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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. . . .

"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.

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.

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

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.

hours' talk with him alone, to-day today ,—interrupted only by the coming of a man to bring him a few books

In the room where I found Whitman, a few books were to be seen in a book-case bookcase , and two remarkable

In these years of illness and enforced quiet, he has much considered and revised his books, and now he

Over there in the corner is a pile of my books, for which I have just received an order from England.

William Blake was completed by his wife, who wrote a preface, which is said to be the best part of the book

he rides again atop of the Broadway omnibuses and Fraternizes with drivers and boatmen—He has a New Book

At present he has a new book of prose and poetry, partially completed, to be called " Far and Near at

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

"Better than twenty years ago, when you were in Boston getting some book printed?"

Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University; gaps were filled by reference to a digital

Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University; gaps were filled by reference to a digital

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

He publishes and sells his books himself.

leading English poets of all time, closes his notice of Longfellow, the only American represented in the book

to destroy some of my own pretty things, but I have rigidly excluded everything of the kind from my books

I opened at the close of one of the first books of the Evangelists, and read the chapters describing

some of which he has read five or six times), George Sand, Shakespeare, Homer, and "that best of all books

to destroy some of my own pretty things, but I have rigidly excluded everything of the kind from my books

Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.

Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.

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.

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."

Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.

Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.

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

Prof Morris's Philosophical Series—Prof Watson on Kant—Dr Harris and His Quarterly—Goldwin Smith—Walt

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

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

He also spoke of the Oxford boys taking the book with them and reading it in their rambles.

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

Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.

Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.

I have known that Cleveland is a reader and admirer of my books, but I really don't know anything at

Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.

Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.

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

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.

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.

The floor and table were still littered with books and papers, and the evening mail was still unopened

was alluding to the unknown, immeasurable public which seemed to engulph immense cheap editions of books

Of books there were many, and, like the pictures, they were scattered everywhere around the room; on

My publisher has only sent me $80 as profits on my books for over a year.

"That is a book which is very well known," said the lady visitor, in a low voice from her dark corner

The edition was 1,000 copies—the ordinary edition of new books in those days.

Books tire me nowadays.

thought "The Prophet of Great Smoky Mountain," by Miss Murfree an exceptionally strong and interesting book

Another day the Poet gave me these verses, written by him in pencil on the fly-leaf flyleaf of a book

'Pretty well, it is not a book that I should recommend to any but an American—there is no mincing matters

George Eliot was not a favourite with the Poet; we persuaded him to read Romola — "The book is like mosaic

He is John Burroughs, who paints nature in books as few men are able to do.

plain brass-mounted pencil and wrote his name on a card, using T HE E VENING S UN reporter's note book

"Please let your pencil wander over on a page of that book with another autograph," asked the reporter

He has written some successful books, and started out in literature while he was writing in the Surrogate's

On the floor were strewn, with the genuine abandon of carelessness books, magazines, newspaper clippings

We found the famous Colonel in his den amid a chaos of books, pictures, Indian curiosities and weapons

This was written by the man whose book the sapient censors of the Hub's morals in the great Boston Public

morning sunlight, which streamed upon a carpet of waste paper—letters, journals, pamphlets, story books

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.

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.

I was then ushered into his bedroom, where I found him seated amid a litter of books, manuscripts, and

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

familiar gray suit, lame, but still capable of moving about, surrounded by the disordered order of his books

and emitting the pungent odors of burning wood; an undraped bed, a table covered with a litter of books

We glanced hastily at some letters and many presentation copies of books with their authors' autographs

Is the latter's little book of 1867 worth nothing, or is it of no importance that William D.

I then observed that he held a small parcel of thin quarto-sized books under his right arm.

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.

All I have felt the imperative conviction to say I have already printed in my books of poems or prose

"At least here I am surrounded by my books, and the roses you see my friends send me daily.

No profane hand dares to touch a manuscript or card, book or newspaper in this inner sanctuary and home

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.

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