THE WORK, WEALTH AND HAPPINESS OF MANKINDH. G. WellsDoubleday, Dor an (2 vol.: $7.50).
Francis Bacon took all knowledge to be his province, but though his ambition was large his achievement was a little provincial. Herbert George Wells, in spite of all temptations to remain an English novelist, has gone Bacon one better. Wells's syllabus of knowledge, begun with The Outline of History, continued in The Science of Life, is now concluded (he says) in The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind. Disagreeing with Poet Keats.† Wells considers that all you need to know will be found under the heads of history,...
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