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 R}VIr, WS 791 -the change of situation caused last spring by the dismissal of Prince Bismarck, the repeal of the Socialist law, and the gains of the Socialist party at the general election. But some important points are also .omitted in the more recent history even before 1887. Something shoald have been said of the specific activity of the Socialist party in the legislature on the labour question, mo.re especially of the bills they introduced in 1885 in the only parliament except the present one in which they had the number of deputies necessary to back a bill. Jon RAE