"Mr. Rudyard Kipling's place in the world of letters is unique. He sits quite aloof and alone, the incomparable and inimitable master of the exquisitely fine art of short-story writing. Mr. Robert Louis Stevenson has perhaps written several tales which match the run of Mr. Kipling's work, but the best of Mr. Kipling's tales are matchless, and his latest collection, 'Many Inventions,' contains several such."--_Philadelphia Press._
"Of late essays in fiction the work of Kipling can be compared to only three--Blackmore's 'Lorna Doone,' Stevenson's marvelous sketch of Villon in the 'New Arabian Nights,' and Thomas Hardy's 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles.'... It is probably owing to this extreme care that 'Many Inventions' is undoubtedly Mr. Kipling's best book."--_Chicago Post._
"Mr. Kipling's style is too well known to American readers to require introduction, but it can scarcely be amiss to say there is not a story in this collection that does not more than repay a perusal of them all."--_Baltimore American._
"As a writer of short stories Rudyard Kipling is a genius. He has had imitators, but they have not been successful in dimming the luster of his achievements by contrast.... 'Many Inventions' is the title. And they are inventions--entirely original in incident, ingenious in plot, and startling by their boldness and force."--_Rochester Herald._
"How clever he is! This must always be the first thought on reading such a collection of Kipling's stories. Here is art--art of the most consummate sort. Compared with this, the stories of our brightest young writers become commonplace."--_New York Evangelist._
"Taking the group as a whole, it may be said that the execution is up to his best in the past, while two or three sketches surpass in rounded strength and vividness of imagination anything else he has done."--_Hartford Courant._
"Fifteen more extraordinary sketches, without a tinge of sensationalism, it would be hard to find.... Every one has an individuality of its own which fascinates the reader."--_Boston Times._
_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._