Contemporary Notices and Reviews of 
Walden; or, Life in the Woods
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"New Publications"
Cincinnati Daily Gazette, 19 August 1854, p. 1, col. 8.

Mr. Thoreau is an eccentric young man, who chose to build himself a house in the woods, with his own hands, and dwell there two years and two months, during which period the greater portion of the contents of this volume were written.  He is an utterly fearless thinker and writer, of which his book will give sufficient evidence.  T[o] those who are not familiar with his writings, the following title of some of the chapters of his book will be an acceptable hint of what they may expect to find in it: Sounds, Solitude, The Bean Field, The Village, The Ponds, Higher Laws, Brute Neighbors, Winter Animals, The Pond in Winter, and Spring. 

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