Front matter

by

C. L. GRAVES AND E. V. LUCAS

Reprint of the 1898 ed. published by J. W. Arrowsmith Bristol, Eng.

[Illustration: PORTRAIT OF THE INVISIBLE AUTHOR. (From a Negative by THE SPECTROSCOPIC Co.)]

THE WAR OF THE WENUSES

Translated from the Artesian of H. G. Pozzuoli

Author of The Treadmill, The Isthmus of Dr. Day, The Vanishing Lady, etc., etc.

by

C. L. GRAVES AND E. V. LUCAS

"Not novels and poetry swipes, but ideas, science, books" The Artilleryman

[Illustration: Arrowsmith colophon]

TO

H. G. WELLS

THIS OUTRAGE ON A FASCINATING AND CONVINCING ROMANCE