COMMENT:22 fairly short chapters, each of which is a portrait of a person with a "peculiar notion," and where that notion took them. Some of these: loyalists of the flat earth; the community that dwelt within the earth; the diehard priest who opposed capitalism; a most conservative M.P. and the royal boycott of Lincoln; the first lady of conspiratology; the man who got letters from statues; a crusader for thoroughbred people; the inventor of frozen battleships; the last of the old Welsh Druids; Jerusalem in Scotland, and other findings of a revisionist geographer; the people with holes in their heads; Bibliomaniacs; British Israelites; doubts on Shakespeare, and a Baconian martyr; Congressman <a href="/bib/162">Donnelly</a>, the great heretic; Shakespearean decoders and the Baconian treasure hunt; eminent ufologists. A fun book, containing some interesting historical facts and a bibliography.
