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Whitman's New Book.

This review is mainly a brief statement of what the volume contains, but in it Dr Harris says concisely

Thus Dr Harris also says: "The views of Kant are in themselves of the greatest interest; but as related

In regard to the general positions taken by Herbert Spencer, Prof Watson, like Dr Harris in times past

Much Reduced in Flesh and Spirits, but Able to Finish His Book—The Clos- ing Closing Scene.

AT WORK ON HIS NEW BOOK.

Whitman's oldest young friends, would assist the poet in editing his new book.

I have been a prisoner in this room for six weeks, but we think we are going to make a little rally.

"And what is the book going to contain?" someone asked.

On his table had been laid one day a queerly-shaped book entitled, "Leaves of Grass.

There was not, apparently, a single book in the room.

"He has written a book—hasn't he?" "Not as ever I hearn on."

At the Tombs prison we went among the prisoners, and the confidence and volubility with which they ran

There are two or three pieces in the book which are disagreeable; simply sensual. . . .

My book is terribly fragmentary.

We don't want books, we write books ourselves.' 'Books!' he said. 'What sort of books? Almanacs?

She set to, finished the book, and wrote the preface—thought to be the best written part of the book.

Bucke's book and in the pocket-book edition?" W. W. "No. Did you?" J. W. W.

"Harry? Morris?" he said.

waited a few minutes in a sitting-room of the usual type—on or two ornamental tables, with photograph books

and spiritual mind, pretty well absorbed in domestic work; two songs, young fellows, one of whom, Harry

Christ, which the painters have so long sought for" ; and she always maintained that the reading of the book

evening, I remember, he told us how, when living a New York, he had had a "fancy" to visit Sing-sing prison

He wrote letters for the prisoners, &c. "It was a whim." We had a long talk on manual labour.

Bucke's book? Donaldson .— Since Dr.

Bucke's book, Horace ? Traubel .— Yes.

Bucke's book. Look out! Look out! I myself swear by it.

I have had a thousand books and essays, and Dr.

Well, I don't know—I accept and consider the book as a study.

Hawthorne, or California like Bret Harte and Joaquin Miller, or the sunny south like Cable and Chandler Harris

Indeed, though his book, "Leaves of Grass" had been published, or rather printed by his own hands in

account of my visit, W. listening with much interest and smiling at times, enquiring about Ed. and Harry

I remarked that O'Connor's book "Three Tales" was advertised by the publishers, Houghton, Mifflin and

He pointed to a small heap of books near his feet and said: "Those are the books I have in- scribed for

I found W. sitting in the corner near his bed reading a book, the title of which I did not see.

I have brought the book I wanted you to inscribe for him, and I will leave it with you."

Harris, Jno. Hickman, Martin Ryerson of New Jersey, Jno. H. Reynolds of New York, Robert J.

he absorbed in his wanderings up and down in the United States, distilling its essence in his great book

If all American literature down to date save two books should be destroyed—Whitman's "Leaves of Grass

later Whitman's poems received in the New England metropolis that form of indorsement which, with a book

Makes me think of the glints we get (as in Symond's books) of the jolly old Greek cities.

Harris, the scholar and philosopher, as he halted in front of his house on the drive back from Walden

The Effort of Attorney-General Marston to Suppress the Book.

obedience to the official command of Attorney-General Marston of Massachusetts, who classified the book

The book, it will be remembered, was published in Boston in September. In conversation today, Mr.

notified Osgood & Co. that he should bring suit against them to stop the circulation of Whitman's book

entitled "To a Common Prostitute" and "A Woman Waits for Me" the official would be satisfied and the book

This gave me an opportunity of presenting him with the book and letter which my friend J. W.

He writes a good deal, and writes well; and he reads my books."

He lately sent me a copy of one of his books, most beautifully got up.

Photograph of Whitman's bedroom, showing piles of books, papers, etc.

I am very fond of a well-printed book.

When he laid down his book on the intrusion of the writer his eye, still bright and keen, glowed with

He was here, he said, to look over the proofs for his book—the new "Leaves of Grass" which J. R.

Now, that is the way it has been with my book. It has been twenty-five years building.

The book has been printed partially in every part of the United States.

, quite a large proportion of them never before printed in book form."

Osgood, the Boston publisher, was the only man, Walt Whitman said, who had offered to publish his book

I had a desk at the printing-house, and superintended everything, even the type in which the book was

In fact, I think I should like to bring out a book every year if it could be done in that way.

When the few readers the book ever had at that time finished talking about it the Hon.

The book at that time was less than a quarter as large as the complete edition, and fair criticism of

Streets, I learned that he was absent, and perhaps at the printing-office of the Republic, where his new book

Then also I was told I should find him at a printing-office, where he was printing his book.

After so many years, in which he has achieved fame, the poet has still to print his books at a job-office

The book alternates quite abruptly with a streak of prose and a streak of poetry.

The book also contains a very remarkable contribution to the literature of the late Secession struggle

That book gives an idea of wonderful force of mind, originality, and the power of making thunder roll

In that book there is the strength of the giants of old, the beauties of the creation, and the harsh

I asked him how many books he had published.

Let those who rail at that book think of that fact.

His book has not enriched him, and he has but a slender income.

Some of the books: A copy of Browning and half a dozen other books, large and small, besides papers and

figure, sitting there so quietly in his seat in the corner, reading from his large, black-covered book

A small table was littered with sheets of writing, books and papers.

And in the midst of such surroundings as these the venerable bard sat reading out of his large book,

Walt Whitman in his old age, confined to his room, with only the resource of books to while away the

and the way he said it implied that he felt it was rank robbery to charge as much as that for any book

He called to his housekeeper, who was in a room down the hall, and asked her to go up and get a book

But I like this book just a little better, getting as I did.

I rejoice more, though, that the book is not "limited", but that all who will can have a copy as good

Just after I got the book the young man who had admitted us came into the room.

No gentleman ever read such a book. No gentleman ever referred to it in the presence of ladies.

I cannot find that Carlyle ever received the book.

I saw, as Emerson wrote, that in his book were incomparable things incomparably said.

Now if only some one would read his book!

This book was "Poverty and Progress."

New York have successively, deliberately, badly cheated me), and shall continue to dispose of the books

When Walt Whitman has become a standard book like them, as I suppose he will, any firm will be glad to

Dr Bucke's book has lately been republished in Great Britain (Wilson & McCormick, Glasgow, Scot.) with

An old Philadelphia sculptor who read "Leaves of Grass" said to me: "The opposition to the book comes

There is in a now discarded preface to one of the poet's earlier books the following paragraph: "The

There are many books here and there, some of them well worn; one corner holds several Greek and Latin

Bundles of papers lie in odd places about the room; piles of books, magazines, and manuscripts are heaped

at different periods of his life, we wonder if he can ever know how very far from "worthless" the book

I tell you it's an impossibility to me; why, my whole income from my books during a recent half-year

His purpose, the moral elevation of humanity, he trusts is apparent in every page of his book.

Bucke afterwards published in his book on "Cosmic Consciousness."

In one of the books he had sent me I saw an advertisement of a pocketbook edition of "Leaves of Grass

We forwarded to him copies of some of the letters received from his friends, and such books, magazines

Bucke, who was still in London, had booked his return voyage on the Majestic , sailing from Liverpool

When writing his book, he told me in a letter that it was his address in Bolton which had started him

Camden, confined to his second story front room, with a cheerless view from the windows, surrounded by books

, papers, medicines, letters and a pile of "November Boughs" (his last book), sat Walt Whitman yesterday

It was crowded with everything—books, ink pots, fiddles on the wall, pens, sewing machines, pictures,

A table in front of him was covered with books and papers, papers and books were strewn at his feet,

and papers and books littered a big table behind him.

some days and in rainy weather content to stay shut up in my den, where I have society enough in my books

I may not be able to bring forth any more books, but I still write whenever the spirit moves me, (and

He also wrote a European book, which I named 'Wake Robin.'

O'Connor was a man of the finest literary endowment, and his little book on the Shakespeare-Bacon controversy

His War Experience and the Book He Wrote About it.

It struck me that these would make a nice little book if printed.

To be brief, however, I think the idea of my book is conveyed in that one word, 'comradeship'."

"What books do you like best?" "Well, I would say first Walter Scott, as a poet and a novelist.

I like Shakespeare and the good old book of all, the Bible; it is a poem to me.

We need not—as we cannot —get away from the man to the book, or from the book to the man, but we can

This book threw up numerous questions.

He reads current books.

He loves books from the side of the mechanic.

He appreciates Ingersoll's vivid picture of the average book— "On the title pages of these books you

presented him with a copy of his volume of poems entitled "Drum Taps," writing his autograph in the book

Proctor naively remarks that this little book has ever since remained unopened, until, when penning this

In front of him was a little marble-topped table, with two of his last books lying on top of a big family

In reply to a question as to when his book would be ready, and who was the publisher, Mr.

Whitman said: "The book will be ready now in about two weeks.

By the way, who writes the dramatic criticisms and book notices for T HE T IMES ?

It was about this time that his first book, "Blades of Grass," was published.

Many times he started out in the early summer morning with a hunch of bread, a towel, and a book, and

After an interval of hard work, he issued in 1855 a little book, nothing, in face, more than a pamphlet

by a warning as to its strangeness, intimated in his characteristic manner that the writer of the book

years 1882-3 saw the production of the eighth edition of the poet's magnum opus , together with a book

of prose, Specimen Days and Collect , which consists of jottings from his diaries and note-books, of

The Ideas Expressed in Whitman's Books— Criticism of Bryant, Emerson, Holmes, Hawthorne, Lowell, Stedman

To write the life of a human being takes many a book, and after all the story is not told.

In my books, in my prose as well as my poetry, are many knots to untie.

I don't know why some men compare my book with the Bible.

Bucke's book. Friday , July 18 th . —Morning gloriously fine. In company with Mr.

"There was a little book of his I used to be very fond of, called 'Leaves of Grass.'

I've heard that some folks don't like him for some of the things in that book; but they needn't come

I asked him to write his name in my book, and I found it to be John Y.

He has quite ready for publication a little prose book, characteristic notes of outdoor observations,

He publishes and sells his books himself.

He sat in his den on the second floor, everything around him littered with books and papers.

a part of his own countrymen refuse to concede that he is a poet at all, and his earnings from his books

The floor was littered with books and papers almost blocking the approach to the great American singer

You're certainly good for 15 years more, and during that time you can keep me delighted with books of

like a playmate to his companions: "I won't say that I will write to you fellows; it's all inside the book

great chair by the window, in front of him a table heaped up at least to the height of four feet with books

letters, and cheap second-hand purchases; the floor was knee-deep in newspapers, manuscripts, and books

His theme was himself and his book, and he told the story not at all to me, as it seemed, but as though

vocabulary was a singular mixture of old words used with unexpected meanings (as when he spoke of his book

whimsicality in the matter of punctuation, and it was a source of annoyance to find the title of his latest book

Thoreau wrote, after an interview, followed by reading the second edition of his book, "he occasionally

These are the real burdens of his book, and they were the chief factors in his personal influence.

the subject of conversation might be, the impression he made upon me was always akin to that of his books

This trait appeared again and again in his conversation and letters, as it does in his book.

distinction as amounting to no more than a fuller realization in himself, and the expression in his book

The critics sneered at his volume of poems, some of the book agents embezzled its proceeds and Whitman

There is money in the book as well as genius, but upon the whole, situated as we are, it will not do

W HITMAN'S T HOUGHTS .— "A book must have a living vertebra to hold it together."

I think I combine that with the spiritualistic inseparately in my books and theories.

It seems to me I have never seen a book or newspaper article that conveyed to me the real individuality

Bucke's book?) Whitman— I thoroughly accept Dr. Bucke's book. Donaldson— So do I.

But where in Bucke's book is this incident— Whitman (interrupting)— I think Dr.

Well, I don't know—I accept and consider the book as a study.

Bucke's book. Voices—Bucke, Bucke. Dr. R. M.

"Leaves of Grass,"—this yet furiously fought about book, (it seems not settled yet whether it is a craze

HIS NEW BOOK.

I rubbed my eyes a little to see if this sunbeam were no illusion; but the solid sense of the book is

I did not know, until I last night saw the book advertised in a newspaper, that I could trust the name

His manners exemplify his book.

Bucke's book 1 "Walt Whitman," By R. Maurice Bucke, M.D.

I opposed the book all along, till Bucke, getting fairly out of patience, came one day and said, 'Now

wrote the account of my birthplace and antecedents which occupies the first twenty-four pages of the book

"I thought that there was a germinal idea in Bucke's book—the idea that 'Leaves of Grass' was above all

In that book you will find the soul is celebrated equally with the body, the mind equally with the heart

The six sentences may be a key to those who like me, but say they don't understand my book.

In my books, in my prose as well as my poetry are many knots to untie."

"I have read your books right through" I exclaimed beamingly as I entered. "Oy! oy?

some book in a rather dilapidated condition, as if somebody had willfully torn it.

S ADAKICHI : "Your books are still in the locked shelves."

—A good book should be like Roman cement, the older it grows, the better it sticks."

The book will comprise a number of poems not hitherto published, various prose articles, and will be

and of the most realistic description were made the subject of poems and form that section of the book

"My idea of a book? A book must have a living vertebra to hold it together. "My religion?

I think I combine that with the spiritualistic inseparably in my books and theory.

The book will comprise a number of poems not hitherto published, various prose articles, and will be

The scenes and sights I met with form that section of my book called 'Drum Taps.'

I think I combine the spiritualistic inseparably in my books and theory.

feel that I am near the end of my rope, but I am still writing and will shortly bring out another book

"The book made more of a stir than I had expected, although most of the criticism was unfavorable.

his essays entitled the 'New Spirit,' and Robert Louis Stevenson's rather faint-hearted one in his book

His talk was often of the actors and singers of his prime, of the books from which he had received the

One quaint method of reading which he indulged in would have driven the devout book-lover wild.

He would tear a book to pieces—literally shed its leaves, putting the loose sheets into the breast pocket

He gave me his book, very dull I remember. I think I shall give Mr. T. a copy of it.

He has a huge book of addresses of Whitmanites and book customers (probably several hundred names), but

Heaps of books, manuscripts, memoranda, scissorings, proof-sheets, pamphlets, newspapers, old and new

On the main table more books, some of them evidently old-timers, a Bible, several Shakspeares, a book

I know an old book-stand man who always speaks of him as Socrates.

"I am very fond of a well-printed book.

On the small stand between the two windows which looked out into the street were a number of books, among

exclaimed, when he first saw Whitman, "He looks like a man," and Emerson wrote Whitman when his first book

Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.

Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.

Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.

Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.