20 JANUARY 1917, Page 21

A Shilling for My Thoughts. By G. K. Chesterton. (Methuen

and Co. la. net.)—This amusing miscellany has been selected by Mr. E. V. Lucas from eight of Mr. Chesterton's books, preference being given to his humorous pieces. One of the beat of the Father Brown series of detective stories, The Wrong Shape, is given, as well as the house-agent's story from The Club of Queer Trades and some excellent passages from Mr. Chesterton's study of Dickens. It is sure to bo a popular shilling's-worth.