7 APRIL 1928, Page 28

In T.P.'s Weekly, Mr. H. G. Wells begins his new

novel The Open Conspiracy. The bits' we are given suffer, we imagine, from_ the editorial' necessity for selection and coin- pression ; however, Mr. Wells can hardly fail to be interesting and interest there undoubtedly is here. He tells us this book is to be his final slimming up on the duty and destiny of man. " This is my religion," says the author : we shall buy an instalment of it every week.