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# Thursday
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/28073/
- Published: 2013-05-23T11:25:38.000Z
- Updated: 2013-05-23T11:25:38.000Z
- 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 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/2013/04/chesterglobe-298x300.jpg "chesterglobe")

  
 Chesterton Short(s)

In June of 1921, Max Beerbohm wrote discouragingly to a prospective biographer that he, Max, was not (as Shaw had labeled him\] "the incomparable Max," but rather (as the humorists had it) "the comparable Max." Beerbohm continued,

> I am not incomparable. Compare me. Compare me as an essayist (for instance\] with other essayists. Point out what an ignoramus I am beside Belloc, and how Chesterton's high spirits and abundance shame me.

And so on. The biographer, Bohun Lynch, had mentioned he was planning a little book. "Oh, keep it little!" begged the incomparable Max. \[S.N. Behrman, *Portrait of Max*, Random House, 1960, 21-22\]