A CAPITAL STORYBYJULES VERNE,Author of "A Journey to the Centre of the Earth."
FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON DIRECT In 97 Hours, 20 Minutes, AND A TRIP AROUND IT.EIGHTY FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS.One vol., 12mo, bevelled boards, $3.00.
This is one of the most stirring and exciting of Jules Verne's famous and popular stories. Three adventurers take passage for the moon in a hollow, conical shell, weighing 20,000 lbs., and projected from a cannon 900 feet long by the explosion of 400,000 lbs. of gun-cotton. The tremendous results of this explosion; the rush through space of the shell and its passengers; the extent to which they were able to conquer the laws of gravitation, and the results of their extraordinary exploit, make up as thrilling a series of adventures as the fancy of this very imaginative French author is capable of painting. Numerous facts in philosophy, astronomy, and other sciences, are woven into the story, which is spiced with not a little good-humored satire upon American peculiarities, for the scene of the narrative is laid to a great extent in the United States.
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THE BRIC-A-BRAC SERIES.
Personal reminiscences of famous poets, novelists, wits and humorists, artists, actors, musicians, and the like.
Edited by RICHARD HENRY STODDARD.
NOW READY THE INITIAL VOLUME:
Personal Reminiscences,CHORLEY, PLANCHE, and YOUNG.
One volume, square 12mo. beautifully bound in extra cloth, black and gilt, price $1.50.
Seldom has so much amusement been crowded between a single set of not large covers as may be found in the first volume of the BRIC-A-BRAC SERIES. Owing to Mr. Stoddard's careful and judicious editing, we have here in a nutshell all the best things from the three recently issued books of biography and reminiscence, by or about Chorley, the Athenæum's musical critic, Planche, the popular dramatist, and Young the eminent actor. The pages fairly brim with descriptions, quips and anecdotes anent famous philosophers, poets, wits, actors, singers, politicians—men and women now out of the world in which they were once so busy and conspicuous. It would require the repetition of the entire index to give a full idea of the number of interesting people discussed and described here. Napoleon III., with the diamond eagle, just before he sported the famous real one at Boulogne; George III., with his querulous ways; delightful Malibran; our own Hawthorne; Byron the reckless; Count D'Orsay, still princely in his poverty; Thackeray the rollicksome; Bulwer, Kean, Lady Blessington, Tom Hood, and scores of others, for whose names even there is not room.
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