Mr. Bernard Bosanquet for rendering it possible for English
readers to obtain a definite idea of what the Socialists themselves can hardly define,—the aim of Socialism. Dr. Schiiffie tells us
that it took him years to familiarise himself with some of the
more revolutionary tenets of advanced Socialist thinkers. We cannot hope, therefore, that the majority of readers will do as well.
Still, they will hare in this volume of a little over a hundred pages one of the clearest expositions of Socialism, p aticularly Collectivism, they are ever likely to receive, and the mastery of this
volume is more in the power of the ordinary intellect of man than that of the treatises of the Socialist leaders themselves. We should add that The Quintessence of Socialism first appeared in the Deutsch. e Mater of 1874, and has been translated from the eighth and last edition under the supervision of Mr. Bosanquet.
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