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Walt Whitman's "November Boughs," a story of the poet's life, has been published by Mr.

are not always sure you have heard aright, but somehow you feel that the very Distance is the truest part

The reader will always have his or her part to do, just as much as I have had mine.

Of the prose work which makes up the greater part of the volume, this is not the place to speak at length

In the prose part of November Boughs, the opening paper entitled "A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads

It consists for the most part of fugitive pieces in prose and in verse, some gathered from magazines,

And all this has been secured without compromise on Whitman's part.

But, for the most part, we see in these pages the same hopeful, cheery, affectionate, and great-souled

It is the hospital part of the drama that is principally here recalled, and of course but a small part

The rich involutions of Meredith's story of a present-day Othello contains another word on man's command

but a little humor, his poetry would have been less immoral; and we prefer to think that it is but a part

He tells us that he loves us and proves it by narrating as parts of his own being our inmost thoughts

Medea's cauldron is a reference to the story of Greek myth, Medea and Aeson, in which Jason (Aeson's

Medea's cauldron is a reference to the story of Greek myth, Medea and Aeson, in which Jason (Aeson's

Lincoln," "Autumn Rivulets," "Whispers of Heavenly Death," "From Noon to Starry Night," "Songs of Parting

Portrait; cloth; $2 00. Boston: James R. Osgood & Co.

The old story of the sculptor is not inapplicable here.

the beautiful, the true, the high, the noble, the best that is meant in the word "taste," is also a part

octillions of cubic leagues, do not hazard the span or make it im- patient impatient ; They are but parts

, any thing is but a part.

One volume. 12mo. (7 5/8 x 5 3/8 in.), 382 pp., cloth; price, $2. Philadelphia: Rees Welsh & Co.

A great part of Whitman's poems is perfectly sound and safe reading for even the tenderest of girlhood

settled upon; and amid the jeers and ridicule of the crowd has gone on adding stroke after stroke, part

after part, as serenely and good-naturedly as if the rest of mankind were clapping their hands in applause

The poet attempts to do justice to every part of a strong, healthy, unconventional man.

an equal proportionate justice to the moral and aesthetic qualities, and has not unduly exalted any part

O'Connor will delight the readers of the Galaxy with some charming stories.

Those who remember "The Ghost Story" in Putnam, "What Cheer" in Harpers', and his rich and affluent romance

E VERY ONE RECOLLECTS THE STORY of the Scotch dramatic author who, when Garrick assured him his genius

Walt Whitman is to give his readers from time to time inventories of the various component parts of some

Thus (in pages 300-2) we might for a brief moment fancy ourselves poring over a manual of surgery.

Sense, grammar, and metre are but very minor parts in the composition of poetry; but nevertheless, pace

upon and received with wonder, pity, love or dread, that object he became, And that object became part

of him for the day, or a certain part of the day, or for many years, or stretching cycles of years.

The early lilacs became part of this child; And grass, and white and red morning-glories, and white and

, and the beautiful curious liquid, And the water-plants with their graceful flat-heads—all became part

, The horizon's edge, the flying sea-crow, the fragrance of salt-marsh and shore-mud— These became part

Kennedy; Scarsdale; or, Lancashire and Yorkshire Borders Thirty Years Ago; Elkerton Rectory, being Part

Their authors for the most part belong to the foggy or to the flippant schools of book-makers; for the

2. Some punkins, perhaps.

He was a good fellow, free-mouthed, quick-tempered, not bad-looking, able to take his own part, witty

Nebuchadnezzar" in a list of Henry Clapp's bon mots in the New-York Saturday Press , May 26, 1860, p. 2.

Nebuchadnezzar" in a list of Henry Clapp's bon mots in the New-York Saturday Press, May 26, 1860, p. 2.

page: "I believe in the flesh, and the appetites, Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part

As an instance, we quote a part of a death-bed scene, which is as beautifully drawn as it is truthful

The publishers have done their part well.

It was to be the second part of an ultimately never completed three-part poem entitled The Recluse .

Samuel Butler (1612-1680) published a three-part satirical poem on Puritanism entitled Hudibras (1663

of Thayer & Eldrige, the publishers of the 1860–61 edition of Leaves of Grass , account at least in part

`We have just begun our part of the fighting.' Only three guns were in use.

Here is the story of the gallant seaman who rescued the passengers on the San Francisco:— "I understand

We need not repeat the story of Fotis's ill-starred lover and his magical transformation into an ass,

Buchanan Reade ∗ —a gracefully rhymed, imaginative story; or of another American production which, according

Bothwell: A Poem in six parts By W. Edmonstoune Aytoun, D. C.

"Great is life…and real and mystical…wherever and whoever, Great is death…sure as life holds all parts

together, death holds all parts together; Sure as the stars return again after they merge in the light

Good-bye, my fancy: 2 d annex to "Leaves of grass." D. McKay. por. 8º, $1.

One reads parts of it with a twinge of curiosity tempered with sadness.

W ALT W HITMAN 's Drum-Taps New York. 1865. 12mo. pp. 72. 2.

Esten Cooke is a Virginian, who early joined the rebellion, in which his State played so prominent a part

an English writer of the extremely popular 1861 novel, East Lynne , a sensational and melodramatic story

an English writer of the extremely popular 1861 novel, East Lynne, a sensational and melodramatic story

Whatever may be said for the genius that created the peculiar style of (and, for my part, I think a great

No dilletant democrat—a man who is art-and-part with the commonalty, and with immediate life—loves the

organs are marked by figures from 1 to 7, indicating their degrees of development, 1 meaning very small, 2

connoisseurs of his time, may obey the laws of his time, and achieve the intense and elaborated beauty of parts

The perfect poet cannot afford any special beauty of parts, or to limit himself by any laws less than

Meanwhile a strange voice parts others aside and demands for its owner that position that is only allowed

listener or beholder, to re-appear through him or her; and it offers the best way of making them a part

qualities, tumble pell-mell, exhaustless and copious, with what appear to be the same disregard of parts

Here, it is occupied for the most part with dreams of the middle ages, of the old knightly and religious

This tale is the eighth of nine short stories by Whitman that were published for the first time in The

When he republished this story in installments in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle on September 7–9, 1846, while

A tale of a Murderer escaped.) " He kept that title but dropped the subtitle when he published the story

Whitman did not include the number before the first section of this story when he published it in the

Toward the latter part of the same afternoon, Mr.

This tale is the eighth of nine short stories by Whitman that were published for the first time in The

When he republished this story in installments in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle on September 7–9, 1846, while

He kept that title but dropped the subtitle when he published the story again in the "Pieces in Early

For the publication history of the story under its earliest known title and under its later title, see

'"; Whitman did not include the number before the first section of this story when he published it in

However, this editorial is part of a series of texts that deal with a coherent theme that has been identified

However, this editorial is part of a series of texts that deal with a coherent theme that has been identified

PatrickMcGuire"Reuben's Last Wish" (1841)"Reuben's Last Wish" (1841)This short story was published on

This temperance story is openly didactic.

Whitman announces in the first paragraph that the story "may haply teach a moral and plant a seed of

The story is told by a narrator who heard it directly from Frank Slade at a temperance meeting.

the prose is almost precious at times.While not as cruel as the many unhappy fathers in Whitman's stories

I F the reader supposes that I am going to tell a story full of plot, interest, and excitement, let him

The Washington temperance societies, part of the Washingtonian temperance movement, were popular in New

Whitman also wrote several other short stories with temperance themes, including " Wild Frank's Return

," " The Reformed ," " The Child's Champion ," " The Love of the Four Students ," and " Dumb Kate.

Whitman reused this paragraph, with minor revisions, at the conclusion of Mike Marchion's story in "

Whitman also wrote several other short stories with temperance themes, including "Wild Frank's Return

," "The Reformed," "The Child's Champion," "The Love of the Four Students," and "Dumb Kate.

ashiness, and the moisture on the brow, and the film over the eye balls," in "The Reformed," a short story

"; Whitman reused this paragraph, with minor revisions, at the conclusion of Mike Marchion's story in

Dear Friend I once promised to write you & as often as convient So far I have fullfulled my part.

Farwell's other correspondence with Whitman see April 30, 1864, May 5, 1864, June 16, 1864, October 2,

Grier, ed., Notes and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1961–84], 2:

Farwell's other correspondence with Whitman see April 30, 1864, June 8, 1864, June 16, 1864, October 2,

For Farwell's other correspondence with Whitman see May 5, 1864, June 8, 1864, June 16, 1864, October 2,

this from one who would like to see you Indeed A Comrad Ruben Farwell Reuben Farwell to Walt Whitman, 2

Farwell's other correspondence with Whitman see April 30, 1864, May 5, 1864, June 8, 1864, October 2,

sent 2 papers Aug 20, 1875 Aug 16 th 1875 Dear Uncle Walt I received your Postal Card. but I was away

other correspondence with Whitman see April 30, 1864, May 5, 1864, June 8, 1864, June 16, 1864, October 2,

Julian B.Freund"Return of the Heroes, The" (1867)"Return of the Heroes, The" (1867)As part of the cluster

miracle of nature found in God's "calm annual drama" as life eternally springs from death (section 2)