The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-11-13

Set Free.'' . novel enaDodyfng all his characteristic assets, and ''spcaal Forces In Europe and America ,'' a vol tune vva1ch is exactly what its tifle i'm plies.
 A writer for the Book News sRsntnly who has recently had the pEfvnege of visiting Wells in; his home describes his personal axpearance and hds home. He says:
 Wells ass little man. He is thin, and go Is his hair His eyes are uniu- pressfve, and his mustache is stragglE. No one failing to know him would guess the presence of HngIands great estwritsr. . His eyes are brown asad kindly and set deaply beneath Q forehead acrosp which unruIy strands Of reddish lronEn4 hair -perstg4Sdn stTay~ Ing.
 In 1sss yEa11ee gables ana aFsnamgs in strong contrast to the century old ivy stands the rect0ry, a low, rambling house built in the days when George I. was king And there, too, lying at full length upon the. grass in the midst of a very chaos of toy engines, forts and Ieaden soldiers, was MT Wells, no whit less interested than were his two sons, boys of some ten and eleven years, who played beAl1e h1m.
 Leaving the boys to their game, MT. Wells took me to the hcune ,azad t1geth- CT we entered the low, cool roozn tEaaE is his study. Here by the open window stood his desk, and the breeze nutteFed the leaves of a manuscript upon which X he had been working earlAer in the day. ss1Around the walls were well abocked < bookcases, with here and there a sim ply framed picture.
 During short walk he showed me the various things of Interest about the place. A herd of gentle deer. quietly E grazing beyond boundary fence, look E ed ID in sudden alarm at our approach Just back of the rectory, but sheltered from view by screen Of elu7a, is the pond upon which Mr. Wells and his sons venture throughout long summer afternoons, tlaear argOsy g venefabla punt.
 His Fsassori&B Book FaNuss.
 Later MT. Wells discussed his nter- ary work He said that ssHr. Pozlya Mas one of his favc9ltes though In E1ngaand 1t had newer been successful enough tO soar beyond ! two shfI1ina < ed9tion
 He partialEy assented that much Of ! his work is utoi11ograrhical: { tsHvery novel is to some degree aufp- Geographical inasmuch as the author 4consciously or unconsciously puts into M more or less of himself Tn regarF to n1y own work, much Of the early portions of sTonO Bungay' and o6 The New Nachiavelai' may be said to be the result of my own experienced. I l am nat a university man, nor for the work in which have engaged do I feel it to be n disadv antage Oxford and Caxnbrf1ge are amat1 lions Of the past We need more of the spirit Of l hudayss
 AxseRfca MT. VFezas feels to be the tzus expression Of the new phase. Not 1 Ehe Amerfca of today. but the America of the future q must revisit the United States,s he said between ] psrzEs at his briar. tEven since my last trip conditions have change beyond be- haf- New forces are at work You have space and you are stiu young. l You have hope.
 He is an outdoors man, fond of mo toring and cE1cket and keenly interest ed in aviation, as is shown in his books. l 'al he War In the Air, 2 The First Men h the Moon. and .grhe Sleeper AHaazes" all center about the conquest Of the air, while aviation is included in The Now Machieveiiln z .aTono- Bun gay's and sshfarr1age's 2
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 Nfrstes of His Own Life.
 Writing of his own lite few years age Mir. Wells said:
 i z1he HheRaxy life Is one of the mod ern forms of adventure. Success with book even a commercially modest success. as mine has been, means in the English speaking world not mere ly q moderate financial independence, but the utmost freedom of movement I and dinfereourNe.
 z poor man Is lifted out of his nar- row circumstances into familiar and unrestrafned intercourse with great variety of people: He sees the world If his work excites interest he meets philosophers, scientific men, soldiers, arfsts, professional men,. politicians of all sorts, the rich, the great, and he may make such use of them as he can.
 t1ke finds htnself no longer reading In boesrs and papers, but hearing and touching at first hand the big discus sions that sway men, the Initiatives that shape hnman affairs. And Lon don is more than the capital of g fzingGA0na; 1t is the center of world empire and of worldwide enterprises.
 Fpksr1seay Interested Ia Lilo. To be literary artist is to want to I give ea1e's impress1cns Of the things about one. Life has interested me enornously and filled me with ideas and assoctat1ons want to present again. have liked life and like it more and more
 I The days in the shop and the serv- auts, haH fhe stradtened struggles of tnv early manhood, have stored me with vivid memories that nluminats and help me ko, appreciate all the wider vastas of my later social experiences. I have friends and intfrnates now at al- most every social level, from that of a peer to that of a pauper, and I find nv syruuaf1ffez s11d crIT40s4fdes ztrefcIl-