The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-23
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 A diametrically opposite theory holds that vacation time offers op- portunity for filling in the gaps in that broad and general course or reading which educated men and women are assumed to have covered and which so very, very few Of them really have. Paradise Lost slips easily into a pocket and with diligence can be absorbed even dur ing a two weeks vacation. Carlyle "F'rederick the Great" Is equally solid but somewhat less portable. Ind recent earnest article vigorously urged certain works of religious dogma as ideal summer companions, naively arguing that most people would never read them at home
 some confines" and Mir. Wells
 If one hasn't had time to read MT. H. G. Wells's wonderful book The Outline of History" (The Macmillan oompany, publishers, New York city) midsummer offers alluring advant- tsges.
 sThe Outline of History" Is now published in one volume which IS or great convenience. and this com plete revision of MT. Wellss history adds new importance to his brilliant story of the development of man kind.
 Answering the enthusiastic praise as well as the constructive criticism of scholars and reading public, MT. Wells has reexamined every page or his book, correcting and modifying, hut sacrificing neither the fascinat- ing style nor the magnificent sweep of his general plan.
 This new edition presents the ma ture work of MT. Wells, the historl- an; an authentic record Of world his- tory backed by the authority or spe- cialists in all fields and interpreted by one aof the keenest minds or the day. In it's ne-volume form, thls adition offers reader and student the most convenient and attractive ar rxngement for study and easy refer ence-
 Mr. wells has done what no other professional historian has been able to do: interest the average inteiil- gent reader in history.
 Tn "The Secret Places of the Heart" (The Macmillan company publishers New York eity) MT. Welis shows his remarkable versatii,y his ability to handle any subject from history to PsSS est novel dealing with the latter subject.
 Tn fact no problem, historical. so- cial or psychological. seems to prove too confused for this aston ishing author to employ it as ma terial for novel.
 Here Is Mir. Wells at his most en- gazing and his most chimerical' The rocket flare of his ideas illum ines sthe province of psychiatry anu the fascinating fringes of psychoan- alysis. The book is a searchlight thrown upon the heart of Sir Rich mond, a type of the clear-sighted, keen-witted intensely egctistical En- ' glishman.
 The story teens with MT. wells's amazing generalities thrown orr with his own irresistible buoyancy. A winning American girl companions Sir Richmond in his progression rom ideas of purely personal pleasure to a conception of himself as an instru- ment to the great onward march of civilization. The rainble of these two entertaining people through the green lanes and by the flowery hedges of summer England their lin- gerings by ancient ruins1-the mono liths4 s4and dolmens of Stonehenge and Avebury--thcir lively dissertations 
 facts and hypotheses of history. all make a novel that is constantly and joyouslv refreshing.
 Mir. Wells. who outlines" so beau tifully 6oes not escape "outlining" himself and in the remarkably read able story by Sidney Dark, entitled, "An Outline of Wers' (with an Introduction to the American Edition by Haywood Broun). co. P. Put nams Sons publishers. York city) we have the author who is the editor of "John O'London's Weekly" in- troducing MT. Wells as follows:
 "A short, stocky man with a scrubby mustache and a high pitched voice; a man nearer 60 than 50, out looking considerably younger: a man whose like you can see a thousand times a day in every city's streets. Such superficially is H. G. Wells.
 s'The weakness of most supermen is their unlikeness to their fellows and this unlikeness is often quite as obvious physically as it is mentally