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Some of these are drawn from periodicals and some from books.

Bought a book. He read me a new poem, intoning it, not very distinctly.

McKay, an enterprising Scot, had undertaken to publish Walt's books after the attorney-general of Massachusetts

On another occasion he criticized Ruskin quite in the manner of one who had read widely in Ruskin's books

This, he told me, had been his favorite book in the earlier days, and I suppose that Scott's versification

might casually refer to "Leaves of Grass," but when the student went to the library to consult the book

sat by the right-hand window and you at the left, with the little table covered with half a dozen books

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."

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

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.

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.

Speaking about some book belonging to Walt said he hoped it was not lost, and then laughed heartily and

looked significantly at the litter of papers and books on the floor described in Dr.

Lifting up a volume of Scott's poems near him he held it towards me, saying:— "Wallace, here is a book

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.

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

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.

I afterwards learned that for over two years no books magazines or manuscripts had been removed from

Once I asked him what he would think of me when I told him that I had never heard of his book until I

He did this by having a pillow and a book placed before him.

He could no longer hold the book, and it looked as though his attempt must fail.

Scott's Quentin Durward was a book that he especially liked, and he gave a copy of it to Mr.

would give brief but careful and accurate digests of new books without interjecting any opinions, so

that a busy man need not read all of the author, but could get gist of the book, scientific, historical

In discussing the manner in which this book was written, Whitman said that very much of it was written

of the Interior, dismissed Whitman for the offense of having written Leaves of Grass , an obscene 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

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.

As the afternoon waned, and he spoke of leaving us, somebody placed a book before the face of the clock

The book he knew best was the Bible, the prophetical parts of which stirred in him a vague desire to

Along with his pail he usually carried a book, between which and his solitary meal he would divide his

Once the book chanced to be a volume of Emerson; and from that time he took with him no other writer.

and discovering that the grave and silent man at a certain desk was the author of a reprehensible book

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

Most of our meetings here were held for recreation and pleasure, but nevertheless, new books, magazine

This little book has ever since remained unopened, until, while penning this article, it was referred

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.

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."

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.

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

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.

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

bed, very little furniture besides, a fire in a stove, on the floor a pile of wood, some stacks of books

gracious, and cordial, talked of his illness and of the visits he had had, and showed us some French books

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

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.

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

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."

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 sum total of my life philosophy as I have tried to live it and as I have tried to put it in my books

enough to hold an inkstand but not big enough to use as a desk, for when the poet wrote his name in a book

He would dive into the enormous pile of newspapers at any angle, and always fish out the book or the

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

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

BY ALMA CALDER JOHNSTON M Y ACQUAINTANCE with Walt Whitman began in 1874, when his book, Leaves of Grass

Newspapers from which extracts had been cut, books reviewed, and to be reviewed, lay everywhere.

nothing better than the best Womanhood," I was relieved to have him remark smilingly, as he handed the book

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.

down the "Leaves of Grass" from upstairs, and we read together some of the lines most in mind, the book

Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.

Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.

there; how, sitting before a fire of hickory logs in his well-appointed study, surrounded by countless books

am overjoyed at the latest news I have from Edwin Arnold, at Tokio Tokyo , in Japan, that his new book

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.

Of course I do read some newspapers, some books and some magazines, but I am not sufficiently well informed

The publishers get up their books in better style than ever before.

I thought so as I looked at the great table piled high with books and papers, at the hard bed and uninviting

We talked of "Leaves of Grass," the book which secured Whitman's discharge from the interior department

sun, the impalpable air— for life, mere life, * * * * * * For beings, groups, love, deeds, words, books

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

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

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.

"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

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

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.