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nd hate and hell declare That men have found a thing to love._ _Far from your sunny uplands set I saw the dream; the streets I trod The lit straight streets shot out and met The starry streets that point to God. This legend of an epic hour A child I dreamed, and dream it still, Under the great grey water-tower That strikes the stars on Campden Hill._ G. K. C. _CONTENTS_ BOOK I _Chapter_ _Page_ I. INTRODUCTORY REMARKS ON THE ART OF PROPHECY 13 II. THE MAN IN GREEN 21 III. THE HILL OF HUMOUR 49 BOOK II I. THE CHARTER OF THE CITIES 65 II. THE COUNCIL OF THE PROVOSTS 82 III. ENTER A LUNATIC 102 BOOK III I. THE MENTAL CONDITION OF ADAM WAYNE 125 II. THE REMARKABLE MR. TURNBULL 147 III. THE EXPERIMENT OF MR. BUCK 163 BOOK IV I. THE BATTLE OF THE LAMPS 189 II. THE CORRESPONDENT OF THE "COURT JOURNAL" 208 III. THE GREAT ARMY OF SOUTH KENSINGTON 224 BOOK V I. THE EMPIRE OF NOTTING HILL 259 II. THE LAST BATTLE 279 III. TWO VOICES 291 _ILLUSTRATIONS_ IN THE DARK ENTRANCE THERE APPEARED A FLAMING FIGURE _Frontispiece_ _To face page_ CITY MEN OUT ON ALL FOURS IN A FIELD COVERED WITH VEAL CUTLETS 16 "I'M THE KING OF THE CASTLE" 70 "I BRING HOMAGE TO MY KING" 104 MAP OF THE SEAT OF WAR 190 KING AUBERON DESCENDED FROM THE OMNIBUS WITH DIGNITY 220 "A FINE EVENING, SIR," SAID THE CHEMIST 264 "WAYNE, IT WAS ALL A JOKE!" 296 BOOK I _THE NAPOLEON OF NOTTING HILL_ CHAPTER I--_Introductory Remarks on the Art of Prophecy_ The human race, to which so many of my readers
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