Samuel, Horace B
Entry updated 31 March 2025. Tagged: Author.
(1883-1950) UK lawyer, translator and author, in active service during World War One, whose Modernities (coll 1913) contains vivid studies of contemporary literary figures; in his Scientific Romance The Quisto-Box (1925), the consequences of the Invention of the "Telepathoscope", a mind-reading Machine, are Satirically explored: unchecked powers of Telepathy break up families and make the covert politickings of the British government impossible; eventually a virtuous heroine outwits an avaricious femme fatale, and destroys the device. Normality returns. [JC]
Horace Barnett Samuel
born 1883
died 1950
works
- Modernities (London: Kegan Paul and Company, 1913) [coll: hb/]
- The Quisto-Box (London: A M Philpot, 1925) [hb/Tony Castle]
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