The Eagles Gather

THE second volume of a prolonged vituperation against a family of Franco-American munition makers, named Bouchard. These citizens display varied, individual facets of villainy, but they are all vile. There is one exception, a milk-white hero with blue eyes, one lung, and a grade-A morality. Everyone hates him — and with some reason. In fact, all the Bouchards hate one another and spend their lives betraying and undermining one another. They also hate their wives and children and all their in-laws. The only things they really love are money, power, and the sport of mass murder. They own banks and newspapers; they corrupt governments and statesmen, and they labor assiduously to destroy mankind.

To these grotesque dramatis personœ the authoress supplies a setting apparently documented on newspaper headlines. Her softest whisper is a shout, and she shouts and howls indomitably through 498 pages. Such piling on of reiterative invective is bound to make the civilized reader smile, but there will be plenty of patrons ready and willing to accept these exaggerations as gospel.