_MANY INVENTIONS._ By RUDYARD KIPLING. Containing fourteen stories, several of which are now published for the first time, and two poems. 12mo, 427 pages. Cloth, $1.50.
"The reader turns from its pages with the conviction that the author has no superior to-day in animated narrative and virility of style. He remains master of a power in which none of his contemporaries approach him--the ability to select out of countless details the few vital ones which create the finished picture. He knows how, with a phrase or a word, to make you see his characters as he sees them, to make you feel the full meaning of a dramatic situation."--_New York Tribune._
""Many Inventions" will confirm Mr. Kipling"s reputation.... We would cite with pleasure sentences from almost every page, and extract incidents from almost every story. But to what end? Here is the completest book that Mr. Kipling has yet given us in workmanship, the weightiest and most humane in breadth of view."--_Pall Mall Gazette._
"Mr. Kipling"s powers as a story-teller are evidently not diminishing.
We advise everybody to buy "Many Inventions," and to profit by some of the best entertainment that modern fiction has to offer."--_New York Sun._
""Many Inventions" will be welcomed wherever the English language is spoken.... Every one of the stories bears the imprint of a master who conjures up incident as if by magic, and who portrays character, scenery, and feeling with an ease which is only exceeded by the boldness of force."--_Boston Globe._
"The book will get and hold the closest attention of the reader."--_American Bookseller._
"Mr. Rudyard Kipling"s place in the world of letters is unique. He sits quite aloof and alone, the incomparable and inimitable master of the exquisitely fine art of short-story writing. Mr. Robert Louis Stevenson has perhaps written several tales which match the run of Mr. Kipling"s work, but the best of Mr. Kipling"s tales are matchless, and his latest collection, "Many Inventions," contains several such."--_Philadelphia Press._
"Of late essays in fiction the work of Kipling can be compared to only three--Blackmore"s "Lorna Doone," Stevenson"s marvelous sketch of Villon in the "New Arabian Nights," and Thomas Hardy"s "Tess of the D"Urbervilles."... It is probably owing to this extreme care that "Many Inventions" is undoubtedly Mr. Kipling"s best book."--_Chicago Post._
"Mr. Kipling"s style is too well known to American readers to require introduction, but it can scarcely be amiss to say there is not a story in this collection that does not more than repay a perusal of them all."--_Baltimore American._
"As a writer of short stories Rudyard Kipling is a genius. He has had imitators, but they have not been successful in dimming the l.u.s.ter of his achievements by contrast.... "Many Inventions" is the t.i.tle. And they are inventions--entirely original in incident, ingenious in plot, and startling by their boldness and force."--_Rochester Herald._
_A JOURNEY IN OTHER WORLDS. A Romance of the Future._ By JOHN JACOB ASTOR. With 9 full-page Ill.u.s.trations by Dan Beard. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
"An interesting and cleverly devised book.... No lack of imagination....
Shows a skillful and wide acquaintance with scientific facts."--_New York Herald._
"The author speculates cleverly and daringly on the scientific advance of the earth, and he revels in the physical luxuriance of Jupiter; but he also lets his imagination travel through spiritual realms, and evidently delights in mystic speculation quite as much as in scientific investigation. If he is a follower of Jules Verne, he has not forgotten also to study the philosophers."--_New York Tribune._
"A beautiful example of typographical art and the bookmaker"s skill....
To appreciate the story one must read it."--_New York Commercial Advertiser._
"The date of the events narrated in this book is supposed to be 2000 A. D. The inhabitants of North America have increased mightily in numbers and power and knowledge. It is an age of marvelous scientific attainments. Flying machines have long been in common use, and finally a new power is discovered called "apergy," the reverse of gravitation, by which people are able to fly off into s.p.a.ce in any direction, and at what speed they please."--_New York Sun._
"The scientific romance by John Jacob Astor is more than likely to secure a distinct popular success, and achieve widespread vogue both as an amusing and interesting story, and a thoughtful endeavor to prophesy some of the triumphs which science is destined to win by the year 2000.
The book has been written with a purpose, and that a higher one than the mere spinning of a highly imaginative yarn. Mr. Astor has been engaged upon the book for over two years, and has brought to bear upon it a great deal of hard work in the way of scientific research, of which he has been very fond ever since he entered Harvard. It is admirably ill.u.s.trated by Dan Beard."--_Mail and Express._
"Mr. Astor has himself almost all the qualities imaginable for making the science of astronomy popular. He knows the learned maps of the astrologers. He knows the work of Copernicus. He has made calculations and observations. He is enthusiastic, and the spectacular does not frighten him."--_New York Times._
"The work will remind the reader very much of Jules Verne in its general plan of using scientific facts and speculation as a skeleton on which to hang the romantic adventures of the central figures, who have all the daring ingenuity and luck of Mr. Verne"s heroes. Mr. Astor uses history to point out what in his opinion science may be expected to accomplish.
It is a romance with a purpose."--_Chicago Inter-Ocean._
"The romance contains many new and striking developments of the possibilities of science hereafter to be explored, but the volume is intensely interesting, both as a product of imagination and an ill.u.s.tration of the ingenious and original application of science."--_Rochester Herald._