Verne's story describes a trip on the 'Great Eastern,' from Liverpool to New York, and a journey afterwards up the Hudson and to the Falls of Niagara. The descriptive parts of the story are free from Verne's well-known peculiarities, and therefore seem tame coming from his pen; but in making ' the floating city' the scene of a dramatic love story, he is all himself again-particularly at the end, where the hero engages in a duel on deck in the night during a frightful storm, and his antagonist c