WCP2491

Letter (WCP2491.2381)

[1]1

The Review of Reviews

Edited by W.T. STEAD.

Bank Buildings,

Kingsway,

London, W.C.

Jan[uary] 12 1911

Dear Dr Wallace

I enclose you herewith the Review of Reviews2 for January with a review of your admirable book3. I had a long talk with John Morely4 about it last night. He said he would buy it at once & read it with the greatest interest. He thought your remarks about Haekel's5 Hell extraordinarily well phrased, & he was much interested in what I told him about your chapter Is Pain cruel?6 I am afraid that he is hopeless as to spiritualism but otherwise he has a mind, open and eager.

Bye the bye, would it be asking you too great a favour to send me a few words of your opinion of the 21 years work of the Review of Reviews? You will find my retrospect In the opening pages. I should like to publish a collection of letters from old prev[i]o[u]s readers & subscribers in the February number.

With best wishes for the New Year | I am Yours sincerely | W T. Stead. [signature]

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Page numbered 180 in pencil in top RH corner and "Ans[were]d." in pencil in top LH corner. "W.T. Stead" written in pencil at the top centre of page. The pictorial letter heading of The Review of Reviews, appears on top LHS opposite to the address on the RHS.
2
A family of monthly journals founded in 1890-1893 by British reform journalist William Thomas Stead.
3
The World of Life: A Manifestation of Creative Power, Directive Mind and Ultimate Purpose. Chapman & Hall, London, December 1910.
4
Morley, John. 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn (1838 — 1923). Liberal statesman, writer and editor of the Fortnightly Review.
5
Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August (1834-1919). German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor and artist. Coined the phrase "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" and was the foremost European exponent of Darwinism at the time.
6
Chapter XIX Is Nature Cruel? The Purpose and Limitations of Pain.

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Transcribed by O'Dell, Sandra [2015-03-04] Transcription checked by Benny, Ruth [2015-03-04] Transcription checked by Sherwood, Danni [2020-08-10]

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