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“...continually
readread and kept himself posted on the widest range of
matters; prepared and delivered a nunrfber of masterful lec-
tures, many of which have been published in pamphlet form;
he translated from the German Bebels Woman under So-
cialism, Lassalles Franz von Sickingen, Marxs Eight-
eenth Brumaire, Engels Utopia to Science, artd the Kaut-
sky Pamphlets. From the French he translated the twenty-
one volumes of Eugene Sues work, The Mysteries of the
People, or the History of a Proletarian Family Across the
Ages, in itself a momentous work, both as to quantity and
quality, and fiction form,
written from the point of view of the class struggle as seen
and felt by the oppressed, which but for him might have re-
mained a closed book to the English-speaking world because
of the existence of the very agencies, still active, that so bit-
terly hated Sue and his latter-day works. Add to this that
De Leon...”
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