Contemporary Notices and Reviews of 
Walden; or, Life in the Woods
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"New Books"
Harvard Magazine (1 December 1854): p. 45.

Although this is a book some three months old, we cannot forbear to mention it in our list of new publications, so much are we pleased with it.  The author is a Concord man, a friend of Mr. Emerson's, whom some people accuse him of copying.  But Mr. Thoreau is evidently a man of much originality, as this book, and his former one,—"A Week on the Concord and Merrimac," [sic]"—amply show.  We shall notice the books and their author at greater length in a future number.  We hope soon to announce the publication of a book by Mr. Emerson,—his long-expected work on England. Perhaps we may be able to speak of that also in our next.

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