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New Publications

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  • Title: New Publications
  • Date: 11 December 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: per.01326
  • Source: Brooklyn Daily Times, 11 December 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 Jamie DeRousse Jason Stacy Stephanie Blalock 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.01326.xml (TEI)
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NEW PUBLICATIONS.

THE LONDON QUARTERLY REVIEW, for October. The contents of this number are—a paper on “Cornwall;” “Tom Brown’s School Days;” “Communication with India;” “Venetian Embassy at the Court of James I.” “A voyage to Iceland;” “The Parish Priest;” “George Stephenson;” and “The Indian Mutiny.” None of these demand special remark, except those on Communication with India and a Voyage to Iceland. The former establishes, what in fact has been proved before, that the Suez canal project is impracticable, and the same may be said of the Euphrates Valley route, which proposed to cross Africa by means of river steamers along the Euphrates and Tigris. The article on Iceland reveals many interesting facts about that unknown land, among which is the singular statement that the ordinary colloquy of that country is carried on in Latin, so that the language of the ancient Romans is not a dead language after all.

ARTHUR’S HOME MAGAZINE for January contains an excellent steel plate, a colored fashion plate, and several other beautiful illustrations, besides the usual quantity of entertaining reading matter.

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