bourgeois papers. I have sent on the Cris and Intransigeants you sent 
me, to Bebel and Liebknecht but that does not go much further and 
may not always reach them. 

It strikes me as very curious that I see nothing of the Villefranche 
judgment being appealed against.°75 As far as I know there is a 
double appeal 1) on account of the alleged incompetency of the court, 
2) against the judgment as such; and then a final pourvoz en cassation* 
on both these issues. It seems to me well worth while to go in for that, 
if only to expose the infamy of the courts and keep the thing before 
the public. 

I scarcely dare hope that Roche will get in next Sunday. Not 
having read any Cris for about a week, I do not know what other can- 
didates besides Gaulier are in the field. But anyhow the poll will show 
a great progress and be enough to frighten the Radicals *?° still more. 

Here all is muddle. Bax and Morris are getting deeper and deeper into 
the hands of a few anarchist phraseurs, and write nonsense with in- 
creasing intensity. The turning of The Commonweal into a ‘weekly’ — 
absurd in every respect-— has given Edward a chance of getting out 
of his responsibility for this now incalculable organ.>’’ Bax a la re- 
cherche,” by means of half-digested Hegelian dialectic, of extreme and 
paradox propositions, and Morris going head foremost, bull fashion, 
against ‘parliamentarism’, will have to learn by experience what sort 
of people their anarchist friends are. It would be ridiculous to expect 
the working class to take the slightest notice of these various vagaries 
of what is by courtesy called English Socialism, and it is very fortu- 
nate that it is so: These gentlemen have quite enough to do to set their 
own brains in order. 

Schorlemmer who is here, and Nim have taken little Lily to the 
Zoo, Pumps is going to Manchester for a few days. In our evening 
chats we talk a good deal of your promised coming over to London. 
When is that to be? Schorlemmer says you had mentioned something 
about Paul coming over at the same time. That would be all the bet- 
ter. Anyhow it is getting time that these good intentions set about de- 
veloping into more or less tangible plans and projects, the season for 
execution is not too long in this blessed climate. 

Did you see in last Sozialdemokrat the affair about Kalle and the 
Weibergemeinschaft? That fellow was nicely caught. He is a great 

* appeal - > in search 

light among the National Liberals ?*° and has large chemical (dye- 
stuff) works at Wiesbaden. 
Love from Schorlemmer and Nim and yours affectionately, 

F. Engels 

Paul I hope will excuse if I do not write to him as often as I should 
like.