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House & Garden 
H. G. Wells’ New Novel 
“The Soul 
of a Bishop” 
A new Wells novel! The words 
will carry a thrill to anyone 
who read last year’s sensational Collier 
serial “Mr. Britling Sees It Through.” 
As in “Mr. Britling” Wells showed the 
astounding effect of the Great War on 
the normal civilian life of England, 
so in “The Soul of a Bishop” he shows 
its effect on that bulwark of society, 
the Church. 
The Bishop, brought up in reverence 
for the forms of religion, is over¬ 
whelmed by the terrific questions that 
the war hurls upon him, questions 
which these forms cannot help him 
answer. 
Wells’ solution is revolutionary. Yet 
his book is deeply religious. And he 
puts his thesis to you, as in “Mr. 
Britling,” through a moving story of 
real human beings. 
“The Soul of a Bishop” will create 
intense discussion everywhere. No 
thinking person, in or out of the 
church, can afford to miss this dra¬ 
matic study of a man’s most elaborate 
institution flung up against the grim 
realities of a world-crisis. 
The publication of “The Soul of a 
Bishop” comes at an apt moment—the 
moment when America is just begin¬ 
ning to realize her own part in that 
crisis and envisage some of the ma¬ 
terial and spiritual transformations it 
may bring to her. 
This remarkable new novel by the 
foremost English imaginative writer 
of to-day— 
begins in the June Ninth Issue of 
THE NATIONAL WEEKLY 
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