A FORGOTTEN NOVEL.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." J
read with peculiar interest the article in the Spectator of February 5th on " A Forgotten Novel," not forgotten by myself, if by many of its readers. I know of no work of fiction which so powerfully impressed me as Percy Greg's "Across the Zodiac to Mars." During its reading I was affected by a consuming fear, especially on the journey out. The utter loneliness in space, the sport of mechanical energy, without the hint of a protecting band or power in the universe, was vividly realised, and with a fascination holding one in a grip from which nothing could possibly release one. I should like to express through your calumns my personal feeling, should it be worth notice, as a testimony to the author's genius and power of imagination
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