Mars and Its Canals
Illustrated, 8vo, $2.50 net
"The book makes fascinating reading and is intended for the average man of intelligence and scientific curiosity. It represents mature reflection, patient investigation and observation, and eleven years' additional work and verification. . . . It is the work of a scientist who has found inspiration and joy in his work; it is full of enthusiasm, but the enthusiasm is not allowed to influence unduly a single conclusion."—Chicago Evening Post.
"It seems impossible that Mr. Lowell can raise another girder more grandly impressive and expressive of the whole fabric or take another step in his scientific syllogism that will hold us any tighter in his logic.. He has pratically reached already his 'Q. E. D.' The thing is done, apparently, except for filling in the detail. But with his racy, epigrammatic brilliancy of style, his delicate, quiet humor, his daring scientific imagination—all held in check by instructive modesty of good breeding, gayly throwing to the winds all professional airs and mere rhetorical bounce—his course will be no doubt as charming to the end as it has been steadily illuminating even for the illuminati."—Boston Transcript.
"Whether or not we choose to follow the author of this book to his ultimate inferences, he at least opens up a field of fascinating conjecture. The work is written in a style as popular as the precise enumeration of the ascertained facts permits, and if the narrative is not in all its details as entrancing as a novel, it nevertheless transports us into a region of superlatively romantic interest."—New York Tribune.
"No doubt the highest living authority on Mars and things Martian is Prof. Percival Lowell, director of the observatory at Flagstaff, Arizona, an astronomical investigator and writer known over the entire world. Professor Lowell's book, 'Mars and Its Canals,' is the final word, up to the present, on the planet and what we know of it."—Review of Reviews.
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