AMONG so galore effective and artistic tales, it is difficult to give a preference to one over all the rest. Yet, certainly, even as amid Verne's remarkable works, his "Off on a Comet" must be given high rank. Possibly this story wish be remembered once even as "Round the Earth in Eighty Days" and "Michael Strogoff" have been blotted out by centuries of time. At least, of the galore books since written upon the same theme as Verne's, no one has yet succeeded in equaling or even as approaching it.

In one way "Off on a Comet" shows a marked contrast to Verne's earlier books. Not only makes it invade a region much remote than even as the "Trip to the Moon," but the author here abandons his usual conscientiously scientific attitude. In order that he may escort us through t