Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises

[229] first two were withdrawn from the mail as seditious under President McKinley's administration. A more complete triumph of personal independence was perhaps never seen in our literature, and it is easy to recognize the triumph it achieved for a high-minded and courageous as well as constitutionally self-willed man. The periodical exerted an influence which lasts to this day, although the rapidity of political change has now thrown it into the background for all except the systematic student of history. It seemed to Mr. Atkinson, at any rate, his crowning work.

The books published by Edward Atkinson were the following: “The distribution of Profits,” 1885; “The industrial progress of the nation,” 1889; “The Margin of profit,” 1890; “Taxation and work,” 1892; “Facts and figures the basis of economic science,” 1894. This last was printed at the Riverside Press, the others being issued by Putnam & Co., New York. He wrote also the following papers in leading periodicals: “Is Cotton our King?” ( “Continental Monthly,” March, 1862); “Revenue reform” ( “Atlantic,” October, 1871); “An American view of American competition” ( “Fortnightly,” London, March, 1879); “The Unlearned Professions” ( “Atlantic,” June, 1880); “What makes the rate of interest”