An absorbing tale of adventure and romance forty-three million miles from Earth. It is hardly too much to say it is the boldest piece of imaginative fiction in this generation. John Carter, American, goes to sleep in a mysterious cave in the Arizona desert and when he wakes up finds himself on the planet Mars. There he meets with a succession of weird and astounding adventures, told in that fas- cinating and realistic way that makes Burroughs easily the foremost romanticist of his time. Think