Author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946.

Title: Ausblicke auf die Folgen des technischen und wissenschaftlichen Fortschritts fur Leben und Denken des Menschen / H. G. Wells ; Deutsche vom Autor genehmigte Ubertragung von Felix Paul Greve. --

Published: Minden i. Westf. : J.C.C. Bruns' Verlag, [pref. 1905].

Description: 384 p. ; 20 cm. --

Contents:
Vorbemerkung / [signed "Mai 1905, F.P.G., pp.ix-xi]. -- Mechanische Fortbewegung im zwanzigsten Jahrhundert. -- Die wahrscheinliche Zerstreuung grosser Stadte. -- Sich entwickelnde soziale Elemente. -- Gewisse soziale Reaktionen. -- Die Lebensgeschichte der Demokratie. -- Der Krieg im 20. Jahrhundert. -- Der Sprachenkonflikt. -- Die weitere Synthese. -- Glaube, Moral und Staatspolitik der Neuen Republik.

Local Note: Translation of Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress Upon Human Life and Thought (1901), by Felix Paul Greve, later Frederick Philip Grove. --

Opposite t.p. advertisement of Wells' Die Riesen kommen, Die Zeitmaschine, Doktor Moreaus Insel, Die ersten Menschen im Mond, all four in Greve's translation & published in 1904 & 1905; announcent of Greve's final known Wells translation, which appeared in 1906, Wenn der Schlafer erwacht, as forthcoming. --

Greve sent the first three of his translations to Wells in late 1904, with a brief mss. dedication in Riesen. A year later, he sent an autographed copy of this title, Ausblicke/Anticipations, & he also autographed his final known translation, Wenn der Schläfer erwacht/When the Sleeper Wakes, in 1906. -- All six books are extant in the Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Wells Collection, & copies of the title pages can be found in the UM Archives FPG Collections. --

See the Cover & Title Page with Grove's December 1905 dedication of Ausblicke, as adapted from the Urbana copies.

Includes an article about Wells [probably by F.P.G. himself] in the Hamburger Fremdenblatt. --

Translation of Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress Upon Human Life and Thought (1901) by Felix Paul Greve, later Frederick Philip Grove. --

Opposite t.p. advertises Wells' Die Riesen kommen, Die Zeitmaschine, Doktor Moreaus Insel, Die ersten Menschen im Mond, all in Greve's translation, and announces Wenn der Schlafer erwacht. -- Includes an article about Wells [probably by F.P.G.] in the Hamburger Fremdenblatt (2 p.). --

The "Vorbemerkung" or preface by "F.P.G." on pp.ix-xi addresses the genesis of the text, which was written in 1900/1901, and explains that the chapter on language competition had been further developed in Wells' "Modern Utopia" in 1905. Greve hopes that these theoretical works will gain respect for the author who is more than a Jules Verne imitator, and who shows affinities with Swift's satires. --

Acquired from D. O. Spettigue, Summer, 1994. --
The pref. is signed "Mai 1905, F.P.G." --

Subjects: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946 Views on civilization.
Civilization, Modern.
Twentieth century.
Economic history 1918-1945.