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             SELECTED WORKS
                   OF
          VOLTAIRINE DE CLEYRE


              Edited by
          ALEXANDER BERKMAN


         Biographical Sketch by
            HIPPOLYTE HAVEL


               NEW YORK
    MOTHER EARTH PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION
                 1914

        Set up and electrotyped.
          Published May, 1914.




               CONTENTS


                Poems

                                          Page
    The Burial of My Past Self......  17
    Night on the Graves .........  18
    The Christian's Faith ........  18
    The Freethinker's Plea........  22
    To My Mother.............  26
    Betrayed...............  27
    Optimism...............  33
    At the Grave in Waldheim.......  33
    The Hurricane ............  34
    Ut Sementem Feceris, Ita Metes....  36
    Bastard Born.............  36
    Hymn.................  42
    You and I ..............  42
    The Toast of Despair.........  44
    In Memoriam--To Dyer D. Lum .....  45
    Out of the Darkness .........  47
    Mary Wollstonecraft .........  49
    The Gods and the People .......  50
    John P. Altgeld ...........  56
    The Cry of the Unfit.........  56
    In Memoriam--To Gen. M. M. Trumbull .  58
    The Wandering Jew ..........  58
    The Feast of Vultures ........  59
    The Suicide's Defense ........  62
    A Novel of Color...........  64
    Germinal...............  65
    "Light Upon Waldheim" ........  66
    Love's Compensation .........  66
    The Road Builders ..........  68
    Angiolillo..............  69
    Ave et Vale .............  70
    Marsh-Bloom .............  74
    Written--in--Red...........  75


                Essays

                                          Page
    The Dominant Idea ..........  79
    Anarchism ..............  96
    Anarchism and American Traditions .. 118
    Anarchism in Literature ....... 136
    The Making of an Anarchist...... 154
    The Eleventh of November, 1887.... 164
    Crime and Punishment......... 173
    In Defense of Emma Goldman...... 205
    Direct Action ............ 220
    The Paris Commune .......... 243
    The Mexican Revolution........ 253
    Thomas Paine............. 276
    Dyer D. Lum ............. 284
    Francisco Ferrer........... 297
    Modern Educational Reform ...... 321
    Sex Slavery ............. 342