CONTENTS Social Movements Karl Marx Manifesto of the Communist Party Friedrich Engels Scientific Socialism Interstate Commerce Commission The Public Control of Railroads A Comparison of Municipal and Private Ownership H. W. Macrosty (Fabian Society) English State Socialism Social Conditions Robert Somers The South after the War Redfield Proctor Conditions in Cuba F. H. Sawyer Prospects in the Philippines Life and Character of the Tagals Arch]ology F. E. Peiser A Sketch of Babylonian Society Physics James Clerk Maxwell Electricity a Wave in the Ether M. Henri Poincare The Maxwell and Hertz Theory of Electricity and Light W. K. Roentgen The X-Rays W. H. Preece Wireless Telegraphy: the Preece and Marconi Systems Chemistry D. J. Mendeleef The Periodic Law of the Chemical Elements Sir Norman Lockyer The Chemistry of the Stars Biology August Weisman The Continuity of the Germ Plasm as the Foundation of a Theory of Heredity Robert Koch Theory of Bacteria Louis Pasteur On Fermentation Inoculation for Hydrophobia Psychology David Ferrier Localization of the Functions in the Brain Sir William Crookes Telepathy Philology The Consonants (Grimm's and Verner's Laws) The Vowels The Derivation of English from Latin Chronological Index General Alphabetical and Analytical Index