An Englishman Looks at the World. By H. G. Wells.
(Cassell and Co. 6s. net.)—This collection of newspaper articles is a heterogeneous compendium of Mr. Wells's im- pressions of modern life, which it is easier to read than to criticize. The author's well-known intolerance of our social and political methods sometimes leads him into exaggeration —as when he describes Members of Parliament as " intellec- tual riff-raff," or condemns the Army Council as "half-way back to bows and arrows" on the strength of an inspection of the Legion of Frontiersmen. "The expert 'quack' and the bureaucratic intriguer increase and multiply in a dull-minded, uncritical, strenuous period as disease germs multiply in darkness and beat." Mr. Wells goes too far on this line; but his criticism is always suggestive and frequently just.
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