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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

. ∗ 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

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.

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

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

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

T HERE is something wholesome, fresh, invigorating, in this book, and we like it.

The book is of “healthy” tone and expression sometimes, but where is the harm?

Influence is of no account; but a few objectionable phrases ought to burn a book.

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

for stuffed crocodiles, and readers of romance pronounced the "Arabian Nights" the most wonderful of books

But the leading principle of the book, where the sense is intelligible, appears to be the praise of muscle

It would be impossible to transcribe from any part of the book without offending common sense, and it

The very get-up of the book, with its rough bark-like binding, only bears out the author's idea of ruggedness

and around Boston were startled by the tidings that Emerson—whose incredulity concerning American books

"On his table had been laid one day a queerly shaped book, entitled 'Leaves of Grass.

"The Concord philosopher's feelings on perusing this book were expressed in a private letter to its author

He famously remaked, "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book, or goes to an American

He famously remaked, "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book, or goes to an American

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

when it became the pleasing duty of that model judge to administer the last rites of the law to a prisoner

of the roughs, a kosmos, Disorderly, fleshy, sensual, &c. was the "poet of pantheism," and that the book

of Spinoza, perfectly indifferent with regard to the matter that enters into the composition of his book

Walt Whitman's New Book. From Our Special Correspondent. B OSTON , Tuesday, November 8. . . .

This new volume of Whitman's contains philosophy, antiquities and history all in one, and is the book

John Keats, Hyperion , Book II. Walt Whitman's New Book

.; John Keats, Hyperion, Book II.

the latter kind by any means few; although, undoubtedly, the predominating qualities throughout the book

A better printed book, coming even from Boston, we have not seen in a good while.

seen Walt Whitman to our knowledge; nor do we know anything of him further than we learn from his 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.

Rough, whose name is W ALT W HITMAN , and who calls himself a "Kosmos," has been publishing a mad book

The poem of the book is considered to be "A Word out of the Sea," which "conclusively testifies that

There was not, apparently, a single book in the room.

In reply to my expression of a desire to see his books, he declared that he had very few.

The books he seemed to love best, were the Bible, Homer, and Shakespeare; these he owned, and probably

beastiality we remember ever to have seen in print; a beastiality which is the most prominent feature of the book

The book is, in many respects abominable; in many respects the maddest folly and the merest balderdash

Stimson, the New York Day Book had a distinct proslavery agenda and billed itself as the "White Man's

publishers of the 1860–61 edition of Leaves of Grass , account at least in part for the tone of the Day Book

Stimson, the New York Day Book had a distinct proslavery agenda and billed itself as the "White Man's

publishers of the 1860–61 edition of Leaves of Grass, account at least in part for the tone of the Day Book's

It is hard to criticise the book of a friend.

This book, like Leaves of Grass, consists in disjointed exclamations with no attempt at either rhyme

season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school, or church, or in any book

"The entire book" ( ) he declares to be "the poem of the natural man, not of the merely physical, still

However familiar with the future, he is likely to remain a sealed book to the present.

—which he has not learned in any school, at second hand, or gathered from books—or torn from parchment

And here, after so long a lapse of time,—hundreds and thousands of highly bepraised books, in the mean

day by day, and will still continue to follow them until men cease to be fools—here we say is this book

We find many things new and old in this book; the old, welcome as the familiar faces of the old Gods

And for the claims of this book to be called a book of poems, we will venture to say that there is more

title is well enough chosen, for it is odd, and it bears no clear relation to the contents of his book

, and in this oddness and apparent incoherency it resembles much in the book.

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.

They have been vaunted extravagantly by a band of extravagant disciples; and the possessors of the books

Now that they are thrust into our faces at the book stalls there must be a reexamination of the myth

NEW BOOKS.

Look here, Walt Whitman, what made you write this book, these Leaves of Grass, full of good thoughts,

You’ve made a book, it can’t be rubbed out for it is a fact.

New Books

"No established publishing house will publish his books.

OUR BOOK TABLE LEAVES OF GRASS. Brooklyn, New York, 1856.

Some of these ‘leaves-droppings’ will be found at the end of the book, together with the correspondence

looking cautiously to see how the rest behave, dress, write, talk, love—pressing the noses of dead books

Our Book Table

Whitman may be a man of some talent indeed, portions of his book would indicate something of the kind

"The New Testament so called, which is usually bound up in the book called the Bible, comprehends no

The books from which we have made our extracts are easily accessible to all, and we respectfully recommend

the Light in myself–this is all-sufficient for my direction and government; I "have no need to go to books

from William Penn's "Guide Mistaken, and Temporizing Rebuked, or a brief reply to Jonathan Clapham's book

Talfourd, who defended the rebels, and who was so irritated at the judge's undue leaning against the prisoners

He ran a short career of knavery, profligacy, and crimes, which led him into a prison, and there he died

'Tis a vile thing to be pestered in sleep with all the books in the day I have been reading jostled together

He was soon at his home at Keswick again, in the midst of his books, &c.

The satirical Raleigh 1552 + 1618 Of Raleigh—his History of the World—written while in prison—He saw

ruling class; a precedent for it, and an eloquent defence of the criminals, are to be found in the books

from which a vast majority of the world obtain their knowledge of Roman history,—books which cause our

of Etruria, the latter having endured more than four centuries at the time of the discovery of his books

The ' History of Literature,' by Frederick Schlegel, is one of the most captivating of books, and can

Lieutenant Lynch's book must be pronounced of great value, not only for the additions which it makes

Our only regret is, that the author's avowed anxiety to occupy the book-market has prevented him from

As for the other book, what we have already said, we say once more:—It is a bushel of chaff, from which

And Sir Walter Raleigh, looking from the window of his prison in the Tower, and witnessing a quarrel

love Fall, crumbling, at a breath; And sick at last with that great sorrow's shock, As some poor prisoner

Accordingly, he takes up the book, and at first all goes on swimmingly.

Chamberlains' keys; a pile of sacks; Books of full blood-descents in packs; Dog-chains and sword-chains

Receipts for tax, toll, christening, wedding and funeral; Passports and wander-books, great and small

There are many things in this part of the book, especially under Italian poetry, which we should be glad

talk about, and a certain way of telling his story, we do not see why his should not be a "proper book

They began to act upon the imagination and command the belief of many educated people—for his books were

The Swedenborgian books form a library by no means inconsiderable.

One of his books—a goodly volume published by the society aforesaid—is entitled.

In the spiritual world there are cities, palaces, houses, books, and writings, trades and merchandizes

Although no Egyptian book, or trace of any book, exists.

Assyrian literature and Egyptian the literature of Egypt and Hindostan — many, many thousand years since, Books

—Vast libraries existed; Cheap copies of these books circulated among the commonality or were eligible

The oldest books in the world are in Hebrew, the next oldest in Greek, and the next oldest in Latin.

Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.

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

Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.

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