91

"BY VIRTUE OF THE SPIRIT POWER IN THIS
CABLE," SAID THE SORCERER, "I WILL THAT
THE MAGICAL ISLAND OF ARJEELS SHALL
RISE ABOVE THE WAVES," _C. Durand Chapman_, 197

THE SHIP IN COMPANY WITH A VAST VOLUME OF
WATER SPRANG INTO THE AIR TO A GREAT
HEIGHT, " 223

WE SLOWLY DRAGGED OURSELVES ACROSS THE
RANGE OF ICY PEAKS, " 241

I MOUNTED THE TRUNK AND PROPOSED THE
HEALTH OF HER MAJESTY LYONE, QUEEN
OF ATVATABAR, _R. W. Rattray_, 261

LYONE REACHED FOR A FLOWER, AND IN DOING
SO TOUCHED THE VASE, AND IMMEDIATELY
FELL DEAD UPON THE FLOOR, _C. Durand Chapman_, 273

AT THIS JUNCTURE A SHELL OF TERRORITE
EXPLODED AMONG THE FOE WITH THRILLING
EFFECT, DESTROYING AT LEAST TWO HUNDRED
BOCKHOCKIDS, _Walter M. Dunk_, 285

HEAVENS AND EARTH! HE WAS HOLDING
LYONE IN HIS ARMS, ALIVE FROM THE LIVING
BATTERY! LYONE, THE PEERLESS SOUL
OF SOULS, ALIVE ONCE MORE AND TRIUMPHANT
OVER DEATH, _C. Durand Chapman_, 293

WE SAT THUS CROWNED AMID THE TREMENDOUS
EXCITEMENT. THE PEOPLE SHOUTED, "LIFE,
HEALTH AND PROSPERITY TO OUR SOVEREIGN
LORD AND LADY, LEXINGTON AND LYONE,
KING AND QUEEN OF ATVATABAR," _Allan B. Doggett_, 307

OI MADE BHOOLY AN' KOSHNILI KNEEL DOWN,
AN' A SOJER TIED THEIR HANDS BEHIND
THEIR BACKS. THEN OI ORDHERED A WAYLEAL
TO BEHEAD THIM WID THEIR OWN
SWORDS, _Allan B. Doggett_, 313

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INTRODUCTION.

It is proper that some explanation be made as to the position occupied
by the following story in the realm of fiction, and that a brief
estimate should be made of its literary value.

Literature may be roughly classified under two heads--the creative and
the critical. The former is characteristic of the imaginative
temperament, while the latter is analytical in its nature, and does
not rise above the level of the actual. Rightly pursued, these two
ways of searching out truth should supplement each other. The poet
finds in God the source of matter; the man of science traces matter up
to God. Science is poetry inverted: the latter sees in the former
confirmation of its airiest flight; it is synthetic and creative,
whereas science dissects and analyzes. Obviously, the most sp