This is volume 1 of the J. D. Beresford Collection. John Davys Beresford was an English writer, now remembered for his early science fiction. A great admirer of H.G. Wells, he wrote the first critical study of Wells in 1915. His Wellsian novel The Hampdenshire Wonder, included in this collection, was a major influence on Olaf Stapledon. This novel is a biographical account of a freak superchild born out of his time exploits the Evolution of the Superman in a fashion Wells himself never adumbrated. Beresford's second sy fy, novel, Goslings (1913; vt A World of Women 1913), is the first attempt to depict an all-female society which treats the issue seriously and with a degree of sympathy. Another novel in this collection, Revolution: A Story of the Near Future in England 1921) is a determinedly objective analysis of a Near Future socialist revolution in the UK. It generated a lot of controversy in England at the time, since it was published only four years after the Russian revolution. FInally, the Jervaise comedy, is a romantic comedy involving a young dramatist who finds himself participating in a planned, half-executed elopement, and who falls in love with the sister of the male-eloper.