The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-06-04

years hence. 2 city in which denoc-
Tacy and romance are dead ~ d re-
suit Of progress" and eyolutionisn.
\ book the war age
upon Noting Hill hS the rest IT Lon
don. the rise Of Noting Hill u i'm
perlal power under the leadership -
Adam Wayne. and the. fall u the new
empire BY sheer weight Of i'm
perlallSTn.
II The Man Who Was THURSDAY
"a story which G.. X 4. himself has
called z nightmare-the author
creates q Central Anarchists Cour-
81 headed by an enormous, whimsi-
cal, ana terrific parsonage called Sun
day. the other members being named
after the weekdays from Monday TO
saturday "Thursday.' however. IS
not an anarchist. being a policeman
Of 2 new type employed not to arrest
CRIMINALS but to detect and root out
pernIclous ideas which make crimf-
nalS The story traces to q Ches-
climax the history OF the
Anarchists ounei and the transcen-
dental police.
The Ball and the Cross IS built
on a plan equally queer. An atheist
and a Catholic career all over Eng
land, and out Of England at times,
lighting an ever Interrupted duel oc-
- Oil dlldik On the SOD0
name Of the Virgin Mary. The latter
part Of the action is set in a luna
tic asylum, where the writer gathers
all who have appeared in the earlier
chapters. This story, though ingen-
lously planned, refuses analysis, the
resolution being misty in the extreme.
The most pleasing spots in the story
are those in which the author makes
delicious though narrow-minded fun
Of the men Of science
Mr.. Chesterton's latest romance is
'Manalve,' a ~fanatical and farcical
tract on the JOY Of life. In this anus
ing and rapid story the Chester
tonian hero, Innocent Smith, who has
mystically announced himself by a
telegram Man found alive with two
legs, bursts in during a fierce wind
storm, JUMPING a garden wall in the
wake Of a hat, a green umbrella, and
a yellow Gladstone bag. After In
nocent Smith has performed various
exploits, the people in the invaded
, garden organize a whimsical ~ourt
Of Beacon and try the maniac on
various charges which are brough,
in apt time by an American criminolo-
gist and a British insanity expert II
Part Two, The Explanations OF In.
; nocent Smith," the delightful lunatit
is cleared Of one grave charge a1tel
another, his crimes being reduced te
harmless and philosophical practica
! jokes.
: The crave lesson Of "ManaIive' i
, that innocence enables a human be
r ing to walk on two legs, to see will
undimmed eyes, to be genuinely ans
f consciously alive. Innocent Smltl
seeks to remind himself by ever,
electric shock to the intellect tina
he is still a, man alive. Fo
6 this reason he fires bullets at his bes
e friends; for this reason he arrange
r ladders and collapsible chimneys {
steal his own property; for this rea
, son he goes plodding round a whob
t planet to get back to his own home.
Innocent Smith has been created t.
o emphasize the idea that a state o
f exhilaratiOn, an active and imagin
atiye life. is an important object o
education.
3 The Detective Stories.
9 The wildly romanic author Of Man
3 alive" and The Man Who Wa
Thursday'-both Of which might b
: called transcendental detective rom
ances-has written two collections Q
q short detective stories. In The Gu
Of Queer Trades the Sherloc'
$ Holmes is a retired judge. a man 0
4 inspired eccentricity who solves on
mystery after another by means Of
strange SenSltlVeneSS to the atnQOS
phere Of crime or innocence
8 spiritual gift which most of his &C
quaintances have diagnosed as in
g sanity.
: "The Innocence Of Father Brown
is a much better collection, bein
4 hrmer and more even, original with
h out too strong a suggestion Of strain
h ing after novelty,-and ~reasonabl
g serious. Father Brown, the clumsy
apparently helpless little Catholi
priest who solves riddles through
combination Of analysis and mora
G insight is an orthodox ChestertoniaI
v given to suggestive and bewilderin
comment; and the DR.. Watson, the in
a nocent-minded criminal Flambeau,
/: not less a reflector to Father Brown
e spiritual wisdom than a foil to hi
analytical genius. THE Innocence G
Father Brown" keeps narrative an