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# GKC Wednesday
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/37089/
- Published: 2015-06-17T07:19:58.000Z
- Updated: 2015-06-17T07:19:58.000Z
- 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/2012/10/Chesterton-Mug-235x300.jpg "Chesterton Mug")

Chesterton Short(s)

Novelist John O'Hara was 23 years old in 1928 and trying to break into New York City journalism. Noel Busch of *Time Magazine* gave him a try-out, asking O'Hara to review Bennett Doty's *Legion of the Damned* and G. K. Chesterton's *Robert Louis Stevenson*. O'Hara failed the test, apparently, as neither review was published. \[Matthew Bruccoli, *The O'Hara Concern*, New York: Random House, 1975\]

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I find it interesting that GKC's *Robert Louis Stevenson* would've merited a review by *Time*. I have nothing against GKC's *RLS*, of course, but looking back from a 100 years later, it would seem to rank low among GKC's important works. Nonetheless, it was considered important at the time. No doubt a testament to GKC's popularity at the time, as well as to our mass media's constant, relentless, thirsty quest for articles to fill their pages.