Contemporary Notices and Reviews of 
Walden; or, Life in the Woods
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"Literary Notices"
Godey's Magazine and Lady's Book (October 1854): p. 370.

This ought to be a very profound and excellent book, a character which we think it will pretty fairly sustain among quiet and thoughtful readers.  When he wrote it, the author says he lived a mile from any neighbor, in a house which he had built with his own hands, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned his living by the labor of his hands only.  He lived there for the space of two years and two months, and, since his return to society, has prepared this volume of practical philosophy for the benefit of the world at large.  It records his manner of life in his seclusion, and obstacles he met with, and the interesting reflections to which they gave birth in a mind disposed to make the most of every object brought under its observation.

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