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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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THE BOOK WINDOW. WHEREIN THE BEST NOVELS OF THE AUTUMN ARE GROUPED. WHAT are the most interesting novels of the autumn? You probably know in a general way, but not in the particular way which is useful, because practical. The autumn crop of fiction is practically -111 out, and only the harvesting remains. You are a harvester, as you are a novel- reader—everybody is. Moreover, about this time people begin to look arotrnd for the books they would like to give to friends at Christmas. So, on two grounds, I have faced the great adven- ture of going back upon the new autumn hovels, with the object of helping you to .choose among them, a good object, how- Over it may be served. The First Flight. It would be easy to write at large on the novels of the season, but perhaps it will be better, anyhow ftorn your point of view, to gather them into certain groups, in some one of which, let us hope, you will find- your heart's desire. Vell, here, in the opinion of one person ,lid that's all any personal opinion ever means—are what might be called J the most distinguished volumes of fiction Riven to us in these recent months, leav- rlflg aside Miss Daisy Ashford's Young inters, which stands by itself, a thing art: p. The Arrow of Gold, by Joseph Conrad. Fisher Unwin. 8s. net.) Saint's Progress, 'by Lucas Malet. (Ifeinemanii. 7s. net.) The Undying Fire, by II. G. Wells. Ca,,sell. 6s. net.) Deadham Hard, by Lucas Malet. .(Methuen. 7s. net.) The Outlaw, by Maurice Hewlett. (Con- stable. 6s. neL) Mrs. Mar den, bv Robert Ilichens. (Cas- sell. 7s. net.) Mountain Paths, by Maurice Maeter- iii-ick. (Methuen. 6s. net.) Seven Men, by Max Beerbohm. (Heine- mann. 7s. net.) The Great House, by Stanley Weyman. f (Murray. 7s. net.) Of Proven Quality. Next, here is a group of stories which are all from pens of proven quality and all entirely readable, as those of them you may already have sampled will tell you: The Old Madhouse, by William De Morgan. (Heinemann. 8s. net.) Beaumaroy Home From the Waty-.by •Anthony Hope. (Methuen. 6s. net.) -Robin Linnet, by E. F. Benson. .(Hutchinson. 6s. 9d. net.) A Man and His Lesson, by W. B. Max- ell. (Hutchinson. 6s. 9d. net.) The Beach of Dreams, by H. de Vere. Stacpoole. (Hutchinson. 6s. rd. net.) tGods Decide, by Richard Bagot. Methuen. 7s. net.) vTpP- the Rebels, by George Birmingham. AMethuen. 7s. net.) Jeremy, by Hugh Walpole. (Cassell. 7s. net.) j f-ove Lane, by J. C. Snaith. (Collins. net.) I/TT'nn?/ ^le Carrier, by Israel Zangwill. i(Heinemann. 7s. net.) New Wine, by Agnes and Egerton ^stle. (Collins. 7s. net.) he Lion's Mouse, by C. N. and A. M. 'Williamson.' (Methuen. 6s. net.) The World of Wonderful Reality, by ^einple Thurston. (Hodder and Stoughton. 7s. net.) Now we come to what you would de- scribe as good-croidg stories," tales .,qlhich hold the attention, whether they ;are by established writers, or writers on the way to establish themselves: The Red One, by Jack London. (Mills ånd Boon. 6s. net.) A n A to fully Big Adventure, by H Barti- ineus." (Cassell. 7s. net.) The Passage of the Barque Sappho," by J. E. Patterson. (Dent. 6s. 6d. net.) Dope, by Saxe Rohmer. (Cassell. 7s. net.) Shrieking Pit, by Arthur J. Efees. .(John Lane. 7s. net.) Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar, by Edgar Rice Burroughs. (Methuen. 6s. net.) The Minx Goes to the Front, by Mr. rncl ™frs. C. N. Williamson. (Mills and Bo3!a. 68. net.) The Wicked Marquis, by E. P. Oppen- heiru. (Hodder and Stoughton. 6e. net.) The Loudwater Mystery, by Edgar Jeph- son. (Odhams. 7s. net.) Star of India, by Alice Perrin. (Cassell. "s- net.) 7te City of Palms, by Kathlyn Rhodes. .(Hutchinson. 6s. 9d. net.) Allcgra, by Mrs. ,Allen Harker. (Mur- ray. 7s. net.) The Builders, by Ellen Glasgow. .(Murray. 7s. net,) The Strong House, by Maud Diver. .(Constable. 6s. net.) The Lamp in the Desert, by Ethel M. Oell. (Hutchinson. 6s. 9d. net.) The Hidden Valley, by Muriel Hine. .(John Lane. 7s. net.) The Veldt Trail, by Gertrude Page. (Cassell. 7s. net.) "The One Touch" Thought, a literary touch, subjects that are clamant, humour, pathos, some- thing a little individual—that is the 'c oto which distinguishes the stories ill the following list; 4^ Roads Lead to Calvary, by Jerome ■a- Jerome. (Hutchinson. 6s. 9d. net.) The Purple Jar, by Mrs. Alfred Sidg- wick. (Hutchinson. 6s. 9d. net.) Living Alone, by Stella Benson. (Mac- millan. 6s. net.) September, by Frank Swinnerton. (Methuen. 7s. net.) The Hohenzollerns in America and Other Impossibilities, by Stephen Leacock. .(John Lane. 5s. net.) Jimmy Higgins, by Upton Sinclair. (Hutchinson. 6s. 9d. net.) The Tender Conscience, by Bohum Lynch. (Seeker. 7s. net.) Legend, by Clemence Dane. (Heine- mann. 6s. net.) Storm In a Teacup, by Eden Phillpotts. (Heinemann. 7s. net.) The Sleeping Partner, by M. P. Will- cocks. (Hutchinson. 6s. 9d. net.) Time and Eternity, by Gilbert Cannan. (Chapman and Hall. 7s. net.) Blind Alley, by W. L. George. (Unwin. 9s. net.) The Younger Writers, Always it is a pleasure to speak of younger writers who have come along with wares of quality, and that is how you should look at this further list of new novels Tamarisk Town, by Sheila Kaye-Smith. (Cassell. 7s. net.) The Querrils, by Stacy Aumonier. (Methuen. 6s. net.) The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypsc, by Vicente Vlasco Ibanez. (Constable. 6s. net.) Ycllowleaf, by Sacha Gregory. (Heine- mann. 7s. net.) The Indian Drum, by William McHarg and Edwili Balmer. (Stanley Paul. 7s. net.) The Inscrutable Lovers, by Alexander Macfarlan. (Heinemann. 7s. net.) The Young Physician, by Francis Brett Young. (Collins. 7s. net.) Night and Day, by Virginia Woolf. (Duckworth. 9s. net.) Sweetapple Cove, by George van Schaick. (Skeffington. 6s. Cd. net.) The Land They Loved, by G. D. Cum- mins, (Macmillan. 6s. net.) The Tuask, by John Carnos. (Methuen. 6s. net.) There At least you are equipped with enough information to choose from the new novels of the autumn, perhaps even to advise a friend what to read or buy, and it is always gratifying to one's vanity to be able to do that—is it not? ELIOT BUCKRAM.
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NEW NOVELS. +- THE FACE OF THE WORLD." JOHANN BOJER wrote two volumes that deeply impressed all who read them in their English dress. The Great Hunger will never be forgotten by readers, and The Power of a Lie raised questions that will be long discussed by critics and psy- ohologists. We are sorry that we cannot think highly of his third book, The Face of the World (Hodder and Stoughton. 7s.). It is a weird production dealing with a crank, a man of great ability and uncertain judgment. He wishes to make the most of his life, and he succeeds in making other people miserable. He is heroic and self-denying, but in many re- spects he is inhumane. His school- mistress mother saw too late that she had been the cause of the over-develop- ment of one side of his nature, and that this led to the .eccentricities which at times ran very close to lunacy. He has no judgment of character, and that leads him. to making a mistake that was the cause of the burning of a town. As we read we are reminded of the old saying, "Every man imputes himself," and wonder whether the hero-doctor thought that men could be as wild in outlook as he was, and yet possess the restraining power he undoubtedly had. It is de- lightful to face the world with the con- viction, "Do you believe in man ? If you can save a single human being from going to the dogs, it's better than fight- ing for programmes." But does the hero succeed in saving all through his varied experiences a single human being? He starts with a wrong programme—with a false conception of life and duty, and therefore, in spite of all his resolutions and all his capacity lie makes a sad mess of his own and other people's lives. The book is nofr without power, but it is strangely unsatisfactory, and does not leave a pleasant impression o-n the mind. Some o-f its descriptive passages are well written, and we confess that the school- mistress mother is the best and most at- tractive character in the book. "THE DEATH DRUM." MARGARET PETERSON publishes through Hurst and Blackett a weird study of life in Uganda, entitled The Deatlb Drum (6s. 9d.). It deals with the pressing problem of inter-racial marri- ages and their effects on black and white relatives. We congratulate her on the restraint she has shown, for unfortu- nately a number of works that discuss the same subject have been characterised by a certain -absence of fine feeling that forbids commendation. Many characters pass across the stage. The old settler jj who marries a native, becomes rich and leaves behind him two children, one fair and the other black, is grim in his re- cognition of the mistake he made. The young man, son of an English vicarage, who is the cause of the death of the dark daughter, is contrasted with his sister who. is wooed and won by the fair son. The latter marries her in pursuit of a plan of vengeance' that could only be conceived by the disordered brain of a man of mixed origin. He brings his bride home to Africa, and then the plot becomes at once fast and exciting. We Come across a blood brother who is a member of a cannibal section that has survived from the past, chiefs who con- spire against British rule; members of the official eircles who are in touch with all that happens, and a doctor who knows when to speak and when to keep silent. Somehow the atmosphere of Cen- tral Africa comes home to us .in the pages, which, however, are spoiled by the introduction of a number of native I' words that are explained in a glossary. Why doautiiors strive to impreaders by the use of foreign words that are as easily translated in the text as ex- plained by reference in a, glossary ? This is a bad habit which should be dropped, for it annoys the careful reader and is no help to the careless. In the chapter, Mafuta's End," we have a picture of haunting strength. The Government official who is believed to be dead meets the insurgent natives. He tells them of their folly, and concludes, Yours has been the madness of a night, and it is finished." The rebels melted away, swayed by the strong personality of a man, they knew and trusted. We hope that -this book will be read and studied. It forces thought, and proves that if we are to act as the agents of civilisation in Central Africa, a high moral code must be practised. It is terrible to realise how close barbarism of its worst type is to apparent acquiescence in civilised customs. The heritage of ages cannot be overcome in a. generation, and nothing but high living will help natives to rise to the highest level they can attain. "PIJÅTONIC PETER." THE mischief that arises from what is known as platonic love is forcibly de- scribed by Mrs. Horace Tremlett in Platonic Peter (Hutchinson. 6s. 9d.). The life of a clever wife of a Provincial Mayor is the central feature of a, tale which introduces many characters drawn from "various social strata. Mrs. Trem- lett knows human nature, and never loses sight of the fact that meai and women cannot outrage convention and ignore elemental facts without paying the price. Beauty and cleverness may seem to give ground for doing things which the clever ugly or the Stupid beauty cannot attempt—but they do not.