London, 2 July 1877 

Dear Liebknecht, 

You would have spared both of us a great deal of unnecessary 
annoyance had you at once informed me of the simple fact that 
the supplement would actually be appearing now, and that you 
were going to publish my articles in it.“°° From your earlier letters 
I could only assume that the supplement could not appear before 
October and had, moreover, already been incorporated into the 
review* scheduled to come out at that time; hence I could only 
assume that, despite the resolution, you proposed to print the 
sequel to the article in the main body of the Vorwarts. Hence my 
many misgivings—all too justified in the event. 

I have sent Ramm three articles and am today taking the 
precaution of writing to him again to say that he can go ahead 
with their publication in the supplement. A fourth article is 
finished and I am working on a fifth. Unfortunately there are all 
manner of lets and hindrances; the day after tomorrow I have to 
go to Manchester for a few days, and after that, my wife being 
unwell, to the seaside **° where, however, I shall nevertheless be 
able to do a few hours’ work every day. 

As regards Urquhart, we have taken steps to get the material 
together,” 

a Die Zukunft 

The round of trials and/or sentencings seems to be getting even 
merrier over there.””' You ought to amend the penal code so that 
you can spend your nights in jug——or more precisely your prison 
cot—and be at large during the day. 

It seems to us that the Vorwärts is taking the business in France 
a trifle too lightly.?” True, it’s no immediate concern of the 
workers and they know it and say: a vous maintenant, MM. les 
bourgeois, faites votre jeu!* All the same, it’s of the utmost 
importance to future developments in France that the present lull 
before the next workers’ movement should occur under the 
régime of a bourgeois republic when Gambetta & Co. would 
discredit themselves, rather than, as hitherto, under imperial 
pressure when they would regain their popularity and, on the day 
of action, assume the leadership again; that the squabbling over 
forms of government, now meaningless in France, should finally 
cease, and the republic appear for what it is—the classical form of 
bourgeois rule and simultaneously that of its impending dissolu- 
tion. Come to that, you’d damned well know it in Germany if 
reaction were to be victorious in France.?” 

So far all has gone well on the Danube. An oriental army like 
that of the Turks, unfit for use in big strategical operations, could 
not possibly prevent the Russians from crossing.** But this is 
compensated by the fact that an oriental army of this kind is never 
the victim of its own stupidity. We shall now see how the Russians 
propose to feed their army in Bulgaria. With every step they 
advance their difficulties mount up in geometrical progression and 
the peculiar performance under fire of the best they have—the 
Caucasian army in Armenia—does not augur well for them. 
Meanwhile Montenegro is being reduced to pulp. I’m particularly 
glad for G. Rasch’s sake.?” 

Your 
F. E.