11 June 1895 The time traveller’s revelations are unlikely to excite regret on the part of his readers at having been born 802,000 years too soon
The influence of the author of The Coming Race is still powerful, and no year passes without the appearance of stories which describe the manners and customs of peoples in imaginary worlds, sometimes in the stars above, sometimes in the heart of unknown continents in Australia or at the Pole, and sometimes below the waters under the earth. The latest effort in this class of fiction is The Time Machine, by HG Wells (W Heinemann, pp 152, 1s 6d). By means of a marvellous piece of mechanism the inventor could either travel back through time or travel forward for thousands of years.
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