@booklet {7785, title = {The Crystal Button or, Adventures of Paul Prognosis in the Forty-Ninth Century}, year = {1891}, note = {

Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1975 with an \"Introduction by Ormond Seavey\" (v-xiii).

}, month = {1891}, pages = {302 pp}, publisher = {Houghton, Mifflin}, address = {Boston, MA}, abstract = {

Eutopia based on scientific advances and a eugenic policy that eliminated the unfit. Focus on mechanical and material developments. By the time of the novel, there is little change and custom is the rule in most things. The crystal button of the title is a symbol that the followers of the man who started the process of reform wear, and there is an emphasis on how the eutopia was achieved. In Houghton\’s \“Editor\’s Preface\”, he says that it was written between 1872 and 1878 and published as the result of the popularity of Bellamy\’s\ Looking Backward\ (viii).\ 

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Chauncey Thomas (1822-98)}, editor = {George Houghton} }