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—Three beautiful books lie before us, each enticing in exterior, bound in characteristically fitting

He describes how he was seriously ill and paralyzed after the war, and had his books printed during a

My chief book, unrhym'd and unmetrical (it has taken thirty years, peace and war, "a borning"), has its

The floor, three quarters of it with an ingrain carpet, is half cover'd by a deep litter of books, papers

There are all around many books, some quite handsome editions, some half cover'd by dust, some within

Another is a little Leaves of Grass , latest date, six portraits, morocco bound, in pocket-book form.

by 20 low-ceiling'd room something like a big old ship's cabin," in literary disorder of papers and books

His latest book does not challenge criticism; it is evidently the work of a mind sorely diseased, worn

There is nothing of any value whatever in this book.

'For Queen Victoria's Birthday,' 'The Pallid Wreath' and 'Unassail'd Renown'; but the bulk of the book—its

Whitman's beliefs come out singularly strong and triumphant here and there among the creed-leaves of the book

Indeed, the whole book is a book of 'last words' from dying lips sealing a life that has been blameless

Several books of considerable interest have been published this month, but there is no one book which

A very different book is the latest collection of the poems of Walt Whitman, entitled "Good-bye, My Fancy

The book is published as a memorial of war times.

Of the English books, that which bears most closely upon current affairs is Harold Frederic's volume

His book on "The Young Emperor" is thoroughly characteristic.

One may not care for this or that so-called poem—think it no poem, for that matter; but take his book

To leave preface just at the end and come to the book—most welcome is this 'Second Annex.'

I am sorry the book is not now before me, that I may refresh myself with lines that it would also be

A MELANCHOLY BOOK. GOOD-BYE, MY FANCY. An Annex to Leaves of Grass By Walt Whitman. 8vo, pp. 66.

lucubrations, and apparently the general public have not fatigued his publisher with orders for his books

of Grass," which he does not like to think will be relegated to the limbo of unused or unreadable books

Our Eminent Visitors, The Bible as Poetry, Burns as Poet and Person, Tennyson, Shakespeare, English Books

The book consists of 140 pp., clear but compact print, prose, and poetry; and to readers of Leaves of

poetical pieces, mostly short, under the general heading of Sands at Seventy ; and the remainder of the book

The book is to be had for a dollar and a quarter (about 5s.) from David McKay, publisher, Philadelphia

WALT WHITMAN'S BOOK A Striking Collection of Essays and Poems—A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads.

identified with place and date, in a far more candid and comprehensive sense than any hitherto poem or book

In another place the feeling of pride leads to this exclamation: "My Book and I—what a period we have

Whitman referred to Rossetti's edition as a "horrible dismemberment of my book" in his August 12, 1871

For more information about McKay, see Joel Myerson, " McKay, David (1860–1918) Walt Whitman's Book

Whitman referred to Rossetti's edition as a "horrible dismemberment of my book" in his August 12, 1871

My book ought to emanate buoyancy and gladness legitimately enough, for it was grown out of those elements

Two prose pieces which appeared there under the titles "My Book and I" and "How I made a Book" are now

on Burns as Poet and Person, and on Tennyson, also reappear; but most of the other contents of the book

Elias Hicks's—not argumentative or intellectual, but so penetrating—so different from anything in the books

November Boughs" and Estimates of Its Distinguished Author—The Poet's Grounds for "Leaves of Grass"—Books

His very best work, to me, is contained in the books of 'The Idyls of the King,' and all that has grown

WALT WHITMAN calls his latest book November Boughs , and in more ways than one it testifies and it appeals

Apart from the social import of his first book ("without yielding an inch, the working-man and working-woman

the reader that these are as innocent as so many sprays of apple blossom, and that he may take the book

The book is well named : it is meditative and reminiscent, with a sober fragrance in it like the scent

One other book from America.

His last book, November Boughs as he calls it, published in the winter of the old man's life, reveals

Is this true of Walt Whitman's book?

Succulence, marrow, poetic feeling course through the book exultantly.

The most remarkable part of the book is its first heart-beat: 'A Backward Glance o'er Travel'd Roads,

The bulk of the book will prove tedious to all except his admirers, and nothing that he might write will

The book has a good portrait of Whitman taken in his seventieth year. [Philadelphia: David McKay.

WHITMAN'S COMPLETE WORKS A Fine "Personally Handled" Edition of the Poet, With Autograph—A Volume That Book

The complete edition of Walt Whitman's works, just issued by the poet himself in one volume, is a book

Authenticated and Personal Book (Handled by W. W.) Portraits from Life. Autograph.

Seems to me I may dare to claim a deep native tap root for the book, too, in some sort.

I am now uttering "'November Boughs' and printing this book in my 70th year.

The author's later verse makes the second division of the book, and is gathered under the title, "Sands

The latter half of the book consists of papers of varying length on literary, personal, and other themes

A portrait of the author taken from life in his seventieth year is the frontispiece of the book, and

A NEW BOOK BY MR. WHITMAN. A new book has just come to us from America, from Mr. Walt Whitman.

The book opens with an article of thirteen pages, called "A Backward Glance o'er Travel'd Roads."

Probably by the time this notice is in print the book will be in the hands of the English publishers,

and even absorbing interest there is in store for those, who shall by-and-bye possess and read the book

A New Book By Mr. Whitman

CONCERNING OLD AND NEW BOOKS, With a Hint at the Wisdom of Times and Seasons. [Written by Mrs.

It is a curious paradox that while books are certainly indispensable to our modern life, their chief

The book which starts no echo is without meaning to us.

Concerning Old and New Books

This book is as varied in contents as its author's own mind.

Everything in this book is interesting, though the portion which will probably be most closely read is

identified with place and date, in a far more candid and comprehensive sense than any hitherto poem or book

Leaves of Grass," let the author speak further:— I should say it were useless to attempt reading the book

In this book the answer is written simply enough:— I say the profoundest service that poems or any other

Altogether, the book is made up of gleanings and gatherings, the work of one who stands near the final

The examples in this volume are marked by characteristics with which those in his previous books made

The prose papers include a long one, placed first in the book, (the poetry follows it), entitled "A Backward

This is a very important addition to the list of Whitman's books.

The design of the book is evidently to round out and comment upon his other works and to add a few more

It is an admirable book for those to read who wish to know Whitman, to discover how calm, patient and

"So here I sit gossiping in the early candle-light of old age—I and my book—casting backward glances

business point of view, 'Leaves of Grass' has been worse than a failure; that public criticism on the book

In calculating the decision of the world upon his book, he says William O'Connor and Dr.

Whitman still feels the wounds made by the "marked anger and contempt" with which his book was received

The verse, "Sands at Seventy," occupies only a few pages of the book.

"Leaves of Grass," the book which first made Whitman a public character, was published in 1855, and after

second-hand from some one else; custom and convention play so large a part in the making of modern books

Such being the case a book which, like "Leaves of Grass," is an unmistakably sincere expression of human

Whitman's books have had must be accounted for.

admirers would have us believe, and having made that admission, pro forma, proceed to consider why his books

sympathy; and, accordingly, in three separate articles in this volume, he discourses of himself and his book

The book is valuable precisely because it is a faithful and self-willed record.

From a book of 107 pages it has developed into the compact work of to-day.

His life and his book are so interwoven, that it is premature to write "finis" to the latter until the

The solid sense of the book is a sober certainty.

Few if any copies of the book were sold.

Whitman, like his book, is strong. It is himself that speaks, not the echo of another.

.; American writer (1825–1878) who wrote for newspapers, travel books, novels, poetry, and critical essays

Whitman's books have been expensive and scarce.

some other newspaper; his opinion of sundry great men whom he has known personally or through their books

They will be delighted to learn that he thought once of calling his book "Cedar Plums like," and will

—anything from art, books, sermons, or from science, old or new.

which he says that "not for his merely literary merit (though that was great), not as a 'maker of books

. ∗ The book is not intended for the confirmed admirers of Whitman, for they will be satisfied with nothing

There are even certain fellows of the baser sort whose trade consists in lending out willfully obscene books

Rhys' book, there is no hope that it will benefit them.

Coming now to the book itself we find something to condemn and something, also, to praise.

Another omission which we can hardly approve is The Singer in Prison , but after all, something had to

It contained several selections from the book which induced a feeling of utter bewilderment.

of indiscriminate eulogy, or has confined itself to a condemnation of the glaring vulgarity of the book

There is still considerable curiosity about him and his book, and some sort of settled opinion should

Has the author ever stated in intelligible English the purpose of his book?

I N a letter dated Concord, 6th May, 1856, Emerson wrote to Carlyle:—'One book, last summer, came out

terrible eyes and buffalo strength, and was indisputably American, which I thought to send you, but the book

The book referred to was a copy of the singular looking thin quarto volume of little more than a hundred

The solid sense of the book is a sober certainty.

Thoreau wrote of the book in a similar, if more guarded, strain.

Ruskin, to mention no others, should be found quoted in the advertisement of his book has long puzzled

Part of the present prose has appeared before in his books, part in the magazines, and part in the newspapers

words, "I greet you at the beginning of a great career," and have flaunted them upon the cover of his book

But, in the first place, Whitman is ignorant: this book, with its scrawled title-age, furnishes abundant

Book of Ezekiel 2:1. The edition of Messrs.

Book of Ezekiel 2:1.; The edition of Messrs.

If so, we are not ripe for it, for it is, to us, the one great drawback to the book.

Walt Whitman's New Book. * T HERE is a word which is a great favorite of Mr.

A reader of palms who reads his books will assert beforehand that he has broad, long and thick hands,

New York Walt Whitman's New Book

The whole of Walt Whitman's prose writing is included in this closely printed book.

The new book is certainly not wanting in versatility.

At the end of the book there is a series of "notes left over," and there are reprinted some of the author's

Whitman's prose manner—the manner which may be described as his style—that is found to be, throughout this book

strong, practical writing in "Democratic Vistas," though the majority of persons who take up this book

Whitman's 'Specimen Days and Collect' is a book to be picked up at an odd moment and read in instalments

Here at last is a book by Walt Whitman, in whose pages no mawkish morality and squinting prudery can

It is not an easy book to characterize, but it is a book which every lover of our literature will prize

must be thankful, though we may mildly complain that Whitman's other prose works, consisting of two books—one

Even in America, says a personal friend of the author, these books can hardly be said to have been published

This does not mean that his books have not been bought and read: indeed, the number of copies sold of

extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed' was Emerson's verdict on the book

This book, with its Carlylian eloquence and anti-Carlylian optimism, is not more remarkable on account

Less a man of books, more a man of men,—less a recluse, more a man of the world,—than either Carlyle

certainly is—a man of vast reading, fulfilled more than most students with what is to be had from books

a certain breadth of historic grandeur, of peace or war, far surpassing all the vaunted samples of book-heroes

dysentery, inflammations, and blackest and loathsomest of all, the dead and living burial-pits, the prison

(not Dante's pictured hell, and all its woes, its degradations, filthy torments, excell'd those prisons

but very little—not only summer but all seasons—not only days but nights—some literary meditations—books

—or may-be in sick room or prison—to serve as cooling breeze, or Nature's aroma, to some fever'd mouth

Roden Berkeley Wriothesley Noel (1834-1894) was an English poet; his best-known book of verse was A Little

.; Roden Berkeley Wriothesley Noel (1834-1894) was an English poet; his best-known book of verse was

Many are the books I have read and recommended to the world of seekers for knowledge, truth and wisdom

This wonderful book is "Leaves of Grass!"

I feel that I can not do better justice to the book than to give an extract from a lecture on it delivered

"Leaves of Grass" I heard him give myself, while I was in Boston, and it determined me to buy the book

I shall be glad to fill orders for this book of books.

The book is virile. In many places it has the smell of damp loam or of new-mown grass.

The book is unobjectionable so far as we have noticed, and there is not a little that can be said in

The next sixty pages of the book are devoted to reminiscences of the Civil War, gathered in the Union

finally, a few concluding paragraphs under the forcible heading "The real war will never get into the books

Many pages of this book might be transferred to by simply a rearrangement of lines.

Walt Whitman's "Specimen Days and Collect" is not, as its name might be supposed to imply, a book of

miscellaneous gathering of his prose writings, early attempts, bits of letters, extracts from note-books

This book is in two parts; the first part is devoted principally to the author's experience in Washington

his departure from his previous customs, as depicted in the horrible juvenilities in the back of the book

It is a pity the book was disfigured with them.

Walt Whitman's new book, "Specimen Days and Collect" is a literary curiosity made up of extracts from

fragments of essays and correspondence; scraps written for newspapers; samples from his commonplace book

Added to this, in a second part of the book, are "Democratic Vistas," the long essay written for one

the doubting and conditional phrases, "I shall send out the most wayward, spontaneous, fragmentary book

The book is not even divided into chapters.

splendid thoughts. the following are fair specimens of good and of bad: No formal general's report nor book

could select enough passages from the two bundles of scraps which he calls volumes to make a small book

WHITMAN'S NEW BOOK. The Prose Writings of the "Good Gray Poet." A Twin Volume to "Leaves of Grass."

Walt Whitman's new book, with the odd, but thoroughly characteristic and descriptive title, "Specimen

Had "Leaves of Grass" never been written this book alone would be enough to establish the author's fame

Indeed, too much stress cannot be laid upon this phase of the book.

Whitman's New Book

this fashion in the Philadelphia Press:— "'Leaves of Grass,' by Walt Whitman, is not an agricultural book