Books: Life of Life

THE SCIENCE OF LIFE—H. G. Wells, Julian S. Huxley, G. P. Wells—Doubleday, Doran ($10).

The firm of Wells, Huxley & Wells, taking heart from the success of the senior partner's Outline of History, have produced a comparable outline of Life itself —all the way from a study of the body as a machine to the experiments of spiritualism, the latest theories of consciousness. Says the senior partner of himself: "[He] is the least well equipped scientifically. His share has been mainly literary and editorial and he is responsible for the initiation and...