Monday, June 28, 2010

Alien

The large, careless promiscuity of the Anglo-Saxon peoples is absolutely * to the modern French mind.
— H. G. Wells, Brynhild, or The show of things. (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, p. 288).

Maori

In New Zealand, as Mrs. Ettie Hornibrook showed so ably and interestingly in her * Symbolism, the decorations on a beam or a pillar may be expanded by an understanding imagination into the most complete and interesting of patterns, and so it is with this book. It is a novel in the * style, a presentation of imaginative indications.
— H. G. Wells, Brynhild, or The show of things. (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, p. 302).