H. G. Wells Cracks Bones Of Life To Find The Marrow

Radio Record, Volume XII, Issue 30, 6 January 1939, Page 2

H. G. Wells Cracks Bones Of Life To Find The Marrow

BY the time this appears in print the famous scientist and novelist, Mr. H. G. Wells will have been heard by New Zealanders on the air in his first specially: arranged rebroadcast from an Australian station. Hubert George Weils is a man who, in an overcrowded profession, has been able to strike out in an entirely new line, to tap a fresh source of inspiration-to a ae.

interpret to the great world of readers a stratum of our complex society that has hitherto been ‘overiooked. The man whe knows must. always be ‘in demand. He has’ never stopped irying to instruct the world. .The beginning of the present century found him experimenting with the fantastic. Wells, -pérhaps, is the most stimulating writer in the world at the present moment-in fact for years past. He refuses to be bound by anything he may have said on a previous occasion. Consistency, that dull and much over-rated quality, is not for him. Thus he takes up with each new movement as it comes along, ex: tracts from it the essential juice, and passes on gaily to the next. There is always something in a Wells book that is stimulating and provocative. He takes hold of the latest problem of modern life and handles it after his own fashion, like a terrier with a bone. Somehow he cracks it and gets at the marrow inside.