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Excerpt from Some Victorian and Georgian Catholics: Their Art and OutlookPoetry to-day is often distinguished by a ten dency to create verse without rhyme, and as far as I can see without reason. Fiction, with a few Excep tions, is pessimistic, unclean and unfortunately very clever. The Catholic writer, whether he be a poet or a novelist, has to make his art appeal to a hostile world, and he has also to be all the time m every detail a good Ca...

Excerpt from Some Victorian and Georgian Catholics: Their Art and OutlookPoetry to-day is often distinguished by a ten dency to create verse without rhyme, and as far as I can see without reason. Fiction, with a few Excep tions, is pessimistic, unclean and unfortunately very clever. The Catholic writer, whether he be a poet or a novelist, has to make his art appeal to a hostile world, and he has also to be all the time m every detail a good Ca...

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Excerpt from Peeps at the MightyFather. Now there are a good many people who always imagine that Mr. Wells is somewhere near to the top of the stars or somewhere not too far out of the suburbs. In w Christina Al berta's Father Mr. Wells studies a phenomenon that can be found in any suburb and I imagine that it might be found in any star.The phenomenon is of course lunacy and It gives Mr. Wells something to be quite angry about and it gives him...

Excerpt from Some Thoughts on Hilaire BellocExpress it. Few, however, know much about anything. Mr. Braybrooke is a sound journalist. He has a singular capacity for only writing about men he has studied from every angle. His impressions of G. K. Chesterton proved that. His criticisms of Mr. Belloc's works and his study Of the man, is timely. The more we know about him, the better we appreciate or understand what he writes. I welcome these.Abou...

Excerpt from Gilbert Keith ChestertonIt is one of the tragedies of human existence that the divine sense of wonder is eventually destroyed by inexcusable routine and more or less mechanical living. Mental abandon, the exercise of fancy and imagination, the function of creative thought - all these things are squeezed out of the conscious ness of man until his primitive enjoyment of the mystical part of life is affected in a very serious way.Not...

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