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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

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Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.

Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.

Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.

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

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Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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."

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

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

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

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

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

"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

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

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Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.

Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.

Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.

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

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

He publishes and sells his books himself.

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

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.

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Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.

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

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

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Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

"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

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.

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