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By PERCY GREG, 
Author of ‘‘ The Devil’s Advocate,” ‘‘ Interleaves,” &c, 
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** Broadly described, ‘ Across the Zodiac’ is the narrative—found under strange and appalling circumstances 
—of a journey made in 1830, or thereabouts, to the planet Mars, and of the writer's experience of the Martial men 
and women. By the discovery of a certain mysterious natural force of tremendous potency, called the Apergy, 
_ the nameless adventurer found himself in a position to traverse space and attempt a more wondrous voyage than 
was ever done by mariner or traveller, ‘from Captain Noah down to Captain Cook,’ from Solomon, Lord of the 
Enchanted Carpet, down to Commander Cameron and Mr. Henry M. Stanley. Rejecting the Moon—first as 
uninhabitable, and afterwards as uninteresting—Mr, Greg’s hero decided to achieve the conquest of Mars. By 
‘the use of elaborately and portentously scientific means he built himself what he calls an Astronaut—a kind 
of navigable heavenly body, stored with provisions, oxygen, and scientific apparatus, and capable of pro- 
ceeding through space at the rate of 45,000 miles an hour. Watching the moment of the opposition of Mars and 
Terra, he shot himself off into the Infinite ; he traversed the 50,000,000 miles that yawned between himself and 
“his mark ; he presently descended on the Red Star, as Mr. Coxwell descends from a balloon, only much more 
_ easily and at much greater leisure. Of his journey, it may be noted an account is given so plain and circumstan- 
J tial that it might have been written for the Tes newspaper, and if his facts are questioned it will be their own 
fault and not that of their recorder. . . . Mr. Greg has imagined and thought out his book witha vast amoun 
_ of pains and earnestness, and condensed in it a quantity of materials of allsorts. . . . Itis solidly and evenly 
_ wrought throughout, andif it be taken by instalments it will be perused with pleasure and interest.” —A thenaum. 
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