ere one is to make many book talks to much
the same audience there are a great many ways in which it can be varied.

I will now submit a book talk which has enabled me to sell thousands of
copies of the book it deals with. This is a ten-cent book, and this
price is high enough for the speaker's experiments. The speaker will
later find it surprisingly easy, when he has mastered the art _to sell
fifty-cent and dollar books_.

The speaker may use the substance of this talk in his own language, or,
commit it to memory and reproduce it verbatim. Any one who finds the
memorizing beyond his powers should abandon public speaking and devote
his energies to something easy.

BOOK TALK NO. 1.

ENGELS' SOCIALISM, UTOPIAN AND SCIENTIFIC.

For some time previous to the year 1875 the German Socialist
party had been divided into two camps--the Eisenachers and the
Lassallians. About that time they closed their ranks and
presented to the common enemy a united front. So great was their
increase of strength from that union that they were determined
never to divide again. They would preserve their newly won unity
at all costs.

No sooner was this decision made than it seemed as if it was
destined to be overthrown. Professor Eugene Duehring, Privat
Docent of Berlin University, loudly proclaimed himself a convert
to Socialism. When this great figure from the bourgeois
intellectual world stepped boldly and somewhat noisily into the
arena, there was not wanting a considerable group of young and
uninitiated members in the party who flocked to his standard and
found in him a new oracle.

This would have been well enough if Duehring had been content to
take Socialism as he found it or if he had been well enough
informed to make an intelligent criticism of it and reveal any
mistakes in its positions. But he was neither the one or the
other. He undertook, without the slightest qualification for the
task, to overthrow Marx and establish a new Socialism which
should be free from the lamentable blunders of the Marxian
school.

Marx was a mere bungler and the whole matter must be set right
without delay. This was rather a large task, but the Professor
went at it in a large way. He did it in the approved German
manner. Germany would be forever disgraced if any philosopher
took up a new position about anything without going back to t