papers and the debating clubs, and start afresh, thinking for ourselves.” ( )

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