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Title: The War of the Wenuses

Author: C. L. Graves and E. V. Lucas

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THE WAR OF THE WENUSES

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

CONTENTS

BOOK I.--The Coming of the Wenuses.

Chapter

I. "JUST BEFORE THE BATTLE, MOTHER"

II. THE FALLING STAR

III. THE CRINOLINE EXPANDS

IV. HOW I REACHED HOME

BOOK II.--London Under the Wenuses.

I. THE DEATH OF THE EXAMINER

II. THE MAN AT UXBRIDGE ROAD

III. THE TEA-TRAY IN WESTBOURNE GROVE

IV. WRECKAGE

V. BUBBLES

APPENDIX A

APPENDIX B

BOOK I.

The Coming of the Wenuses.

The Coming of the Wenuses.

* * * * *

I.

"JUST BEFORE THE BATTLE, MOTHER."

No one would have believed in the first years of the twentieth century
that men and modistes on this planet were being watched by intelligences
greater than woman's and yet as ambitious as her own. With infinite
complacency maids and matrons went to and fro over London, serene in the
assurance of their empire over man. It is possible that the mysticetus
does the same. Not one of them gave a thought to Wenus as a source of
danger, or thought of it only to dismiss the idea of a