Contemporary Notices and Reviews of 
Walden; or, Life in the Woods
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“Ticknor, Reed and Fields” 
Home Journal [New York] (7 October 1854): p. 3, col. 1.

.Then comes a unique volume, which might be called the æsthetics of country life; it is entitled "Life in the Woods," and records the experiences, physical and moral, of a hermit of Concord, Massachusetts, a friend of Emerson and Hawthorne—Henry D. Thoreau.  The book is remarkable for its graphic descriptions, its original vein of reasoning, and its earnest introspection: a work derived from solitude and nature is a rarity in American letters; and no contemplative or imaginative reader can fail to discover in its pages refreshment and delight.

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