Life of Life

THE SCIENCE OF LIFE--H. G. Wells, Julian S. Huxley, G. P. Wells--Doubleday, Doran ($10).

The firm of Wells, Huxley & Wells, taking heart from the success of the senior partner's Outline of History, have produced a comparable outline of Life itself --all the way from a study of the body as a machine to the experiments of spiritualism, the latest theories of consciousness. Says the senior partner of himself: "[He] is the least well equipped scientifically. His share has been mainly literary and editorial and he is responsible for the initiation and organization of the whole scheme. . . . The triplex author claims to be wedded to no creed, associated with no propaganda; he is telling what he believes to be the truth about life. so far as it is known now."

The two big volumes take up in broad detail: the body as a machine, biological classifications, evolution, history of life, behavior, feeling & thought, human biology. The Science of Life has 337 illustrations, 1,514 pages, 600,000 words, most of them readable. If you are interested in Life here is a good chance to do something about it.

The Authors. Herbert George Wells, onetime novelist, is the super-journalist of the World-Idea. Julian Sorell Huxley, brother to Aldous, is one of the foremost English biologists. George Philip Wells, son to Herbert George, is a sometime Scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge, researches biologically.

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