G. K. Chesterton, by Michael Ffinch (Harper & Row, 384 pp., $18.95)
This makes the Chesterton revival official: a most favorable volume, with the weight and authority of a standard biography, coming from a mainline publisher like Harper & Row. The past decade has already seen several books on different aspects of Chesterton’s thought, two biographies, the appearance of a quarterly (The Chesterton Review), and the commenced reprinting of his collected works. Chestertonians will receive this addition to the stack with pleasure. While it
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