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Napoleon of Notting Hill, by Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Title: The Napoleon of Notting Hill
Author: Gilbert K. Chesterton
Illustrator: W. Graham Robertson
Release Date: December 8, 2006 [EBook #20058]
Language: English
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The Napoleon of Notting Hill
THE NAPOLEON of NOTTING HILL
By GILBERT K. CHESTERTON
With Seven Full-Page Illustrations by W. GRAHAM ROBERTSON and a Map of the Seat of War
REV. WILLIAM J. GORMLEY, C. M.
JOHN LANE: THE BODLEY HEAD LONDON & NEW YORK. MDCCCCIV
Copyright in U.S.A., 1904
William Clowes & Sons, Limited, London and Beccles.
TO HILAIRE BELLOC
For every tiny town or place God made the stars especially; Babies look up with owlish face And see them tangled in a tree: You saw a moon from Sussex Downs, A Sussex moon, untravelled still, I saw a moon that was the town's, The largest lamp on Campden Hill.
Yea; Heaven is everywhere at hom