MR. WELLS'S world history was first written in 1918-1919 and revised in 1920 and 1923. Even in the short period which has since elapsed, discoveries of new material have been made in almost every part ...

The Story. Outlines— of History — of Science — of Art large, impressive looking books — copiously illustrated — well printed — mental bouillon cubes for an age that takes its information like its ...

People laugh at Sir Francis Bacon nowadays because he said: “I take all learning to be my province.” Yet, if anyone has in his library the series of “Outlines” published nowadays—The Outline of ...

IN this first part of his “Outline of History” Mr. H. G. Wells has surpassed the old author who carried the Trojan war back to Leda's eggs, for he begins with our solar system as a nebula condensing ...