Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 453-460).

The Altrurian Romances (1968) of William Dean Howells consists of three utopias. A traveller from Altruria (1894), "The Letters of an Altrurian Traveller (1893-94), and Through the Eye of the Needle (1907). The Altrurian traveller, Aristed Homos, visits the United States in 1892 and stays there for about a year and a half, visiting a New Hampshire mountain resort hotel, New York City and Chicago. These romances record Homos's criticism of the social, political, and economic conditions of the industrial, capitalistic and 'plutocratic' America. The Commonwealth of Altruria has attained the Utopian dream of brotherly equality through literael application of the principles of 'liberty, equality, and fraternity.' Howells uses Homos as his spokeman in such a way that Homos's account of his country implies every insulting criticism of America. By letting the Altrurian Homos and his American wife describe the conditions of Altruria where complete social, political, and economic equality has been attained, Homos effectively draws the people's attention to his call for social justice through return to the ideals of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Especially through the strict observance of the principes of 'liberty, equality, and fraternity.' -- University of Ryukyus Repository.

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