John Clute at the
SF Encyclopedia
describes the short play as “almost predictive of
H. G. Wells’s
1053 } The Time Machine,” with Eloi-like upper
classes and Morlock-like lower classes—but apart from having such future beings, there are
no actual time phenomena in the play. However, the play does mention mechanical horses, steam
porters, and automata secretaries who, among other things, write notes of condelences and/or
congratulations (sometimes mixing them up).
— Michael Main
It is amusing to look at the descriptions of manners as they existed in those times.
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