London, 9 March 1894 
122 Regent’s Park Road, N. W. 

Dear Sir, 

My reply to your esteemed letter of 26.2 has been somewhat delayed *“* by 
my absence from London. **° 

Things do not look very bright so far as English socialist literature is 
concerned. The leading publisher of books of this nature is Sonnenschein 
(W. Swan Sonnenschein & Co., Paternoster Square). While there is a lot of 
inferior stuff amongst his SOCIAL SCIENCE SERIES, it also contains the 
following: 

W. Morris and E. B. Bax, Socialism, its Growth and Outcome; 

E. B. Bax, The Religion of Socialism; do., 

The Ethics of Socialism; 

Aveling, E. AND E. M[arx-Aveling], The Working Class Movement in 
America; 

Lafargue, The Evolution of Property; 

E. B. Bax, Outlooks from the New Standpoint; 

Hyndman, Commercial Panics of the 19th Century; 

Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844; do., 
Socialism, Scientific and Utopian 

etc. Again, the value of these things varies greatly. 

There is also a multitude of shorter propaganda pamphlets of very varied 
quality, some being really good, some deplorably bad; none are easily 
obtainable through book shops. Most were published by the SOCIAL 
DEMOCRATIC FEDERATION “ and the FABIAN SOCIETY. * 

There is no journal similar to the Neue Zeit in this country. The socialist 
weeklies are: 

Justice (organ of the SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC FEDERATION), 
publisher H. Quelch, 37a, Clerkenwell Green, London, E. C. 

Workman’s Times, 59, Tile St., Manchester (MANCHESTER LABOUR 
PRESS SOCIETY). 

That is about all the information I can give you. I fear, however, that the 
sort of Englishmen you meet in Wiesbaden will be unlikely to provide many 
suitable candidates for our party. 

Yours very truly, 

F. Engels