The New York herald., 1921-05-15
Paris reads prophetic fantasy
of Americas labor war in 1890

once naQ 1elI the very HldIIOW iiONc
mysteriously inside their bones. After
ward he had left the company sud-
denly without his brothers knowledge.
And she had borne her unhappiness in
secret. They met two years later in
New York. : They loved and
swore to belong to each other always"
Pietro told Eva all his hopes of a
social revolution. She did not share
them. but she realized the nobility Of
his aims And they We're two mag
nificent lovers They were endlessly
proud of that"
| Eva learned by chance that her
father knew of Pietro's presence in
the factory. She went by airplane to
warn her lover. We have a lively
picture of her mounting her plane,
which clears the platform, hurls it
self into space, plunges, rights itself
and rises
sAs for the talk of the lovers when
they meet the author remarks dryly:
What they said to each other is
not made to be put in a book. Those
who read these pages will remember
perhaps their own talk, il they once
loved. And those who never loved,
having nothing to recall. it is useless
to tell them-they would not believe
it!"
Too many accidents began to hap
pen in the works, the result of an
organized sabotage. Then the revo-
lutionary committee made it's demands
upon Mae Head Vohr. He refused. \
strike was called. But presently the
astounded workmen realized that the
factory was running without them
1t was the triumph of the machine
hands," controlling automatically the
machines and replacing the worlSmen.
Andrea Eerrati had evolved this pro-
digious idea for Mac Head Vohr. No
more workmen, no more strikes! The
machine at last was self sufficient.
Since the laborers had declared war,
so much the worse for them
The employees refused to accept the
situation. They marched on the
works to smash the new hands"
Their first columns were turned with
machine guns. But against those who
finally held out the Governor decided
to use the most internal invention of
all, which enabled him to disinte-
CRATE, to turn to smoke, all living mat
ter within a radius of miles.
| AT the crisis Eva joins her lover at
the head of the last resisting column.
| When they force the doors of the
workshop she goes to a telephone and
calls her father. He had heard of her
presence with Pietro and refused to
believe it. He could not doubt her
voice. At the sound pictures Of the
past flashed through his mind:
"A baby driven by her nurse in a
goat carriage that seemed to have
escaped from one of Perrault's fairy
tales.
"A little girl running through a
San Diego park with the golden har-
vest of her unbound hair.
| Boston, the university 1T Cam
bridge. The Stewart prize given to the
young woman whose thesis on the
ancient peoples of the Orient should
gain the majority vote. . Miss
Mac Head Vohr. Music.
And then the High Palace, the ter
race. o! the sound, actual, vibrating.
of heart too full of love, of the tor
tured heart of a father. 1t is
the contest between his paternal love
and that which he believes to be the
truth
Four hundred thousand TO kill.
possibly; fbur hundred millions Of
others to save from hunger-that is
| certain And he gives the order. He
has given ii. o. o! in what a
horrible voice. pitiable. sobbng, He
has given the order nevertheless.
'Torral, go ahead In second there
IS massacre and nothing
remains of the great host OF those who
lived, suffered, loved"
The book has stirred up a good deal
of controversy. Critics object that no
state would permit the erection of a
single source upon which the bread of
millions would depend and which
would be under the hands of one man.
But such as it is this romance by
Claude Farrere makes one think and
dream. And it is a long way to the
end of the twentieth century! At any
rate the author has demonstrated pos
session of distinguished talent, dra-
matte and irresistible. / read the book
first for myself headlong. and a sec
ond time more carefully for my friend