WHEN the commencement of Mr. Buckle's great “Introduction” appeared, some fourteen years ago, no small controversy arose as to the possibility of constructing a Science of History. On the one hand it ...

For old shamans in northeast China, drums made from the skin of large fish are not just musical instruments. As researcher Liu Guiteng finds out, drums, or wente as they are known among the locals, ...

[The following piece, though never previously attributed to Wells, is identifiable as his on grounds of style and content. Under the same heading as above, it appeared in the Saturday Review, 79 (June ...