18 SEPTEMBER 1926, Page 31

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On the eve of his sixtieth birthday, .Mr. H. G. Wells has Engaged in a very youthful and amusing fight with Mr. Belloc, ,whom he accuses of writing arrant 'nonsense in his counter blast to_ The Outline of History. Mr. _Wells' Mr. Bettor Objects to the Outline of History (Watts, ls.) is the Huxley-Gladstone controversy up to date : i.e.- Evolution v. Fixity. ' A 'little heavy in parts, it is none the leis well worth reading: -