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Book Notices

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  • Title: Book Notices
  • Date: 5 August 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: per.01132
  • Source: Brooklyn Daily Times, 5 August 1857: 2. Our transcription is based on a digital image of a microfilm scan of the original issue. Microfilm of original issue held at Pennsylvania State University Libraries. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the journalism, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Editorial note: This piece is unsigned, as was the case for most of Whitman's journalism. However, this editorial is part of a series of texts that deal with a coherent theme that has been identified by the Whitman Archive journalism team as likely authored by Whitman. This decision is based on a combination of historical and (auto)biographical accounts, similarity to contemporary Whitman writings, a history of scholarly attribution, extant clippings retained by Whitman, computational stylometric analysis, and, in some cases, manuscript evidence in Whitman’s hand.
  • Contributors to digital file: Thara Michaelis Kaylen Michaelis Jamie DeRousse Jason Stacy Karie Cobb Stephanie Blalock
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Book Notices." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 16 July 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: per.01132.xml (TEI)
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BOOK NOTICES.

How To Do Business: a New Pocket Manual of Practical Affairs, and Guide to Success in Life. Fowler & Wells, Publishers,1 No. 308 Broadway, New York.

This closes Messrs. Fowler & Wells' first series of hand-books for home improvement. The previous numbers—"How to Write," "How to Talk," and "How to Behave," have had a very extensive sale, having already run through several editions, and been greeted with very general commendation both by the press and the people, in all sections of the country. The work is a complete manual for the man of business, and indeed no one who has any affairs at all to transact, can fail to profit by following its directions. No man who would mould his conduct on the principles here laid down, need fail in the pursuits in which he may engage.

Messrs. Fowler & Wells have also published, in a neat and portable form, the speech delivered by the Hon. Horace Mann, before the Christian Convention at Cincinnati, entitled "Demands of the age on Colleges."

Notes:

1. Lorenzo Niles Fowler (1811–1896) and his brother-in-law Samuel R. Wells (1809–1887) were practitioners of phrenology, a pseudoscience popular in the nineteenth century. They owned and operated the Phrenological Depot on Broadway, which contained phrenological materials and books and offered phrenological readings. They also operated a printing business and were responsible for printing the expanded second edition of Leaves of Grass (1856). In addition, they published Life Illustrated, The American Phrenological Journal, and The Water Cure Journal. Whitman contributed to both Life Illustrated and The Phrenological Journal. [back]

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