Mr. H. G. Wells on " The Anatomy of Frustration
" As is indicated in a leading article on a later page, The Spectator has acquired, and will begin to publish in its issue of next week, a series of articles by Mr. H. G. Wells, which may be taken as expressing his considered philosophy of life. His conclusions, so far as he reaches them, differ in many respects from ours, but The Spectator has never taken, and is never likely to take, the view that only opinions congenial to itself should find hospitality in its columns. Mr. Wells is before all things a challenging thinker, and it may be predicted with assurance that the articles about to appear will perpetually provoke thought, regardless of whether they command assent. Mr. Wells, who has modelled his work as regards form on Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, explains in his first article, to be published next week, why he has set his thoughts in this particular framework, and depicts the character of Wil- liam Burroughs Steele, the imaginary author of the imagin- ary work, " The Anatomy of Frustration." Later articles deal with such subjects as " Frustration Through Confu- sions in Thought," " The Frustration of Youth," " The Frustration of Peace," " The Frustration of Abundance," and many other aspects of man's general failure to realise himself.
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