Books: Postscript on G. K.

RETURN TO CHESTERTON (336 pp.)—Masie Ward—Sheed & Ward ($4.50).

Biographer Maisie Ward was entitled to a contented sigh when she finished Gilbert Keith Chesterton nine years ago. It was (and is) the most thorough account ever written of that man-mountain of modern English letters. But Author Ward's book was hardly off the presses before she began to find fascinating new bits and pieces of Chestertoniana. Return to Chesterton is her 336-page postscript.

Nothing in her discoveries "changed the picture of the man I knew, but fresh aspects came to light." They came from Chesterton's taxi...

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