Caesar's Column: A Story of the Future

Review\nSOME WEIGHTY OPINIONS.\n"The 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' of the New Revolution."—WATSON'S MAGAZINE, Book Dept. New York City.\n"It will thrill a careless reader of novels or profoundly impress a statesman. It is gentle as a child and yet it is rugged as a giant."—OPIE READE.\n"That our people in this country need arousing is unquestionably true, and you have brought forward a Gabriel's trump of a very different sort from the one concerning which I have been wont to think."—FRANCES E. WILLARD.\n"I find in it evidence of great literary ability, abounding, as it does, in great wealth of imagery and vividness of detail. * * * As an example of high literary form, the book deserves unstinted praise."—CARDINAL GIBBONS.\n"'Caesar's Column,' in its vivid portrayal, will lead many to realize better the many dangers to winch our country is liable."—HON. WM. LARRABEE.\n"Certainly a very extraordinary production."—REV. BISHOP H. C. POTTER.\n"I was unable to lay it down until I had finished reading it. It should be read by every farmer in the land."—H. L. LOUCKS, President National Farmers' Alliance.\n"Bellamy looks backward upon what is impossible as well as improbable. 'Caesar's Column' looks forward to what is not only possible, but probable."—MILTON GEORGE, Founder of the Farmers' Alliance.\n"I have read 'Caesar's Column' twice and am convinced that it has been written in the nick of time. * * * I predict for the book an immense sale and a worldwide discussion."—CORINNE S. BROWN, Secretary Nationalist Club, Chicago.\n"Peculiarly timely at the present time, and should have a wide reading among thinking people."—B. O. FLOWER.\n"From the time that I received a copy of 'Caesar's Column' until after two o'clock the next morning I read with the most intense interest to the end. Only once before in my life has a book in any degree affected me like this one. That was Charles Reade's 'Put Yourself in His Place.' 'Progress and Poverty,' Bebel's 'Woman,' Gronlund's 'Commonwealth,' and even 'Looking Backward'—all have failed to arouse in me sufficient interest to receive a complete perusal. But 'Caesar's Column' will receive no such indifferent attention. To commence it is to finish it, and to finish it is in my case the creation of an impatient desire to read it again."—T. J. MORGAN.\n"The book points out tendencies which actually exist and are in need of cure. It warns us with vehemence and force of the necessity of guarding our liberties against the encroachments of monopoly and plutocracy, and of disarming corruption in government by every device that a vigilant ingenuity can supply."—GEORGE CARY EGGLESTON in New York World.\n"I began the book in the morning, and read it carefully to the end the same day. It is exceedingly interceding as s narrative and is written by a man of thought, learning and imagination. I consider 'Caesar's Column' the best work of its class—prophetic forecasts of the future of civilized society—that has appeared since Bulwer's 'Coming Race.' The difficulty of conveying without heaviness the author's views as to the elements and organization of a true society has been met with rare ability. The views themselves, in their general scope, are sound and wise, and such as those who have the welfare of humanity at heart would rejoice to see realized. There are, of course, almost as many plans of reform as there are reformers, but the present author's scheme is open to as few objections as any that I have seen advanced.\n"I was impressed with the power of the book—the vividness and strength with which the tragic incidents of the tale are described and developed. The plot is absorbing, and yet nothing in it seems forced; and the conception of the column is as original as its treatment is vigorous. There is no padding in the book; the events are you portrayed tersely and clearly. The analysis of the steps which lead society from the point at which it stands to-day, to that which it occupies a century hence, is reasonable and saga