I enjoyed reading Certain Personal Matters so much at DP that I wanted to be sure to tell you about it when it posted to Project Gutenberg.
It’s a group of about 40 essays written by H. G. Wells for the Pall Mall Gazette at the end of the 19th century. In it you’ll find some hints of his novels of speculative fiction (”Of a Book Unwritten” and “The Extinction of Man”), hints of other peoples’ novels of speculative fiction (”From an Observatory”), and many (often humorous) observations on how life was lived and books were written in the 1890’s.
Some things haven’t much changed…