and our co-operative plan puts them within the reach of workingmen at a fraction of the prices usually charged for sociological works. And all this has been accomplished practically without capital, except such as has been painfully raised in small sums from the people 'who want the socialist books circulated.

BOOKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED.

During the last year we have had exceptional chances for securing books of the utmost value to the movement on favorable terms, and we have therefore added to our list more rapidly than ever before. The consequence is that our sales, though larger than ever, have not been enough to cover the heavy outlay required by bringing out so many new books at once. Moreover, many of the comrades who have been accustomed to buying each new book as fast as published have not been able to keep up with us. The consequence is that though our total sales have been large the sale of each new book has been somewhat less than we had counted on. We will here name over the principal publications which we have added to our list during the last year, since many readers of the Review have doubtless overlooked some of them, and will want to send for them at once upon being reminded.

Marx's Capital. The first volume of this great work was published by us last December. Previous to that time we had been importing and selling the London edition, translated by Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling, and edited by Frederick Engels. Our own edition is an accurate reprint of this, except that it has been revised by Ernest Untermann so as to include the additions and changes made by Engels in the fourth German edition. It also contains a complete topical index, a feature never included in any previous edition, English or German. Typographically it is far superior to any previous edition, and the price is $2.00, remarkably low for a book of 869 large pages. We issued 2,000 copies, and they are nearly all sold, so that a new edition will soon be needed.

We published the second volume last July. This is an entirely new translation, by Ernest Untermann. The volume, although published in the German language in 1885, has never until now been within the reach of American readers. The London publishers of the first volume have given us an advance order for 500 copies of the second. The sale of this volume up to the present time in the United States however, up to this time, has been small, considering the great importance of the work, and we hope that every reader of the Review who has not yet ordered the volume will do so at once. The price is $2.00, the same as the first volume.

Comrade Untermann has nearly completed his translation of the third and final volume, which we hope to publish early in 1908. The

translation is paid for by Comrade Eugene Dietzgen as a gift to the American socialist movement. The printing will, however, involve an outlay of about $1500, since the third volume is even larger than the first. A considerable addition to our working capital will therefore be necessary in order to bring out this volume.

International Library of Social Science. This series of important socialist works in large and handsomely printed volumes at a dollar each was started at the beginning of 1906, and we shall mention here only the later volumes, since the earlier one are more than a year old. The Positive Outcome of Philosophy, by Joseph Ditzgen, translated by Ernest Untermann, is a work only second to the masterpieces of Marx and Engels in its importance to the student of socialism. Socialism and Philosophy, by, Antonio Labriola, is far simpler in style and expression than the author's earlier work, "Essays on the Materialistic Conception of History." It continues the discussion of the subject in the form of familiar letters to Sorel, a prominent socialist of France. The Physical Basis of Mind and Morals, by M. H. Fitch, is noteworthy in that the author, with no knowledge of the literature of socialism, has reached substantially the same conclusions as Marx, Engels and Dietzgen by an entirely different route, starting with the data furnished by Herbert Spencer and pointing out the errors of his bourgeois followers. Revolutionary Essays, by Peter E. Burrowes, is a well known work by a well known social1st writer, which has been added to our list within the last year. The Rise of the American Proletarian, by Austin Lewis, is a strong clear application of Marx's historical method to the recent history of the United States. Lafargue has lately pointed out that socialists have thus far been too ready to talk about historical materialism rather than to use the principle in a scientific way to explain facts and throw light on social problems. Austin Lewis has in this book done a work that was greatly needed, and his book is interesting enough and easy enough for a new inquirer, while it is original and searching enough to repay the study of the best informed socialist. The Theoretical System of Karl Marx, by Louis B. Boudin, is a statement of the Marxian system in the light of recent criticism. He shows how the various parts of the system are related so that the acceptance of one part involves the acceptance of the rest. The book forms an admirable introduction to the study of "Capital." Landmarks of Scientific Socialism, by Frederick Engels, is a translation by Austin Lewis of all the valuable portions, hitherto unpublished in English, of Engels' great work "Anti-Duehring." This is one of the indispensable classics of socialism.

Standard Socialist Series. This series includes the best obtainable socialist books that can be printed in convenient pocket form and retailed at 50c. They are handsomely bound in cloth in the same style as the larger volumes. Twenty-two of those volumes

are now ready, but we mention here only those published within a year. Social and Philosophical Studies, by Paul Lafargue, explains why the capitalists tend to be religious and the wage-workers otherwise, and also explains the origin of the ideas of Justice and Goodness. What's So and What Isn't, by John M. Work, is one of the best popular answers to the objections usually urged against socialism. Ethics and the Materialist Conception of History in the latest work of Karl Kautsky, the foremost Marxian writer in Germany. Class Struggles in America, by A. M. Simons, is a revision of the author's popular pamphlet by the same title, and includes references to authorities which give ample proof for the startling assertions made. Socialism, Positive and Negative, by Robert Rives LaMonte, is in many respects the clearest and most brilliant exposition of socialism yet written by an American author; it is a book for those who are not afraid to know the truth. Capitalist and Laborer, by John Spargo, is a courteous yet telling reply to the arguments recently offered by Prof. Goldwin Smith and W. H. Mallock against socialism. The Right to Be Lazy and Other Studies, by Paul Lafargue, is a new translation by Charles H. Kerr of the first study in the book, with five other studies now for the first time offered in book form. Revolution and Counter-Revolution, by Karl Marx, is the first American edition of one of Mark's easiest and most popular books, heretofore sold only in an imported edition at a higher price.

Ancient Society. This great work by Lewis H. Morgan has hitherto been kept out of the reach of workingmen by being held at the price of $4.00. We have published an excellent edition at $1.50.

The Ancient Lowly. A little over a year ago we purchased the remainder of the old edition of this great work of Osborne Ward from the author's heirs. We closed out the old editions, and within the last year we have published new and uniform editions of the two volumes at $2.00 a volume, either volume sold separately.

The American Esperanto Book. There is an increasing demand from socialists for a text-book in the new international language, and we have lately published at $1.00 an admirable book by Arthur Baker which will enable any student to master the language without the aid of any other book.

Pocket Library of Socialism. We have during the last year enlarged this series of five cent booklets from 45 numbers to 60 by the purchase of the pamphlets formerly issued by the Standard Publishing Company of Terre Haute, Ind. Some of these are exellent books, while others are of an opportunist or sentimentalist character. As fast as the supply of such booklets is exhausted we are replacing them with better ones. Among the new booklets thus issued lately are Science and Socialism, by Robert Rives LaMonte, Marx on Cheapness, translated by LaMonte, What Socialists Think,

by Charles H. Kerr, From Revolution to Revolution, by George D. Herron, Why a Workingman should be a Socialist, by Gaylord Wilshire, and History and Economics, by J. E. Sinclair. Any one of these will be mailed for 5c, and we are for a short time offering the full set of sixty 5c books postpaid with the International Socialist Review six months, all for a dollar.

Ten cent Books. We have within a year added considerably to our list of ten cent books by buying out the Standard Publishing Co. We mention here only the books of which we have printed editions within a year. The latest of these is Hillquit's official report on behalf of the Socialist Party of America to the Stuttgart congress. This is published under the title Recent Progress of the Socialist and Labor Movements in the United States. Other recent books are The Right to Be Lazy, by Paul Lafargue, Socialism, Revolution and Internationalism, by Gabriel Deville, and Not Guilty, a play in three acts by John Spargo.

Twenty-five Cent Books.. Of these we have lately added to our list The Civil War in France, by Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, by Karl Marx, Science and the Workingmen, by Ferdinand Lassalle, and The Passing of Capitalism, by Isador Ladoff.

What Are We Here For? This book by F. Dundas Todd was originally published by another house at $1.00. It is a book on ethics from the socialist view-point but with much of the old-time phraseology, which may make it all the more acceptable to some just beginning to break with capitalistic ideas. The author has contributed several hundred sets of sheets to the publishing house, and to get the books into circulation quickly, we have decided to offer them in paper cover at 50c, subject to our usual dis

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counts.

AS TO FINANCES.

One copy each of the new books we have named would come to $23.70 at retail prices. But we have issued on an average at least 2,000 each of the books during the last year, not to speak of many other titles which we have reprinted. This gives some idea of the expenditures we have had to make. There are many other books

such

as

the movement needs that we want to bring out within the

next few months, but to do this more money must be raised. More

over,

as we explained in the Review last month, we need to raise

about $2,000 immediately to put the business on a cash basis and avoid paying seven per cent interest, which the banks are now charg

ing.

cent.

These same banks are paying their depositors only three per
We can afford to pay four per cent, and to comrades lending

money on thirty days' call at this rate we offer security good enough

for a bank. But we hope in a short time to have enough new cooperative stockholders to make borrowing unnecessary.

What $10.00 Will Do.

Send us $10.00 and we will send you a full-paid certificate for a share of stock and will also send you books to the amount of $5.00 at retail prices by express at your expense or books to the amount of $4.00 at retail prices by mail or express prepaid. The stock draws no dividends, but it entitles you to buy all books published by us, in small or large quantities as you want them, at a discount of fifty per cent if you pay the expressage, or forty per cent if we send by mail or express prepaid.

CONTRIBUTIONS ACKNOWLEDGED.

On page 127 of last month's Review Charles H. Kerr offered to contribute to the publishing house $2100 provided an equal sum be contributed by other stockholders for the purpose of paying off the floating debt. He has decided to modify that offer so that if the contributions do not reach the sum of $2100, he will contribute an amount equal to that given by all the others. The contributions thus far received are as follows:

The other receipts of the month were excellent considering the season of the year, $154.72 from subscriptions and sales of the Review, $220 from the sale of stock and $1707.35 from book sales. But September's receipts must be far larger if we are to, get through the month without serious embarassment. The thing to do is for YOU to write us as soon you have read this, enclosing what money you can as a stock subscription, a contribution or a loan, or in payment for a Review subscription or for books. The time we need the money is not next month or next year but NOW.