THE ANATOMY OF FRUSTRATION By H. G. Wells This book
(Cresset Press, 7s. 6d.) appeared not long since in serial form in the columns of The Spectator. To define its position in the body of Mr. Wells's work, one might describe it as a distillation of the thoughts and con- clusions contained in what has gone before. It strikes a very intimate note, and written .in its author's seventieth 'Year bears somewhat the character of a testament. To overcome " frustration " and to open to mankind that larger and healthier life of spiritual freedom and material comfort, which the present stage of human Isnowledge. would warrant, has been the aim, implicit or explicit, in nearly all Mr. Wells's writings. Here he draws it into the open ; and while employing the indirect device of expounding the views of an imaginary writer, tries to lay bare his own most essential thinking on the main aspects of life as he sees it. Readers who enjoyed it piecemeal in serial form will welcome the opportunity of re-surveying its argument as a whole ; and to others, who missed it then, may be commended now an utterance of rare quality, vision, and stimulus.
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