The book we are discussing is: Heretics

Please read the Chapters 15 and 16. (You can read it online if you click on the title above.)

In Chapters 15, On Smart Novelists and the Smart Set, he discusses, among other things, the supposed ideal of the stoic English gentlemen, that has become a stereotype.
In Chapter 16, On Mr. McCabe and a Divine Frivolity, he answers a charge against his use of paradox and his humorous writing style – humorously and paradoxically.

Our Father Brown story is The Actor and the Alibi.

(You can read it online if you click on the title above.)

The Complete Father Brown stories can be found here: Father Brown Stories

All are welcome!