MR. BELLOC OBJECTS
TO “THE OUTLINE OF HISTORY”
[Illustration: Hilaire Belloc]
MR. BELLOC OBJECTS
TO “THE OUTLINE OF HISTORY”
BY
H. G. WELLS
_With Portraits_
NEW [Illustration] YORK
GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1926,
BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
[Illustration]
MR. BELLOC OBJECTS TO “THE OUTLINE OF HISTORY”
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PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
FOREWORD
In the autumn of 1925 and the spring and summer of 1926 there was
published a revised and illustrated version of the _Outline of
History_, by Mr. H. G. Wells. There followed a series of articles by
Mr. Belloc attacking this _Outline_ and Mr. Wells. These articles were
published in the Catholic _Universe_, in the _Southern Cross_ of Cape
Colony, in the American _Catholic Bulletin_, and possibly elsewhere.
Every fortnight, keeping pace with the issue of the _Outline_, these
attacks appeared; in all, twenty-four voluminous articles. They were
grossly personal and provocative in tone, and no doubt a great joy
and comfort to the faithful. Mr. Wells prepared a series of articles
in reply; and as no one outside the public of these Catholic journals
seemed to have heard of Mr. Belloc’s attacks, he offered them to the
editors concerned, proposing, if necessary, to give the use of this
interesting matter to them without payment. Six articles he asked to
have published--in reply to twenty-four. This offering was declined
very earnestly by these editors. To the editor of the Catholic
_Universe_ Mr. Wells protested in the terms of the following letter:--