28 JANUARY 1865, Page 21

The History of a Voyage to the Moon. (Lockwood and

Go.)—If the writer had been lucky enough to live before Edgar Poe he might have got credit, but as his idea is unfortunately the same as that writer's people will say he borrowed it. So far as the details differ from Poe's, as in the long preamble and the character of the supposed machine, they want the absurd air of probability which Poo has managed to give to his, and the description of the moon itself is a tedious -Utopia.