SOURCE: Barry, Iris. “A Tomorrow Grown out of Today's Fears.” New York Herald Tribune Books (7 May 1933): 6.

In the following review, Barry considers Full Circle to be a provocative book.

This is no novel about the future, in the ordinary sense of that phrase. It is not compounded of Wellsian characters or situations, but of men like our neighbors, like Francis Bacon or General Marbot, in situations such as men have faced before. Suppose all is lost, since the economic pundits tell us all may so easily be lost, and civilization as we know it shattered to chaos, to the dark ages and worse again, to beyond the bronze age if you will—what then? Annihilate cities, tear down communication, destroy all material amenities: then let us look at these people of Mr. Collier's, a group of men and women roughly dressed in skins, furnished with a little metal...