D. APPLETON & CO.'S PUBLICATIONS.
A JOURNEY IN OTHER WORLDS. A Romance of the
Future. By JOHN JACOB ASTOR. With 9 full-page Illustrations
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 space 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 interest-esting 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 illustrated 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 illustration
of the ingenious and original application of science." — Rochester
Herald.
New York: D. APPLETON & CO., 72 Fifth Avenue.
