H. G. WELLS
Sir,-I beg leave to wag my head over your H. G. Wells Editorial, to divide it like Gaul in three parts, and to itemise it as follows: 1. Triyialities, namely, his birthday and diabetes. 2. Things best not said, i.e., the senility of the personal attacks on Hoare, Vansittart, and Acland in 42 to 44. . 3. Undue emphasis on reforming zeal, "died fighting for the unlimited right, etc." In all humility I suggest there were better wares to display. Was this a picture of the man who entertained us with
the flaring horror of "The Cove" and the creeping evil of "Pollock and the Porroh Man"; a picture of a writer never surpassed as an artist of the short story? In short, the consummate storyteller of the age was dismissed as a diabetic reformer and I was cheated of my usual weekly bonne bouche in your Editorial.
VINCENT
COUNTY
(Eastbourne).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 375, 30 August 1946, Page 5
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153H. G. WELLS New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 375, 30 August 1946, Page 5
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