Looking Further Forward; An Answer to Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy

1890 Michaelis, Richard. Looking Further Forward; An Answer to Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy. Chicago, IL: Rand McNally. At head of the title This Work Is A Reply To Bellamy’s “Looking Backward.” Rpt. Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. Also published as Looking Forward. Chicago, IL: Rand McNally, 1890; and A Sequel to Looking Backward or “Looking Further Forward.” London: William Reeves, [1891], which does not include Chapter VIII. An Australian ed. was published as A Social Tangle. Being a Sequel and Reply to Bellamy’s “Looking Backward”. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: E.W. Cole, [1891]. In German as Ein Blick in die zukunft, Ein Antewort auf Ein Ruckblick von Edward Bellamy. Chicago, IL: Rand McNally, 1890. ATL, DLC, MoU-St, NN, PSt, W3,3717

Anti-1888 Bellamy. The author shows Julian West starting his teaching job and being confronted by the Professor he replaced, who is now a janitor because he did not follow the party line. The “real” future Boston is corrupt, class-ridden, and authoritarian. The final chapter, dropped in some reprints, depicts the murder of West, the professor and Dr. Leete and the abduction of Edith Leete, who had refused to marry the leader of the radical opposition. But in this version it had all been a dream, and West wakes up in nineteenth century Boston. The author was Editor of Chicago Freie Press. 1891 Geissler is a response.