What is the World coming to ? By W. Graham
Moffat and John White. (Elliot Stock.)—This is described, on the title-page, as " a novel of the twenty-first century, founded on the fads, facts, and fiction of the nineteenth." One result at least must be held to be achieved by books of this kind,—to reconcile the reader to the age in which he lives. He will feel that things might be, and probably will be, much worse. Telegrams from all quarters of the world are distracting enough, but what when they come in from the planets ? Social intercourse is sufficiently complicated, but what when every one can move about with a " thought-body " ? There is cleverness in this book, and the application of a consider- able amount of knowledge, and a certain imaginative ingenuity, but it does not wholly avoid tediousness.
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