End of Race

End of the Race

RED SNOW--F. Wright Moxley--Simon & Schuster ($1). This novel undertakes to finish off the human race and does so in 400 overcrowded pages. The cause of the end is mysterious. On Aug. 17, 1935, occurred a short fall of red, snow-like flakes, penetrating buildings and clothing. No consequences were noticed for nine months. Then: "The news at first fuliginous in its incomprehensibleness soon became fulgent in its clarity." The "red snow" had sterilized humanity. With all the restraints of care for posterity at once removed, civilization began to disintegrate. Racial hatreds flamed and religious wars burst out. Fanatics seized governments. The U. S. sent a crusading army of ten million into central Asia. Economic systems faltered. Workmen abandoned their labors. Women became untamed sexual aggressors. Problems that would occupy 20 volumes are dismissed in sentences. Nations perish in a paragraph, continents in a chapter. Each phase of the debacle is outlined with unflagging vigor and a wild flow of words. Finally Phaeton Andrews, last man to survive, after a voyage from rotting New York to savage England, ages slowly to his death in 2027, his mind a strange confusion of scraps of philosophy, politics, sociology, psychology, erotica, all the arts and sciences, in consonance with the 34 chapters which precede.

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