Preface.--Letter of commission.--Aims of the international associations on social legislation, by E. Fuster.--Syllabus.--Lecture I. Foundations of social programmes in economic facts and in social ideals.--Lecture II. Public and private relief of dependents and abnormals.--Lecture III. Policy of the Western world in relation to the anti-social.--Lecture IV. Public health, education, and morality.--Lecture V. Movements to improve the economic and cultural situation of wage-earners.--Lecture VI. Providing for progress.