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# Friday
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/26283/
- Published: 2012-11-23T06:23:15.000Z
- Updated: 2012-11-23T06:23:15.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Miscellaneous, #wpChunk

**Background**: When I was the editor of *[Gilbert Magazine](http://www.chesterton.org/explore-the-acs/gilbertmagazine/?ref=thedailyeudemon.com)*, I was responsible for the "Tremendous Trifles" column. It was occasionally hard to find a sufficient amount of interesting GKC material to fill the page, so John Peterson sent me a file full of Chesterton ancedotes. They were idiosyncratic, historical, and Chestertonian. He recently gave me permission to use them here. I hope y'all find them as interesting as I have over the years. Most of them have never been published.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Chesterton-Mug-235x300.jpg "Chesterton Mug")

Chesterton Short(s)

Evelyn Waugh liked to send out satirical Christmas cards, and the apex (or nadir\] of this practice was reached during the Christmas season of 1929\. Waugh's card that year consisted of extracts reprinted from unfavorable reviews of his first novel, *Decline and Fall*. The harshest passage of all was taken from a review by Chesterton. \[Christopher Sykes, *Evelyn Waugh*, Boston, 1975, p. 98\]