THIS is an ambitious book, both in conception and in execution. It is a bold thing to conceive the world’s history from primal chaos to 1920 and after, and it is even bolder to assume that this can be ...

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 ...

THIS is a new work covering the same ground as the “Outline of History” and in the same spirit, but re-written and better written, and correcting many of the faults of judgment and proportion which ...

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 ...