A few years ago, I read Dilke, Charles Wentworth. 1875. "Memoir of Charles Wentworth Dilke." in Charles Wentworth Dilke, ed. The Papers of a Critic Selected from the Writings of the Late Charles Wentworth Dilke. With a biographical sketch by his grandson, 2 vols. (London: John Murray): pp. 1-91. What was truly weird was that he really didn't do that much except for this one brilliant paper. I couldn't get a feel for the inspiration or the precedents of his work. Incidentally, Marx did not plagiarize Dilkey. He wrote it anonymously. I'm not sure that anyone knew who the author was prior to the book I just mentioned. I suspect that the book was not particularly widely read. Nor was there that much interest in conventional circles about Dilkey's piece.
-- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
