Contemporary Notices and Reviews of 
Walden; or, Life in the Woods
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"Literary Notices"
Burlington Sentinel [Vermont] (17 August 1854):  p. 3, col. 1

Walden; or, Life in the Woods. By Henry D. Thoreau. Author of "A week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers."—Boston: Ticknor & Fields.

This is altogether a very remarkable book, and will attract much attention. It is devoted to a detailed account of the most interesting features of the life of a hermit, "in the woods;" and is at once scholarly, philosophical, agricultural, statistical, satirical and poetical. The writers [sic] themes are as various and unique as could be desired—such as "Economy," "Where I lived and what I lived for," "Reading," "Sounds," "Solitude," "Visitors," "The Bean-field," "Higher Laws," "Brute Neighbors," "House-Warming," "Winter Animals," &c., &c. It is something to say of "Walden" in these days of abject and drivelling [sic] imitations, that the work is thoroughly original both in its faults and excellencies, and will be found a very readable and spicy volume. It is neatly printed,—contains 356 pages, and is sold by Saml. B. Nichols.

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