Herbert George Wells

H. G. WELLS

The great English author and (since one is tempted to differentiate the two nowadays) thinker, arrived in America, twinklyeyed, but full of dire prophecies about the future of civilization—if the world were not, forthwith, turned over to the economists. After exposing himself to the rigors of American depression, and the unlimited inquisitiveness of American interviewers, the bland little man departed, doubtless aware that it was he who had derived profit from the depression, and information from the interviewers. Perceptibly, the twinkle had deepened, but so had his prognostications of international gloom.

H. G. Wells has written seventy-odd books; books theological, philosophical, political, economic, and romantic, including several mammoth "outlines" which are full of meaty scientific and historical stuffing. Possessed of the rich, medieval qualities of scholarliness and fecundity, the Wellsian brain adds a lively, versatile modern note. It (one thinks of anything so vast as dissociated from its possessor) has recently delivered itself of a new epic, The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind