CONTENTS.

[CONTENTS]
[LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS]
[PRELIMINARY CHAPTER]
[CHAPTER I. FROM 10 P.M. TO 10. 46' 40'']
[CHAPTER II. THE FIRST HALF HOUR]
[CHAPTER III. THEY MAKE THEMSELVES AT HOME AND FEEL QUITE COMFORTABLE]
[CHAPTER IV. FOR THE CORNELL GIRLS]
[CHAPTER V. THE COLDS OF SPACE]
[CHAPTER VI. INSTRUCTIVE CONVERSATION]
[CHAPTER VII. A HIGH OLD TIME]
[CHAPTER VIII. THE NEUTRAL POINT]
[CHAPTER IX. A LITTLE OFF THE TRACK]
[CHAPTER X. THE OBSERVERS OF THE MOON]
[CHAPTER XI. FACT AND FANCY]
[CHAPTER XII. A BIRD'S EYE VIEW OF THE LUNAR MOUNTAINS]
[CHAPTER XIII. LUNAR LANDSCAPES]
[CHAPTER XIV. A NIGHT OF FIFTEEN DAYS]
[CHAPTER XV. GLIMPSES AT THE INVISIBLE]
[CHAPTER XVI. THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE]
[CHAPTER XVII. TYCHO]
[CHAPTER XVIII. PUZZLING QUESTIONS]
[CHAPTER XIX. IN EVERY FIGHT, THE IMPOSSIBLE WINS]
[CHAPTER XX. OFF THE PACIFIC COAST]
[CHAPTER XXI. NEWS FOR MARSTON!]
[CHAPTER XXII. ON THE WINGS OF THE WIND]
[CHAPTER XXIII. THE CLUB MEN GO A FISHING]
[CHAPTER XXIV. FAREWELL TO THE BALTIMORE GUN CLUB]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

[1. HIS FIRST CARE WAS TO TURN ON THE GAS]
[2. DIANA AND SATELLITE]
[3. HE HELPED ARDAN TO LIFT BARBICAN]
[4. MORE HUNGRY THAN EITHER]
[5. THEY DRANK TO THE SPEEDY UNION OF THE EARTH AND HER SATELLITE]
[6. DON'T I THOUGH? MY HEAD IS SPLITTING WITH IT!]
[7. POOR SATELLITE WAS DROPPED OUT]
[8. THE BODY OF THE DOG THROWN OUT YESTERDAY]
[9. A DEMONIACAL HULLABALOO]
[10. THE OXYGEN! HE CRIED]
[11. A GROUP à la Jardin Mabille]
[12. AN IMMENSE BATTLE-FIELD PILED WITH BLEACHING BONES]
[13. NEVERTHELESS THE SOLUTION ESCAPED HIM]
[14. IT'S COLD ENOUGH TO FREEZE A WHITE BEAR]
[15. THEY COULD UTTER NO WORD, THEY COULD BREATHE NO PRAYER]
[16. THEY SEEMED HALF ASLEEP IN HIS VITALIZING BEAMS]
[17. THESE ARCHES EVIDENTLY ONCE BORE THE PIPES OF AN AQUEDUCT]
[18. ARDAN GAZED AT THE PAIR FOR A FEW MINUTES]
[19. OLD MAC DISCOVERED TAKING OBSERVATIONS]
[20. FOR A SECOND ONLY DID THEY CATCH ITS FLASH]
[21. HOW IS THAT FOR HIGH?]
[22. EVERYWHERE THEIR DEPARTURE WAS ACCOMPANIED WITH THE MOST TOUCHING SYMPATHY]

PRELIMINARY CHAPTER,

RESUMING THE FIRST PART OF THE WORK AND SERVING AS AN INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND.

A few years ago the world was suddenly astounded by hearing of an experiment of a most novel and daring nature, altogether unprecedented in the annals of science. The BALTIMORE GUN CLUB, a society of artillerymen started in America during the great Civil War, had conceived the idea of nothing less than establishing direct communication with the Moon by means of a projectile! President Barbican, the originator of the enterprise, was strongly encouraged in its feasibility by the astronomers of Cambridge Observatory, and took upon himself to provide all the means necessary to secure its success. Having realized by means of a public subscription the sum of nearly five and a half millions of dollars, he immediately set himself to work at the necessary gigantic labors.