Part 5
“As might be expected from an inventor who is always so fresh, he has many interesting things to say.”—_Evening Standard._ “The mantle of Blake has fallen upon the physicists. To them we look for visions, and we find them in this book.”—_New Statesman._
=Perseus=: of Dragons. By H. F. SCOTT STOKES. With 2 illustrations.
“A diverting little book, chock-full of ideas, Mr Stokes’ dragon-lore is both quaint and various.”—_Morning Post._ “Very amusingly written, and a mine of curious knowledge for which the discerning reader will find many uses.”—_Glasgow Herald._
=Lycurgus=, or the Future of Law. By E. S. P. HAYNES, author of “Concerning Solicitors,” etc.
“An interesting and concisely written book.”—_Yorkshire Post._ “He roundly declares that English criminal law is a blend of barbaric violence, medieval prejudices and modern fallacies.... A humane and conscientious investigation.”—_T.P.’s Weekly._ “A thoughtful book—deserves careful reading.”—_Law Times._
=Euterpe=, or the Future of Art. By LIONEL R. MCCOLVIN, author of “The Theory of Book-Selection.”
“Discusses briefly, but very suggestively, the problem of the future of art in relation to the public.”—_Saturday Review._ “Another indictment of machinery as a soul-destroyer ... Mr McColvin has the courage to suggest solutions.”—_Westminster Gazette._ “This is altogether a much-needed book.”—_New Leader._
=Pegasus=, or Problems of Transport. By Colonel J. F. C. FULLER, author of “The Reformation of War,” etc. With 8 Plates.
“The foremost military prophet of the day propounds a solution for industrial and unemployment problems. It is a bold essay ... and calls for the attention of all concerned with imperial problems.”—_Daily Telegraph._ “Practical, timely, very interesting and very important.”—_J. St Loe Strachey_, in _Spectator_.
=Atlantis=, or America and the Future. By Colonel J. F. C. FULLER.
“Candid and caustic.”—_Observer._ “Many hard things have been said about America, but few quite so bitter and caustic as these.”—_Daily Sketch._ “He can conjure up possibilities of a new Atlantis.”—_Clarion._
=Midas=, or the United States and the Future. By C. H. BRETHERTON, author of “The Real Ireland,” etc.
A companion volume to _Atlantis_. “Full of astute observations and acute reflections ... this wise and witty pamphlet, a provocation to the thought that is creative.”—_Morning Post._ “A punch in every paragraph. One could hardly ask for more ‘meat.’”—_Spectator._
=Nuntius=, or Advertising and its Future. By GILBERT RUSSELL.
“Expresses the philosophy of advertising concisely and well.”—_Observer._ “It is doubtful if a more straightforward exposition of the part advertising plays in our public and private life has been written.”—_Manchester Guardian._
=Birth Control and the State=: a Plea and a Forecast. By C. P. BLACKER, M.C., M.A., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.
“A very careful summary.”—_Times Literary Supplement._ “A temperate and scholarly survey of the arguments for and against the encouragement of the practice of birth control.”—_Lancet._ “He writes lucidly, moderately, and from wide knowledge; his book undoubtedly gives a better understanding of the subject than any other brief account we know. It also suggests a policy.”—_Saturday Review._
=Ouroboros=, or the Mechanical Extension of Mankind. By GARET GARRETT.
“This brilliant and provoking little book.”—_Observer._ “A significant and thoughtful essay, calculated in parts to make our flesh creep.”—_Spectator._ “A brilliant writer, Mr Garrett is a remarkable man. He explains something of the enormous change the machine has made in life.”—_Daily Express._
=Artifex=, or the Future of Craftsmanship. By JOHN GLOAG, author of “Time, Taste, and Furniture.”
“An able and interesting summary of the history of craftsmanship in the past, a direct criticism of the present, and at the end his hopes for the future. Mr Gloag’s real contribution to the future of craftsmanship is his discussion of the uses of machinery.”—_Times Literary Supplement._
=Plato’s American Republic.= By J. DOUGLAS WOODRUFF. _Fourth impression._
“Uses the form of the Socratic dialogue with devastating success. A gently malicious wit sparkles in every page.”—_Sunday Times._ “Having deliberately set himself an almost impossible task, has succeeded beyond belief.”—_Saturday Review._ “Quite the liveliest even of this spirited series.”—_Observer._
=Orpheus=, or the Music of the Future. By W. J. TURNER, author of “Music and Life.” _Second impression._
“A book on music that we can read not merely once, but twice or thrice. Mr Turner has given us some of the finest thinking upon Beethoven that I have ever met with.”—_Ernest Newman_ in _Sunday Times_. “A brilliant essay in contemporary philosophy.”—_Outlook._ “The fruit of real knowledge and understanding.”—_New Statesman._
=Terpander=, or Music and the Future. By E. J. DENT, author of “Mozart’s Operas.”
“In _Orpheus_ Mr Turner made a brilliant voyage in search of first principles. Mr Dent’s book is a skilful review of the development of music. It is the most succinct and stimulating essay on music I have found....”—_Musical News._ “Remarkably able and stimulating.”—_Times Literary Supplement._ “There is hardly another critic alive who could sum up contemporary tendencies so neatly.”—_Spectator._
=Sibylla=, or the Revival of Prophecy. By C. A. MACE, University of St. Andrew’s.
“An entertaining and instructive pamphlet.”—_Morning Post._ “Places a nightmare before us very ably and wittily.”—_Spectator._ “Passages in it are excellent satire, but on the whole Mr Mace’s speculations may be taken as a trustworthy guide ... to modern scientific thought.”—_Birmingham Post._
=Lucullus=, or the Food of the Future. By OLGA HARTLEY and MRS C. F. LEYEL, authors of “The Gentle Art of Cookery.”
“This is a clever and witty little volume in an entertaining series, and it makes enchanting reading.”—_Times Literary Supplement._ “Opens with a brilliant picture of modern man, living in a vacuum-cleaned, steam-heated, credit-furnished suburban mansion ‘with a wolf in the basement’—the wolf of hunger. This banquet of epigrams.”—_Spectator._
=Procrustes=, or the Future of English Education. By M. ALDERTON PINK.
“Undoubtedly he makes out a very good case.”—_Daily Herald._ “This interesting addition to the series.”—_Times Educational Supplement._ “Intends to be challenging and succeeds in being so. All fit readers will find it stimulating.”—_Northern Echo._
=The Future of Futurism.= By JOHN RODKER.
“Mr Rodker is up-to-the-minute, and he has accomplished a considerable feat in writing on such a vague subject, 92 extremely interesting pages.”—_T. S. Eliot_, in _Nation_. “There are a good many things in this book which are of interest.”—_Times Literary Supplement._
=Pomona=, or the Future of English. By BASIL DE SÉLINCOURT, author of “The English Secret”, etc.
“The future of English is discussed fully and with fascinating interest.”—_Morning Post._ “Full of wise thoughts and happy words.”—_Times Literary Supplement._ “His later pages must stir the blood of any man who loves his country and her poetry.”—_J. C. Squire_, in _Observer_. “His finely-conceived essay.”—_Manchester Guardian._
=Balbus=, or the Future of Architecture. By CHRISTIAN BARMAN.
“A really brilliant addition to this already distinguished series. The reading of _Balbus_ will give much data for intelligent prophecy, and incidentally, an hour or so of excellent entertainment.”—_Spectator._ “Most readable and reasonable. We can recommend it warmly.”—_New Statesman._ “This intriguing little book.”—_Connoisseur._
=Apella=, or the Future of the Jews. By A QUARTERLY REVIEWER.
“Cogent, because of brevity and a magnificent prose style, this book wins our quiet praise. It is a fine pamphlet, adding to the value of the series, and should not be missed.”—_Spectator._ “A notable addition to this excellent series. His arguments are a provocation to fruitful thinking.”—_Morning Post._
=The Dance of Çiva=, or Life’s Unity and Rhythm. By COLLUM.
“It has substance and thought in it. The author is very much alive and responsive to the movements of to-day.”—_Spectator._ “A very interesting account of the work of Sir Jagadis Bose.”—_Oxford Magazine._ “Has caught the spirit of the Eastern conception of world movements.”—_Calcutta Statesman._
=Lars Porsena=, or the Future of Swearing and Improper Language. By ROBERT GRAVES. _Third impression._
“Goes uncommonly well, and deserves to.”—_Observer._ “Not for squeamish readers.”—_Spectator._ “No more amusingly unexpected contribution has been made to this series. A deliciously ironical affair.”—_Bystander._ “His highly entertaining essay is as full as the current standard of printers and police will allow.”—_New Statesman._ “Humour and style are beyond criticism.”—_Irish Statesman._
=Socrates=, or the Emancipation of Mankind. By H. F. CARLILL.
“Devotes a specially lively section to the herd instinct.”—_Times._ “Clearly, and with a balance that is almost Aristotelian, he reveals what modern psychology is going to accomplish.”—_New Statesman._ “One of the most brilliant and important of a remarkable series.”—_Westminster Gazette._
=Delphos=, or the Future of International Language. By E. SYLVIA PANKHURST.
“Equal to anything yet produced in this brilliant series. Miss Pankhurst states very clearly what all thinking people must soon come to believe, that an international language would be one of the greatest assets of civilization.”—_Spectator._ “A most readable book, full of enthusiasm, an important contribution to this subject.”—_International Language._
=Gallio=, or the Tyranny of Science. By J. W. N. SULLIVAN, author of “A History of Mathematics.”
“So packed with ideas that it is not possible to give any adequate _résumé_ of its contents.”—_Times Literary Supplement._ “His remarkable monograph, his devastating summary of materialism, this pocket _Novum Organum_.”—_Spectator._ “Possesses a real distinction of thought and manner. It must be read.”—_New Statesman._
=Apollonius=, or the Future of Psychical Research. By E. N. BENNETT, author of “Problems of Village Life,” etc.
“A sane, temperate and suggestive survey of a field of inquiry which is slowly but surely pushing to the front.”—_Times Literary Supplement._ “His exposition of the case for psychic research is lucid and interesting.”—_Scotsman._ “Displays the right temper, admirably conceived, skilfully executed.”—_Liverpool Post._
=Aeolus=, or the Future of the Flying Machine. By OLIVER STEWART.
“Both his wit and his expertness save him from the nonsensical-fantastic. There is nothing vague or sloppy in these imaginative forecasts.”—_Daily News._ “He is to be congratulated. His book is small, but it is so delightfully funny that it is well worth the price, and there really are sensible ideas behind the jesting.”—_Aeroplane._
=Stentor=, or the Press of To-Day and To-Morrow. By DAVID OCKHAM.
“A valuable and exceedingly interesting commentary on a vital phase of modern development.”—_Daily Herald._ “Vigorous and well-written, eminently readable.”—_Yorkshire Post._ “He has said what one expects any sensible person to say about the ‘trustification’ of the Press.”—_Spectator._
=Rusticus=, or the Future of the Countryside. By MARTIN S. BRIGGS, F.R.I.B.A.
“Few of the 50 volumes, provocative and brilliant as most of them have been, capture our imagination as does this one.”—_Daily Telegraph._ “The historical part is as brilliant a piece of packed writing as could be desired.”—_Daily Herald._ “Serves a national end. The book is in essence a pamphlet, though it has the form and charm of a book.”—_Spectator._
=Janus=, or the Conquest of War. By WILLIAM MCDOUGALL, M.B., F.R.S.
“Among all the booklets of this brilliant series, none, I think is so weighty and impressive as this. It contains thrice as much matter as the other volumes and is profoundly serious.”—_Dean Inge_, in _Evening Standard_. “A deeply interesting and fair-minded study of the causes of war and the possibilities of their prevention. Every word is sound.”—_Spectator._
=Vulcan=, or the Future of Labour. By CECIL CHISHOLM.
“Of absorbing interest.”—_Daily Herald._ “No one, perhaps, has ever condensed so many hard facts into the appearance of agreeable fiction, nor held the balance so nicely between technicalities and flights of fancy, as the author of this excellent book in a brilliant series. _Vulcan_ is a little book, but between its covers knowledge and vision are pressed down and brimming over.”—_Spectator._
=Hymen=, or the Future of Marriage. By NORMAN HAIRE.
This candid and unprejudiced survey inquires why the majority of marriages to-day seem to be so unsatisfactory, and finds the answer in the sexual ethic of our civilization which is ill adapted to our social and economic needs. The problems of sex-morality, sex-education, prostitution, in-breeding, birth-control, trial-marriage, and polygamy are all touched upon.
=The Next Chapter=: the War against the Moon. By ANDRÉ MAUROIS, author of ‘Ariel’, etc.
This imaginary chapter of world-history (1951–64) from the pen of one of the most brilliant living French authors mixes satire and fancy in just proportions. It tells how the press of the world is controlled by five men, how world interest is focussed on an attack on the moon, how thus the threat of world-war is averted. But when the moon retaliates....
=Galatea=, or the Future of Darwinism. By W. RUSSELL BRAIN.
This non-technical but closely-reasoned book is a challenge to the orthodox teaching on evolution known as Neo-Darwinism. The author claims that, although Neo-Darwinian theories can possibly account for the evolution of forms, they are quite inadequate to explain the evolution of functions.
=Scheherazade=, or the Future of the English Novel. By JOHN CARRUTHERS.
A survey of contemporary fiction in England and America lends to the conclusion that the literary and scientific influences of the last fifty years have combined to make the novel of to-day predominantly analytic. It has thus gained in psychological subtlety, but lost its form. How this may be regained is put forward in the conclusion.
=Caledonia=, or the Future of the Scots. By G. M. THOMSON.
Exit the Scot! Under this heading the Scottish people are revealed as a leaderless mob in whom national pride has been strangled. They regard, unmoved, the spectacle of their monstrous slum-evil, the decay of their industries, the devastation of their countryside. This is the most compact and mordant indictment of Scottish policy that has yet been written.
=Albyn=, or Scotland and the Future. By C. M. GRIEVE, author of ‘Contemporary Scottish Studies’, etc.
A vigorous answer, explicit and implicit, to _Caledonia_, tracing the movements of a real Scottish revival, in music, art, literature, and politics, and coming to the conclusion that there is a chance even now for the regeneration of the Scottish people.
=Lares et Penates=, or the Future of the Home. By H. J. BIRNSTINGL.
All the many forces at work to-day are influencing the planning, appearance, and equipment of the home. This is the main thesis of this stimulating volume, which considers also the labour-saving movement, the ‘ideal’ house, the influence of women, the servant problem, and the relegation of aesthetic considerations to the background. Disconcerting prognostications follow.
_NEARLY READY_
=Archon=, or the Future of Government. By HAMILTON FYFE.
A survey of the methods of government in the past leads the author to a consideration of conditions in the world of to-day. He then indicates the lines along which progress may develop.
=Hermes=, or the Future of Chemistry. By T. W. JONES, B.SC., F.C.S.
Chemistry as the means of human emancipation is the subject of this book. To-day chemistry is one of the master factors of our existence; to-morrow it will dominate every phase of life, winning for man the goal of all his endeavour, economic freedom. It may also effect a startling change in man himself.
=The Future of Physics.= By L. L. WHYTE.
The last few years have been a critical period in the development of physics. We stand on the eve of a new epoch. Physics, biology, and psychology are converging towards a scientific synthesis of unprecedented importance whose influence on thought and social custom will be so profound as to mark a stage in human evolution. This book interprets these events and should be read in connexion with _Gallio_, by J. W. N. Sullivan, in this series.
=Ikonoclastes=, or the Future of Shakespeare. By HUBERT GRIFFITHS.
Taking as text the recent productions of classical plays in modern dress, the author, a distinguished dramatic critic, suggests that this is the proper way of reviving Shakespeare and other great dramatists of the past, and that their successful revival in modern dress may perhaps be taken as an indication of their value.
_IN PREPARATION_
=Bacchus=, or the Future of Wine. By P. MORTON SHAND.
=Mercurius=, or the World on Wings. By C. THOMPSON WALKER.
=The Future of Sport.= By G. S. SANDILANDS.
=The Future of India.= By T. EARLE WELBY.
=The Future of Films.= By ERNEST BETTS.
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Transcriber’s Note (continued)
Errors in punctuation and simple typos have been corrected without note. Archaic or variant spelling, inconsistent hyphenation, etc., has been left as it appears in the original publication unless as noted in the following:
Page 12 – “insistance” changed to “insistence” (The continued insistence that speed)
Page 35 – “persistance” changed to “persistence” (foretold with tiresome persistence)
End matter page 17 – “montrous” changed to “monstrous” (their monstrous slum-evil)