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With this issue we start the publication of a review made by Jaime de Angulo, a member of Section Baltimore, Socialist Labor Party, of the distinguished Madrid professor of psychology L. Simarro's two-volumed work on "The Trial of Ferrer and European Public Opinion."

The exhaustive and conscientious work, done by the reviewer of Prof. Simarro's eminently critical, and equally exhaustive and conscientious production, is a service of prime magnitude rendered to the English speaking world on a great contemporaneous event, of interest the world over.

The Dark Affair of Ferrer's death is generally known only by scraps of information. The scraps are in many instances luminous; yet their very scrappiness furnishes the world-over political machine which encompassed Ferrer's assassination with opportunities to double and twist, and to seek to acquit itself.

Prof. Simarro's production is the first attempt at a critical and historic unveiling of the latest tragedy of the many that have come down the Ages—historic tragedies enacting on a world-wide stage the world-wide conflict between Light and Darkness. Even so Prof. Simarro's work is accessible only to those blessed with leisure enough to read a book, and gifted with the Spanish language.