Dedication -- First Essay (An account of an Establishment for the Poor at Munich) -- Second Essay (On the Fundamental Principles on which General Establishments for the Relief of the Poor may be formed in all Countries) -- Third Essay (Of Food and Particularly of Feeding the Poor) -- Fourth Essay (Of Chimney Fire-places with proposals for improving them to save Fuel; to render dwelling-houses more Comfortable and Salubrious, and effectually to prevent Chimnies from Smoking) -- Fifth Essay (A Short Account of several public institutions lately formed in Bavaria)-- Appendix to the First Volume.