Author: GRAHAME, Stewart.
Title: Where Socialism Failed. An actual experiment.
Description: London, Murray 1913 [1912]. Octavo publisher's cloth; xii,266pp & publisher's list, photo illustrations & map. A rather good copy in what seems to be the original glassine wrapper. ¶ Second printing; in Murray's Imperial Library. I'm not sure why Grahame (ie Graeme Williams) was quite so bitter about William Lane and his utopian emigration to Paraguay. In this, his most extended revilement (he had already published a couple of pamphlets), Grahame assured his readers that he spent 'over five hundred nights in a mud hut at 'New Australia'' and its easy to conclude that he was a disillusioned settler, but I'm not sure whether that explains the depth of his hatred for any communistic or socialist behavior.

Keywords: history politics c19th Paraguay socialism utopia communism progress Lane Cosme New Australia social sciences reform