_"Like men, and yet not like men...."_
_"... rising out of the shadow of the globe...."_
_"A consultation in Wizard Edison's laboratory...."_
_"Through this the meteor had passed...."_
_"... the ruins of ... an ancient watch tower."_
_"... another of our ships ... was destroyed."_
_"Two of the Martians were stretched dead upon the ground."_
_"He might have been a match for twenty of us."_
_"... he proceeded to teach us ... words of his language."_
_"... approaching from the eastward a large airship...."_
_"... a human being here on Mars!"_
_"The gigantic statue of their leader is THE GREAT SPHINX!"_
_"It was a panic of giants."_
These illustrations are a selection of the best from the original
newspaper installments and were redrawn for this volume by Bernard
Manley, Jr., of Chicago, Illinois.