The Fortnightly Review: No. CCCCLXIII, New Series [‎562r] (14/239)

Fortnightly Review Advertiser,
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iW A MOST REMARKABLE ENTHUSIASM -»i
Has greeted the Publication of
Mr. H. G. WELLS’S
Imaginative and Picturesque Sociological Study,
A MODERN UTOPIA
and the critics are unanimous in considering it
. his FINEST and MOST POPULAR WORK .
READ THEIR OPINIONS.
THE ATHEN/EUM says:
“THERE HAS BEEN NO WORK OF THIS IMPORTANCE
PUBLISHED FOR THE LAST THIRTY YEARS.
“IT IS AN AMAZINGLY ABLE CONSTITUTION, AND ONE
WONDERS THAT IT SHOULD BE THE OUTCOME OF A
SINGLE MIND.
“THIS ASTONISHING BOOK IS A PIECE OF WORK WHICH
EMBODIES IMAGINATIVE SCIENCE AT ITS HIGHEST.”
“ ‘ A Modern Utopia’ ought to set people talking and discussing. Mr. Wells’s
ideas are always stimulating and crisply expressed. Domestic politics would
become interesting again if Mr. Wells could convert a few statesmen to his way of
thinking.” —Daily Telegraph.
“ The book has high value, and a significance that should not be overlooked, for
it indicates both clearly and with some gaiety the course which civic and spiritual
endeavours should follow if the world is not to revert to the type established in
the Middle Ages.”— Alorning Post.
“ Mr. Wells’s book is interesting precisely because it challenges criticism and
opposition. It is a book of great originality, the result of real thinking—a
criticism of life by an acute and reflective observer who throws his work into a
most attractive form.”— Westminster Gazette.
“ Broadly conceived and brilliantly written. . , . Full of profound thought, of
brilliant imaginative effort, with a background of sociological and economical
possibilities which will stimulate interest in many world-problems of to-day.”—
Daily Chronicle.
“The work is crowded with thought and suggestion, with all those character
istics of candour and sincerity which have made Mr. Wells the author perhaps
best worth reading of modern English writers engaged in the function of
prophecy.”—Mr. C. F. G. Masterman in the Daily News.
“ Mr. Wells’s is much the most scientific and sensible construction of a Future
based on the Present that I have ever read.” — Mr. H. Hamilton Fyfe in
Evening News.
Mr. H. G. WELLS’S Finest WorK:
MODERN UTOPIA
Illustrated by EDMUND J. SULLIVAN.
Crown 8vo . . . 7s. 6dL.
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