A Journey to the Centre of the Earth

THE "Voyages Extraordinaires" of M. Jules Verne deserve to be made widely known in English-speaking countries by means of carefully prepared translations. Witty and ingenious adaptations of the researches and discoveries of modern science to the popular taste, which demands that these should be presented to ordinary readers in the lighter form of cleverly mingled

terra-cotta pots

The house was his own

full-sized spectacles.

assert and reassert.

wait for him

now and then

most facile of tongues

unasked-for shape

draw anything out of it