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FOURTH EDITION HERETICS By GILBERT K. CHESTERTON Author of " The Napoleon of Netting Hill " Crown 8vo. 5s. net SOME PRESS OPINIONS World. — "Thoroughly and exuberantly Chestertonian, bristling with quaint epigram, droll illustration, and daring paradox, and marked by a sustained brilliancy of criticism and analysis." Daily Telegraph. — " Mr. Chesterton is an original and unconven- tional thinker. These papers are in his accustomed vein; bright, whimsical, clever, and amusing." T>aUy News. — "There is here all that joyfulness in action, easy brilliance, and skill at the presentation of a case which have made this writer so delightful a controversialist." Manchester Guardian. — "Thoroughly sane and virile." E-vening Standard, — " Mr. Chesterton's intellectual gambols are an increasing joy." Graphic. — "The brilliant maker of paradox finds abundant scope for his wayward and delightful humour in his present volume. . . . Every page contains some witty phrase, some daring flight of fancy, or some startling turn of thought." Onlooker. — "A book of gorgeous paradoxes and brilliant epigram." Clarion. — "A collection of delightful essays bristling with epigrams and flashes of humour. ... A clever, healthy, inspiring book, and will greatly add to the reputation the author has already won by his « Napoleon of Notting Hill.' " Weekly Scotsman. — "This brilliant book ; , . scintillating epigram and unorthodox thought." Newcastle Daily Chronicle. — "A volume which makes delightful read- ing, and the more delightful because it is impossible to read it without encountering in every page — in every phrase almost — abundant food for thought . . . his brilliant wit, his verbal and mental agility are as evident as they are in everything he writes." Morning Leader. — " Mr. Chesterton is as inimitable, as elusive, as pungent as ever. His wit plays with unimpaired vivacity, his convic- tions grow more and more genuine and surprising." London : JOHN LANE, The Bodley Head, Vigo Street, W. NEWf York : JOHN LANE COMPANY, 110-114 West 32ND St.