SOURCE: Cournos, John. “An Old, Old Story.” The Nation 136, no. 3547 (28 June 1933): 732-33.

In the following review, Cournos regrets that Collier has wasted his talents writing Full Circle.

It will be remembered that in the last two pages of Penguin Island Anatole France furnishes us with a sketchy picture of the day when civilization will have run its course, and men, “barbarians” once more, will have begun to build a new civilization not so different from the old. John Collier takes up the theme in this his second novel and elaborates it in nearly three hundred pages. Only it is not France but England which is the author's focal point—England in 1995, a generation or two after it has been devastated by terrific wars and left a vast ruin inhabited by mutually hostile tribes indulging in atavistic adventures.

In a brief introduction [to Full Circle] Mr. Collier asserts that...