Science Fiction
Most of the stories in this collection appeared originally in the _Pall Mall Budget_, two were published in the _Pall Mall Gazette_, and one in _St James's Gazette_. I desire to make the usual acknowledgments. The third story in the book was, I find, reprinted by the _Observat...
Most of the stories in this collection appeared originally in the _Pall Mall Budget_, two were published in the _Pall Mall Gazette_, and one in _St James's Gazette_. I desire to...
2. Chapter 2"I don't like 'em," said his housekeeper, suddenly shivering and turning away. "I know it's very silly of me--and I'm very sorry, particularly as you like the thing so much. But...
3. Chapter 3He sat on a deck chair, and when he was not tapping refractory bits of coal with them, he kept his feet--on which he wore, after the manner of sandals, the holy relics of a pair...
4. Chapter 4Abruptly on the opposite bank a man walked into the picture. He was black-bearded, dressed in flannels, had a red belt, and a vast grey felt hat. He walked, leaning very much fo...
5. Chapter 5"It was in the time of the last Lushai expedition but one, and Walters thought these people you have been visiting were friendly. So, with an airy confidence in my capacity for...
6. Chapter 6"At last, three weeks ago, I let the fire out. I took my cylinder and unscrewed it while it was still so hot that it punished my hands, and I scraped out the crumbling lava-like...
7. Chapter 7"He gave me this in the face." The man indicated his scar. "Then he kicked me. It was like a cart-horse. I got up, and seeing he hadn't finished, I started off full tilt with my...
8. Chapter 8"But," began Davidson, and then, "Yes--that's the ship I dreamt of, I'm sure that's the ship I dreamt of. She was standing off an island that swarmed with penguins, and she fire...
9. Chapter 9Being a man of naturally retiring and modest disposition, Mr Watkins determined to make this visit _incog_., and after due consideration of the conditions of his enterprise, he...
10. Chapter 10[Footnote A: The reader unaccustomed to microscopes may easily understand this by rolling a newspaper in the form of a tube and looking through it at a book, keeping the other e...
11. Chapter 11Evans hurried to the hole. Already half exposed by the ill-fated wretch beside them lay a number of dull yellow bars. He bent down in the hole, and, clearing off the soil with h...
12. Chapter 12Langbridge. BALLADS OF THE BRAVE: Poems of Chivalry, Enterprise, Courage, and Constancy, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day. Edited, with Notes, by Rev. F. LANGBRIDGE. _...
13. Chapter 13'The book is, indeed, composed of leaves from life, and is far and away the best view that has been vouchsafed us behind the scenes of the consulting-room. It is very superior t...
14. Chapter 14A series of volumes upon those topics of social, economic, and industrial interest that are at the present moment foremost in the public mind. Each volume of the series is writt...