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146 BIBLIOGRAPHY, NEWS, AND NOTES H. G. WELLS By Alfred Borrello We published Robert P. Weeks' annotated bibliography of writings about Wells not listed in West's 1926 and 1930 volumes or Brome's 1951 volume InEFT, I: 1 (1957), 37-^2, and additional items in various numbers since then. Omitted from the annual listing in ELT, XIV» 1 (1971), the present list brings up to date publications on Wells since our listing in ELT. XIII: 1 (1970). Professor Borrello (Mercer County Community College) and Professor William Scheick (University of Texas, Austin) are preparing the full-scale secondary bibliography for the A. S. E. Series being published by N.I.U. Press. Amis, Kingsley. "Cosmic Despair," New York Times Book Review. 22 Oct I967, p. 6. In The Future as Nightmare. Hillegas shows how much there is still to be said about HGW. He defends HGW against the charges of blind belief in "progress, infatuation with gadgets, political credibility and optimism ." Brander, Laurence. E. M. Förster» A Critical Study (Lond: Rupert-Hart-Davis, 1968), pp. 7^, 102, 154, 210, 212, 217; index. Forster*s "The Machine Stops" "was written in reaction to one of the earlier heavens of H. G. Wells." Forster's short stories, "eleven fantasies," go "one further" than HGW in science fiction and "demonstrate that the world is shattered." Dickson, Lovat. H. G. Wells: His Turbulent Life and Times (Lond: Atheneum, 1969). For reviews, see Harris Wilson, in ELT, XIII: 1 (1970), 85-86; Warren Wagar, in Virginia Quarterly Review. XLV (Autumn I969), 693-97; and the relevant abstracts in the present listing. Glikin, Gloria. "Through the Novelist's Looking Glass," Kenyon Review, XXXI (I969), 297-319. Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage contains a "brilliant full-length portrait" of HGW in Hypo G. Wilson. She is HGW's "best biographer." Hillegas, Mark. The Future as Nightmare: H. G, Wells and the Ant 1-Utοϕ Ians (Lond» Oxford U P, I967T. For a review, see Kingsley Amis, in New York Times Book Review. 22 Oct I967, p. 6, and the relevant abstract in the present listing. Hughes, David Y. "H. G. Wells: Ironic Romancer," Extrapolation. VI (May I965), 32-38. Previously unnoted sources of three of HGW's stories are» for "The Sea Raiders" (I896) an article in Nature. Jan. I896 on the death of a cachalot; H. N. Hutchinson's Extlnct Monsters (I893) is the source of "AepyoinIs Island" (1894); and H. W. Bates' The Naturalist on the River Amazons (I86I) is the source of "The Empire of the Ants." Kazin, Alfred. "H. G. Wells, America and 'The Future,'" American Scholar. XXXVII (Winter 1967-68), 137-44. HGW perhaps never 147 grasped just how "odd, creative, utterly personal and »other worldly' [his] obsessive searching after the future was." His "faith" was in his "passion for reading the future." The Future in America shows HGW "disturbed" by the treatment of Negroes, the hysteria against "agitators" and revolutionaries . Yet, he approached America as a "field of energy and power, as an example of Human motion and ambition on a new scale." Nicolson, Nigel. Great Houses of Britain (Lond» The Hamlyn Publishing Group, 1968), pp. 152-58. T. description, with photographs , of Uppark, where HGW produced The Uppark Alarmist, a daily newspaper, his "first literary composition.''' The author quotes HGW» "The place had a great effect on me." Λ photograph is included of the basement kitchen and the table at which HGW wrote when he lived in the house with his mother, the housekeeper. Philmus, Robert M. "Into the Unknowns The Evolution of Science Fiction from Francis Godwin to H. G. Wells," Dissertation Abstracts. XXIX (Nov 1968), 1545Λ. The Invisible Man (the myth of the "modern Faust"), The Time Machine (the theme of the "measure measured"). The Island of Dr. Moreau (HGW's adaptation of the doctrine of "speciâT creation"), The First Men in the Moon (in which the author points out that HGW- "rev1ë"ws synoptically the myths of earlier scientific romances ") all represent early stages In the evolution of science fiction. Platzner, Robert L. "H. G. Wells' 'Jungle Book's The Influence of Kipling on The Island of Dr. Moreau." Victorian Newsletter . XXXVI TT969), 19-22. Although Bergonzi...

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