ENGELS TO EDUARD BERNSTEIN‘ 

[London,] 20 October [1890] 

Tussy arrived home yesterday morning. Adler had told her that 
Louise Kautsky had come back from Berchtesgaden in the best of spi- 
rits, was looking 10 years younger and proving a tremendous success. 
. Tussy was very full of the congress '?; the masses, she said, were first- 
rate but the parliamentary group for the most part still philistine — 
Bebel had been greatly alarmed upon hearing of the electoral victo- 
ries of certain of their number and had at once written to say that, 
while the damage had already been done, it must not be allowed to 

 philistine tinge-? P. Lafargue, ‘Karl Marx. Persénliche Erinnerungen’, Die Neue 
Ket, 9. Jg. 1890/91, 1. Bd., Nr. 1-2.-° This letter is a postscript to Eleanor Marx- 
Aveling’s letter to Engels of 16 October 1890 from Halle, which he sent to Bernstein. - 
“ Victor Adler 

happen again. Provided this gang follows Bebel’s lead, things will still 
be all right. 

Your 

F.E. 

I am sending what remains of the reports, amongst them a Ham- 
burg paper, as I don’t know whether you have already got the Berlin 
report about the 14th of October.*