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92 of Civilization in Europe," by Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot; "History of Civilization in England," by Henry Thomas Buckle; and as supplementary reading "The Mysteries of the People, or History of a Proletarian Family Across the Ages," by Eugene Sue, translated from the original French by Daniel De Leon. The last work by Sue in this series consists of 21 volumes, and is really a universal history in itself, depicting the class struggle as it has raged through the ages and under the different social systems. For a study of social development in America the works listed below will be found suitable; these works are written by scholars well ground in the theories of Historical Materialism, and, consequently lay bare the actual driving forces responsible for and behind social change in this country: "American Industrial Evolution from Frontier to Factory," by Justus Ebert; "Social Forces in American History," by A.M. Simons; and "The Workers in American History," by James Oneal.

It is now also necessary that the student acquaint himself with the inception and growth of the Socialist movement, a growth, however, that has not always kept abreast with the development of theoretical Socialism. The following classics of Socialist literature and historic documents should now be critically read: "The Communist Manifesto," by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels; "Revolution and Counter-Revolution, or Germany in 1848," erroneously credited to and published under the name of Karl Marx, but actually written by Frederick Engels; "The Class Struggle in France 1848-1850," by Karl Marx; "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon," by Karl Marx; and "The Civil War in France" ("The Paris Commune"), by Karl Marx. In conjunction with the foregoing the following works, dealing in the main with American conditions and problems, may be profitably read: "History of Socialism in the United States," by Morris Hillquit; "Proceedings of the Ninth Convention of the S.L.P."; "Proceedings of the Tenth National Convention of the S.L.P., 1900"; "New Jersey Socialist Unity Conference";