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New Publications

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  • Title: New Publications
  • Date: 24 September 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: per.01199
  • Source: Brooklyn Daily Times, 24 September 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 Jason Stacy Karie Cobb
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "New Publications." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 16 July 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: per.01199.xml (TEI)
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NEW PUBLICATIONS.

We have received Harpers’ Magazine1 for October. It is a capital number and full of interesting articles and illustrations. The paper entitled “the ship of the desert” gives with its accompanying cuts, a full description of the Camel; “A Winter at the South” abounds in picturesque word-painting; and the tales of “The Bronze Gaiters,” “The Pride of Moses Grant” and “The Fair Dona Bella” are equal to anything of the kind we have ever read.

The “Weekly”2 of the same publishers has also been received. It is fully up to the mark.

“Viola” is one of the series of Harper’s Story Books. It is well-calculated to please and instruct children.

We have received from the publishers, Leonard Scott and Co.,3 the North British Review for August. Under the new regime, we find the “North British” as orthodox as it was in the beginning and before Kingsley and his compeers made it the organ of the new philosophy. It had articles on Bacon; Watts; French treatment of criminals; Interior China; Scottish Lunacy Commission; English Metrical Critics; The Marriage and Divorce Bill; Early Christian Songs; Inspiration; The Indian Crisis. The Quarterly is eminently worthy of the attention of intelligent readers.

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3. Leonard Scott & Co. was a New York publishing company created by Leonard Scott (1810–1895) that focused on reprinting British magazines. [back]

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