Before my eyes rose the colossal city of my dreams, a vast intricate triple metropolis, with superimposed avenues, crowded with traffic; the two lower strata vibrantly brilliant in an electric flood; the upper interlaced with vertiginous spans that supported great concourses, lined with trees and parkways. The Pennsylvania and Grand Central Stations, trebled in stature, discharged passengers on the concourses of the middle stage which was reserved for pedestrians solely. The scene which had evidently been filmed at the opening of business, showed the ceaseless inflow of vast multitudes which were regimented according to destination and marched in military formation under the vigilant control of thousands of traffic officers. Heavy traffic and incoming automobiles were rigorously kept on the lower avenue, and only private automobiles of the greatest luxury circulated above. Each block was treated as an architectural entity rising five hundred feet and flanked with enormous towers at each corner with a central landing place for aeroplanes which swarmed over the sky. Seen thus with its standardized armies of workers it resembled nothing else than a cross section of an ant hill or a beehive. But, abruptly, when my curiosity was just aroused, the scene shifted to the new capital, Europa, showing the great woman scientist, Selma Benegal, in her laboratory, experimenting with electronic disassociation and the startling discovery of the deadly electroid ray. Next came the declaration of war by the feminine controlled states of Europe on the Americas; the consternation in New York, the panic in the Senate at Washington as President McGuffy at the wireless telephone, indignantly demanded of Europa some justifying explanation. Reply of the European Council. An epochal note relegating to the dust heap all the hypocrisies of the old man-made diplomacy:--“Europe makes war because Europe is ready to conquer!” Then, while my head swam, came in quick succession shots of the hasty assemblage of the volunteer air forces of America; politicians proclaiming that America was rising like one man; while all the time the great European armada of the air was seen embarking in the night, a hundred armored aeroplanes equipped with the new Z-ray destroyers. While I sat thus twisting my hands, I beheld the dreadful meeting at dawn and the sickening destruction of the feeble American forces as the Z-rays, with the crash of thunderbolts withered everything that opposed them. I saw the armada sweep on toward New York; the panic in Babylon; the first bolts toppling over the skyscrapers; crazed multitudes flinging themselves from the topmost windows. I saw New York collapse like an ant hill under the fall of an immense foot.