Show THE END OF THE WORLD while writing 0 with at al the scientific knowledg knowledge g a of a great astronomer camille Flam marion in his marvellous marcellous marv ellous story 01 OMEGA the end of the wo world ald which begins in the april number of the cosmopolitan m magazine a bazine keeps the reader at the highest m point of excitement by hi his vi vivid vid description of the alarm and in despair excited by the approach of a comet whose collision with tile earth had been declared by astronomers inevitable thu the description beins begins be 0 ins at a time when the buts business iness of the world has been suspended and at a great mass meeting held in the in institute S 7 itule of france we hear the di cassion of scientists ests i as to the possibility of a second deluge the drying up of all the surface water of t the lie globe dr the total destruction truc tion of human life by cold together ether with all tile the possible phases of death parallel led by the history of the moon for merit ment and sensational effect this characteristic production of french genius is unique and the reader who reads this marvelous story and if he begins it lie he will c certainly erta finish it will have assimilated without effort a compact store of scientific knowledge in this way dav apart from its absorbing interest this remarkable piece of fiction will liavaa have a distinct scientific value |