Show jn r j L OUR LONDON LITERARY LETTER J 1 nm Special Correspondence ne London Dee Dec II 0 O CL Wells must have been mightily disgusted tell time tho other day dim to that the tue writer of n mm I work on Oil onu eu u It decidedly commonplace subject hurts has been belli abend of ot him lIh the title till of or his now IIO s JW Wf ls ro romance roo o mance m II alice The Time Food 1001 of ot the tue lottO Is I of oC course still a II lon Ion bong way va a from rota thin the hook book form torm stage As hll a n matter of ot fact Cud the advertisements of ot It ns us n a serial hind just begun to appear III In periodicals p hero the tho other day do when there thero appeared tue 1110 I announcement of ot u n volume by b Head Ilea cI which also liso bore bon time the title tithe The Tue Foot Food of ot tho time lode Gods with tho I lie titie A dt Popular Account of at the hue Preparation of oC Cocoa Of or count the coincidence attracted attention anti and It looked hooked at lit first n mis 1111 K lb I both bolh literary men must have hit hilt on Oil this lute attractive title at lit thin the satan I II III I time iliac but hUl now hOW the cocoa cocon writer declares In III a aletter aleUra letter idiom that limit Ids has hall long hang Inn for been beau In lii I preparation and amid was originally an aim announced II n over a mm I year sear ago ogo so ito Time The Time Tim Machines author In lii evidently out ot of the running As hI yet el Mr Wells elte has buns hn not been beell heard regarding the time clash cinch Per ler hups little he hp Ims been lICe II too busy hll ills with poll lieu politics ties tics most of ot the time romancers Wells Is II deeply Ite Interested III In Inthe the hue I fiscal lI questions quest hut but bum t unlike ii mull kt Ur UI Doyle no It and auth Hitler Haggard ho hun Is a II Free I reo Trailer Trader mind and In lii 1111 n mm vigorous letter let ter the oth ath other er em day tin itt referred to tu tilt the Im ini Imperialism of oC Mr Ir Chamberlain and nimit lute his followers 0 The venerable Dr lm Alfred Hussel nUH el Will nl lure lace now time the only of It that great I which Included Darwin Huxley Tyndall tells teil II a friend ot of mine that thaI he lie Is now 1101 nt lit work on oil his autobiography Hu Ill Is III as tie II a I rule mimic averse a erRe to being Interviewed but lilt I some someone one aile on Oil Time The Christian Commonwealth 1 persuaded him to break this thin rule and the flue result re Is II an men uncommonly Interest InterestIng I Ing 1111 article this week Dr Wallace In III to 10 belief hellet In imi spirits and IIII uIlo It Is possible that there may be ht somewhere In iii II Infinite space spiritual mil universes voices In by h I spiritual beings To sup suit hoie IlOse ho hue added that this one particular lar nl type of lit universe extends over all oil space 11 Is I consider to have n a low lIeu Idea of tub time tho ho Creator and Ills Hla power Thill would mean monotony Instead of or III In Infinite finite variety SatietY which Is iii the hit keynote of ot timIngs things ns nH they tile the mire lire In 10 it us UH There may hilly bo be n II million universes hut tiny they may nil all I be he b ci I ce rt a I I 1 should say not lint mill all matter We Wc e are arc all 1111 agreed that ether r Is III time the fundamental matter being Its product mind and It Is IY possible thai other ether may many have other products which are not mint perceptible by y us U Dr nr Wallace null Bald he lit believed In III tha the persistence of ot time the Ih Individual after thin the of time IIII he body ho The Lest best teacher he hi soul said seems to toino ino 1110 iio to l 1 he that we re all 1111 capable of I In Unite projection lo that untie none are so 80 bad badus us 1111 to 10 bo hI Incapable of ot advancement I r believe that Iho tho reason for rM time the existence exl of ot the time world time the explanation of oC time the problems that puzzle us tie arc lire that tho the limit Us lid mo ate to 10 the development or of tho tue highest 1 spiritual natures Dr Ur e toM told the Interviewer that lint his hlA latest work stork Mans Malis Place III In the o which Is IA perhaps time the most mo t Important book hook of ot time the uns A writ tell tiit at tit the of nr your corns corre correI I 11 I turtle Curtis Sum fh 1 Parker seldom the ti of or a it holiday lii out flU t of at I ii nil and amid his hi ii is name e Is Ii to t Ii l h 10 found nO morn iu often limit t that of H lilt any iii other oIlier writer riter hip Ihl notables at nt fashionable 1 h resorts not to 10 mention MontH ruth and Cannes II II n l Now Nos OI the tIl theauthor author of ot Th rim of lr Way Say 11 Is II oft off fT for und will not hot return I to iii I this country until the tue end of ot January a t S There will be he In imi thin hula comb coun country try tl If It the time original manuscript of ot time tilt first took book of or Lost o l Hues goes oes the tho to Join 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