Genre:

Regular Feature, Abstract

Publications abstracted:

Allen 1895a Clodd 1895a Jackson 1895 Lyde 1895 Besant 1895 Wells 1895a

Subjects:

Botany, Philosophy, Heredity, Darwinism, Human Species, Archaeology, Exploration, Physical Geography, Theosophy, Science Fiction, Time, Futurism, Degeneration, Entropy

    Suggests that although the new novel by Herbert G Wells has already appeared serially, 'it more than bears re-reading—it welcomes it'. Indeed, the book is full of 'qualities so novel and ingenious that [it] is sure to make a sensation', and the whole 'unusually exciting' tale is 'admirably done, in a manner worthy of Poe, and marks Mr. Wells as a writer who will have to be reckoned with' (91).