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# Wednesday
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/26464/
- Published: 2012-12-12T06:44:42.000Z
- Updated: 2012-12-12T06:44:42.000Z
- 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)

The forerunner of G.K.'s Weekly was Cecil Chesterton's *New Witness*, and the forerunner of the *New Witness* was Hilaire Belloc's *Eye Witness*. Few probably know that Maurice Baring and Belloc founded an earlier newspaper called the *North Street Gazette* and that this was indirectly the parent of the *Eye Witness*. The paper's motto was "Out, out, brief scandal!" It folded after one issue in the summer of 1908\. \[Emma Letley, *Maurice Baring*, London: 1991, 139-40\] Upon Gilbert Chesterton's death in 1936, the newspaper became *The Weekly Review*. The directors of *G.K.'s Weekly* had wanted to shut it down, but they were persuaded by Hilary Pepler to pass the enterprise on to a small group of key Distributists, including Hilaire Belloc. Belloc edited the paper for a brief time and then passed that responsibility to his son-in-law, Reginald Jebb. \[Brocard Sewell, *Habit of a Lifetime*, Padstow, 1992, p. 99\]