11 DECEMBER 1926, Page 20

Mr. Chesterton is in a mad and merry mood in

his Outline of Sanity (Methuen, 6s.), but either he is not quite as merry as he used to be or his subjects suit him less well. He really knows nothing about Capitalism, big shops, machinery and tiresome things like that : why, when he might, does he not take us by the hand to walk with him in wonder under a dragon moon ? All this stuff about the religion of small property is

unworthy of his great gifts : other men may make a sane world, but Mr. Chesterton has something more precious to give us ; and when he fails us, we cannot help feeling vexed at seeing great powers going to waste.

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