Publisher's Synopsis
MR. GARRETT, for many years leading financial writer for several New York dailies and the first editor of the New York Times's "Annalist," seems to have embarked on the extremely interesting task of dramatizing-or rather novelizing- American industry, commerce and finance. The first of what is already a trilogy was "The Driver," of which the main subjects are finance and the railroads; the second was "The Cinder Buggy," a novelization of the steel-industry; and the third, his latest, is "Satan's Bushel," which is based on the wheat that grows in the field, and the unseen bushels that are bought and sold on the boards of trade.In this third novel Mr. Garrett almost attains the level o poetry, for he has recorded the romance of grain with an understanding and beauty that may be termed mystical. His Dreadwind is the speculator in the grain-pit, who, never having seen wheat growing, journeys to the farms and becomes aware of the tragic life of those who reap and sow, a life symbolized in the person of Absalom Weaver, a symbol also of the reaper of the ages. The lives of these two men cross each other through Cordelia, daughter of the farmer and beloved by the erstwhile grain-trader.
