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The second copy of book & my lending one, has come safe—too—and the card that told of your attack of

at my own dumbness—but tied to as many hours a day writing as I could possibly manage, at my little book

we neglected to protest, on the very threshold of the subject, against the coarse filthiness of the book

We are not sure that the book is not amenable to the laws against sending obscene literature through

The plea that the book is "literature" does not excuse such unmitigated and indefensible nastiness as

To write such a book and send it forth to the world with a complacent smirk required great courage—or

this volume: I too haughty Shade also sing war, and a longer and greater one than any, Waged in my book

which fell dead from the press before he betook himself to the composition of his great work, his only book

If his book had had a motto it should have been, "Nihil humani a me alienum puto."

This book is an American classic. [Leaves of Grass By Walt Whitman. Philadelphia, Rees, Welsh & Co.

The "fleshly" pieces, of which so much has been said, and which endangered the circulation of the book

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.

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

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

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

It is the title of a book that has been challenged by the conservers of public morals as unfit to be

As usual in such cases, the reaction increased the demand for the book to such an extent that several

The book is full of such salt-sea breezes of expression as these: O the joy of a manly selfhood!

And is there nothing in the book to condemn?

A morning glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."

If they can see nothing in this book except indecency and bombastic truisms, the inference must be that

tedious and helpless prose, leaves our vision clear for the occasional glimpses of beauty that the book

much purer than the stained and distorted reflection of its animalism in Leaves of Grass, that the book

The review contains discussions of recent books by D. G.

The review contains discussions of recent books by D. G.

W is in himself—and in his book, which is himself—the soul of the new and generous continent.

arise, vigorous, wholesome, pure, breezy as the praries and lofty as the Sierras, we welcome W and his book

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

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

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 "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

imagination which would gloat over Whitman's virile lines would find rot to feed on in the best of books

Here, let it be said, however, that Leaves of Grass, as it stands, is not a book for girls or children

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

The book has nearly four hundred pages of close print.

One object of the book is to inspire the reader with a desire to enlist in this limited and peripatetic

The corruption exposed in this book would "infect to the North Star."

The object of the book is to deify impulse and lawlessness.

Sold at the book stores.

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

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

Some steps should be at once taken for the republication of your book, from the same plates, in the same

not believe a jury could be found in Massachusetts to send the publisher of "Leaves of Grass" to prison

If I had the means, I would gladly, with your permission, put your book on the market advertised as the

If you will find parties to furnish the means for republication from your plates, advertising the book

, and defending it in court, I will become the responsible publisher, and go to prison if necessary.

I think your last book throws more light on you & your work than anything yet published.

Wendell Phillips, turning the pages of the book, remarked, "Here seem to be all sorts of leaves except

On the reverse the reader was informed that the book had been duly "Entered according to act of Congress

The book was not "published" in the official sense.

The book, however, was misunderstood, as was to have been expected. Mr.

Of indecency, of essential grossness, there is in the book really nothing.

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

It would be a happy thing if we could have you here for a while, where you would find a bedroom, books

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 masses whom Whitman celebrates and extols, have barely an acquaintance or none at all with his books

But his public has been, unfortunately, a narrow circle, and his books have not, therefore, been tested

This book is the life work, the first and final word, of Walt Whitman.

On the whole, we have here a poet who has frankly tried less to write a book than to find voice for a

The book—judged by the standard of all great books—falls far below greatness.

Walt Whitman by Potter and Co., 1882 George C.

Potter, who took an early 1870s photograph of Whitman in Washington, had moved to Philadelphia by this

One day Horace Traubel saw one of these three photos in a glass case in front of the Potter and Co. studio

The Potter picture is startling but it is not good—it don't hit me'" (Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman

Potter, see "Notes on Whitman's Photographers."

Walt Whitman by Potter and Co., 1882 George C.

Potter, who took an early 1870s photograph of Whitman in Washington, had moved to Philadelphia by this

One day Horace Traubel saw one of these three photos in a glass case in front of the Potter and Co. studio

The Potter picture is startling but it is not good—it don't hit me'" (Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman

Potter, see "Notes on Whitman's Photographers."

Officials I send you one to day enclosed in a new book that I have just published.

Elsewhere, there is some philosophy in the book; there are pages of force and rough beauty; there is

The book is not the creation of a literary quack.

We hold much of his book to be infamous according to the universal code of ethics; and contrary to all

one eye which squints at the new comer newcomer , who is busy trying to find his place in the prayer book

Oc 20 th 1882 Dear Walt Your new book "Specimen days" came to hand this morning Mother is delighted with

So glad to hear of your health & spirits being so good, and that your book too has gone off so admirably

In as much as calls for the book in small numbers are coming to us from day to day and under the circumstances

We do not know whether the book would appeal to us commercially, but we of course prefer not to look

Up to the present time the royalty due to you on the sales of the book amounts to $405.50.

have cost us about $475. including the steel portrait, and we have on hand about 225 copies of the book

We are not at present informed what portions of the book are objected to.

We are given to understand that if certain parts of the book should be withdrawn its further circulation

Osgood and Company, Gentlemen; Our attention has been officially directed to a certain book entitled

We are of the opinion that this book is such a book as brings it within the provisions of the Public

The argument is as follows; if there is a case against the book in its existing form it is not removed

do not attempt to express an opinion on the point of whether there is a case against the original book

But we certainly do think that if there such a case it would lie with almost equal force against the book

the official authorities there seems no alternative for us but to decline to further circulate the book

I have not seen any notices of the book yet.

I have just recd received an English book— Familiar Studies of men & books —by Stevenson with an essay

Your prose book too is a happy thought.

I have his last book of poems & I cannot find one healthful poetic throb in it.

No doubt we could beat them to tatters, & make a big strike for the book Write & ask him if he will fight

Drop me a line how & where you are & how the battle of the book goes on.

I am a student at the above institution and while studying my text books I have also studied the times

Though a stranger to you, in your Book you have been my friend, and so I salute you.

, could you come; and that you would also be delighted, the sweet and beautiful Philosophy of your Book

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

OLD BOOKS BOUGHT.

Replying to your favor of 20th, The terms regarding "Leaves of Grass" are satisfactory, we publishing the books

Did you get from HM&Co the dies used by them for stamping cover of the book?

OLD BOOKS BOUGHT.

It would be our aim (if having control of the book) to put it before the trade at once , so that every

bookseller might know, before the fall trade opens, that the book can be had regularly, this would of

OLD BOOKS BOUGHT.

day while in the store, that you had not, as yet, made arrangements for another publisher, for your book