Boon, The Mind of the Race,The Wild Asses of the Devil,and The Last Trump

Being a First Selection from theLiterary Remains of George Boon,Appropriate to the Times

Prepared for Publication by
REGINALD BLISS
AUTHOR OF “THE COUSINS OF CHARLOTTE BRONTE,”“A CHILD’S HISTORY OF THE CRYSTAL PALACE,”“FIRELIGHT RAMBLES,” “EDIBLE FUNGI,”“WHALES IN CAPTIVITY,” AND OTHER WORKS

WITH
An Ambiguous Introduction by
H. G. WELLS

T. FISHER UNWIN, LTD.
LONDON; ADELPHI TERRACE

First published in 1915

(All rights reserved)

INTRODUCTION

Whenever a publisher gets a book by one author he wants an Introductionwritten to it by another, and Mr. Fisher Unwin is no exception to therule. Nobody reads Introductions, they serve no useful purpose, andthey give no pleasure, but they appeal to the business mind, I think,because as a rule they cost nothing. At any rate, by the pressure of acertain inseparable intimacy between Mr. Reginald Bliss and myself,this Introduction has been extracted from me. I will confess that Ihave not read his book through, though I have a kind of first-handknowledge of its contents, and that it seems to me an indiscreet,ill-advised book….

I have a very strong suspicion that this Introduction idea is designedto entangle me in the responsibility for the book. In America, at anyrate, “The Life of George Meek, Bath Chairman,” was ascribed to me upon no better evidence. Yet any one who likes may go to Eastbourneand find Meek with chair and all complete. But in view of thecomplications of the book market and the large simplicities of thepublic mind, I do hope that the reader—and by that I mean thereviewer—will be able to see the reasonableness and the necessity ofdistinguishing between me and Mr. Reginald Bliss. I do not wish toescape the penalties of thus participating in, and endorsing, hismanifest breaches of good taste, literary decorum, and friendlyobligation, but as a writer whose reputation is already too crowdedand confused and who is for the ordinary purposes of every day knownmainly as a novelist, I should be glad if I could escape the publicidentification I am now repudiating. Bliss is Bliss and Wells isWells. And Bliss can write all sorts of things that Wells could notdo.

This Introduction has really no more to say than that.

H. G. WELLS.

CONTENTS

1. INTRODUCTION 5
2. CHAPTER THE FIRST
   THE BACK OF MISS BATHWICK AND GEORGE BOON9
3. CHAPTER THE SECOND
   BEING THE FIRST CHAPTER OF “THE MIND OF THE RACE”43
4. CHAPTER THE THIRD
   THE GREAT SLUMP, THE REVIVAL OF LETTER
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