in "Herr Vogt" (see Preface to Revolution and Counter-Revolution, p. ix.). And in a short biographical note, written at his dictation, he says: "A regular collaborator on the TRIBUNE up to the beginning of the American Civil War, writing not only the English correspondence signed with his name, but a mass of leading articles on the European and Asiatic movement."
In one or two cases it would appear that part of his letter was used as a leader, and the rest left in the letter form. Hence, in these one or two cases, the reader will find the leader and the letter bearing the same newspaper date.
The volume ends with four papers on the fall of Kars. These, in substance, appeared in the New York Tribune.They appeared in the form in which they are now given, in Ernest Jones' People's Paper, for which Marx en-larged and revised them. And a summary of these four Kars papers was made by their author for the Free Press. This summary is not printed in the present volume. These Kars articles produced at the time a very remarkable sensation, and were the immediate cause of a vote of thanks from the Sheffield Foreign Affairs Committee for the "great public service rendered by the admirable exposé."
In the present reprint it has not been thought wise to speak of chapters; so that the letters or leaders are merely numbered in succession. In most cases the letters con-tained, besides passages dealing with the Eastern Question, passages dealing with other matters. In the present volume all the latter passages are omitted. As a conse-quence some of the letters appear to be very short. A heading has been given to each of the CXIII. divisions of the book. These headings correspond generally with the headings in the New York Tribune, for which probably the American editor was responsible.
All quotations have been printed in smaller type, and all italics in them are those of Marx.
In the original letters there was necessarily a great deal of quotation from newspapers and despatches. In almost all cases précis have been made of these quotations, some of
