+ – Spec. 97: 683. N. 3, ’06. 2320w.
Wells, Herbert George. [In the days of the comet.] †$1.50. Century.
A young middle-class Englishman loves a girl who elopes with the son of a landed proprietor. The outraged suitor pursues the couple, bent upon murder and suicide. Then the comet intervenes. It strikes the earth and diffuses a trance-producing vapor. When the world wakens there are no longer passions and rivalries. At this point the author works out a state of socialistic reform characterized by brotherhood principles. The hero finds love an impersonal thing with none of the old proprietary limitations. Woman to him becomes the “shape and color of the divine principle that lights the world,” and whether wife or friend he may love her without reproach.
“An earnest and exceedingly interesting book.”
+ Acad. 71: 266. S. 15, ’06. 180w.
“Is far more than an interesting romance written in the fine literary style that marks the works of this popular imaginative novelist.”
+ Arena. 36: 683. D. ’06. 380w.
“It remains as a whole a fine testimony to the imagination and intellect of one of the most original thinkers of the day.”
+ Ath. 1906, 2: 362. S. 29. 640w. Current Literature. 41: 700. D. 06. 880w.