The Skirts of the Great City

CHAPTER I

HAMPSTEAD AND ITS ASSOCIATIONS

In his remarkable work _Les Récits de l'Infini_, the famous French astronomer, Camille Flammarion, hit upon a somewhat original device to bring vividly before his readers the fact that the heavenly bodies are seen by the dwellers upon earth, not as they are now, but as they were when the light revealing them left them countless age...