TO
W. R. TITTERTON
MY DEAR TITTERTON,
This parable for social reformers, as you know, was planned and partly written long before the War; so that touching some things, from Fascism to nigger dances, it was a quite unintentional prophecy. It was your too generous confidence that dragged it from its dusty drawer; whether the world has any reason to thank you I doubt; but I have so many reasons for thanking you, and recognising all you have done for our cause, that I dedicate this book to you.
Yours always, G. K. CHESTERTON
Contents
- I: A Hole in the Caste
- II: A Dangerous Man
- III: The Ladder in the Library
- IV: The First Trial of John Braintree
- V: The Second Trial of John Braintree
- VI: A Commission As Colourman
- VII: "Blondel the Troubadour"
- VIII: The Misadventures of Monkey
- IX: The Mystery of a Hansom Cab
- X: When Doctors Disagree
- XI: The Lunacy of the Librarian
- XII: The Stateman and the Summer-House
- XIII: The Victorian and the Arrow
- XIV: The Return of the Knight-Errant
- XV: The Parting of the Ways
- XVI: The Judgment of the King
- XVII: The Departure of Don Quixote
- XVIII: The Secret of Seawood
- XIX: The Return of Don Quixote
