Wednesday

Background: When I was the editor of Gilbert Magazine, 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.

Chesterton Short(s)

It may be worth mentioning that Evelyn Waugh's autobiography remarks, briefly, that in 1923 he had attended a meeting of the Oxford Newman Society to "hear Chesterton." [A Little Learning: The Early Years, Little-Brown, 1964, 197-98]