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Partant de la Provence, Georges Renard prend le lecteur en route à travers toutes les régions de la France. Ces 23 vignettes humoristiques ainsi que poétiques devraient donner envie de visiter ces sites intéressants et d'y passer un petit séjour. - Summary by Sonia

Un jeune homme revient de l’étranger, ses affaires n’ayant pas eu le succès escompté. Il va rendre visite à son oncle, chirurgien réputé pour ses greffes, qui s’est retiré dans son château des Ardennes. Devant son accueil peu chaleureux, il serait reparti sans la présence d’une charmante jeune femme dont il tombe amoureux. Il va donc s’ingénier à découvrir les secrets cachés dans le laboratoire où cet homme officie avec 3 aides allemands. Qu’est-il arrivé aux deux autres collaborateurs présents au début du projet ? Quelle est donc cette invention qui doit rapporter des millions ? - Summary by Isad

3New Bodies for Old

By Maurice Renard

Maurice Renard's little known but delightfully bizarre tale of mad science run amok owes much to H. G. Wells' The Island of Dr. Moreau while also forging its own path by taking Wells' plot as a starting point and pushing it to ridiculous extremes. When a young man named Nicholas goes to visit his beloved scientist uncle Dr. Lerne in a remote French chateau, he is immediately put on his guard by his uncle's strange behavior, the mysterious Germans who now work with his uncle in a secret laboratory on the premises, on the strange noises he hears in the night... But Nicholas' desire to discover what his uncle's secret experiments are truly all about coupled with his strong desire for the young woman Emma who is staying with his uncle may soon find Nicholas in a greater peril that he ever possibly could have dreamed. - Summary by Ben Tucker

M. Maurice Renard is a modern French author with a wide reputation won by his imaginative scientific romances. This story of a thrilling adventure in the air while recalling the exploits of Jules Verne's heroes owes but little to that master who anticipated so many of the scientific appliances which have since become accomplished facts. Supposititious as it may be, it comes legitimately under the heading of "intelligent anticipation". - Summary by London Magazine, September 1910