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# Wednesday
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/28114/
- Published: 2013-05-29T12:01:37.000Z
- Updated: 2013-05-29T12:01:37.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Books, #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/2012/10/Chesterton-Mug-235x300.jpg "Chesterton Mug")

Chesterton Short(s)

In his diary of 1922 through 1927, C. S. Lewis mentions reading four Chesterton books: *Eugenics and Other Evils*, *St. Francis of Assisi*, *Magic*, and *The Lunatic at Large* (by which he presumably meant *The Poet and the Lunatics*). \[*All My Road Before Me*, New York: 1991\] Aidan Mackay writes from England that "This was clearly one of those odd tricks of memory, for there was a very popular book named *A Lunatic at Large* by J. Storer Clouston. It was published in 1899, reprinted many times, and was the first of a series, being followed by *The Lunatic at Large Again* (1922), *The Lunatic Still at Large* (1923), and *The Lunatic in Charge* (1926)."

Happy birthday, GKC: May 29, 1874.