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MR. H. G. WELLS' LATEST. ..

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MR. H. G. WELLS' LATEST. OUTLINE OF HISTORY." MR. H. G. WELLS' new work is an am- bitious one; lie has been engaged on it, in some form or other, for many years, and his publishers advertise it as the first book of its kind. It is to be pub- lished serially in fortnightly parts. The scheme of this great work, The Out- line of History (the first part of which is being published by George Newnes, Ltd., this week), is set out in the open- ing sentence: "This 'Outline of His- tory is an .attempt to tell, truly and clearly, in one continuous narrative, the whole story of life and mankind so far as it is known to-day. It is written plainly for the general reader, but its aim goes beyond its use as merely inter- esting reading matter." It is a plain story of life and man- kind. Mr. Wells begins with the far origins of the world's life, and the first part is devoted to The Making of Our World." He gives us a dear idea of the world's probable origin, of the earth in space and time, of the record of the rocks, and the slow creeping up of life upon the land from its first beginnings in the shallow sea. Mr. Wells proceeds to give a no less interesting account of the ancestry of man and the beginnings of civilisation. Of all this he tells us "it is now possible to tell a plain story." The language of Mr. Wells, as always, is admirably simple. The facts are expressed in "easily-understood phrases. His aim is to tell how our present state of affairs, this distressed and multifarious human life about us, arose in the course of vast ages and out of the inanimate clash of matter, and to estimate the quality and amount and irange of the hopes with which it now faces its destiny." This "outline" deals with ages and races and nations, where the ordinary history deals with reigns/and pedigrees and campaigns; but it will not be found to be more crowded with names and dates nor more difficult to follow and under- stand. In further instalments we are pro- mised a.n "outline" story of the rise and fall of the Early Empire; of what the career of Alexander the Great signi- fied to the world of men. The rise of Christianity is dealt with, and we are led on to great world epochs, to the liberation of North and South America from Europe, to the modernisation of Japan, to the French Revolution and the adventure of Napoleon, and finallv to the Gemma disaster. It is a clear, compact, but full view of universal history, told in one contigu- ous vivid narrative. It is history made as thrilling as romance, Mr. Wells' work is not a mere essay but a clear, luminous, concentrated summary of the latest knowledge

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