Front matter
Reading edition
Methuen & Co.
36 Essex Street, Strand, London
1895
TO
H.B. MARRIOTT WATSON
Most of the stories in this collection appeared originally in the Pall Mall Budget, two were published in the Pall Mall Gazette, and one in St James’s Gazette. I desire to make the usual acknowledgments. The third story in the book was, I find, reprinted by the Observatory, and the “Lord of the Dynamos” by the Melbourne Leader.
H.G. WELLS.
CONTENTS
THE STOLEN BACILLUS
THE FLOWERING OF THE STRANGE ORCHID
IN THE AVU OBSERVATORY
THE TRIUMPHS OF A TAXIDERMIST
A DEAL IN OSTRICHES
THROUGH A WINDOW
THE TEMPTATION OF HARRINGAY
THE FLYING MAN
THE DIAMOND MAKER
AEPYORNIS ISLAND
THE REMARKABLE CASE OF DAVIDSON’S EYES
THE LORD OF THE DYNAMOS
THE HAMMERPOND PARK BURGLARY
A MOTH—GENUS NOVO
THE TREASURE IN THE FOREST