Walden: Contemporary Notices and Reviews

• New-York Daily Tribune (2 April 1849)

• "How to Live—Mr. Thoreau's Example" and "Reply" New-York Daily Tribune (7 April 1849)

• William Rounseville Alger, “Literary Notices,” Universalist Quarterly (6 October 1849)

• Boston Transcript, 21 July 1854, p. 1.

• “Thoreau’s Life in the Woods,” New York Evening Post, 24 July 1854, p. 1.

• “The Hounds in Walden Woods,” Boston Commonwealth (25 July 1854)

• “Walden Ice,” Boston Commonwealth, 27 July 1854, p. 1, col. 7.

• “Life in the Woods.  Former Inhabitants,” Boston Daily Evening Traveller, 28 July 1854, p. 4, cols. 1–2.

• [Horace Greeley?] “A Massachusetts Hermit,” New-York Daily Tribune (29 July 1854)

• “A Massachusetts Philosopher,” Oneida Circular (1 August 1854)

• [Horace Greeley?] “A Massachusetts Hermit,” New-York Semi-Weekly Tribune (1 August 1854)

• “A New Book by Henry Thoreau,” Norfolk Democrat [Dedham, Mass.] (4 August 1854)

• “Life in the Woods,” Bunker-Hill Aurora and Boston Mirror, 5 August 1854, p. 1, cols. 6–7.

• [Horace Greeley?] “A Massachusetts Hermit,” New-York Weekly Tribune (5 August 1854)

• Algoma [Charles C. Hazewell], “Our Boston Correspondence,” New York Herald (7 August 1854)

• Boston Daily Bee (8 August 1854)

• Daily Evening Traveller (Boston) (9 August 1854)

• “New Publications,” Boston Daily Bee (9 August 1854)

• Boston Atlas (10 August 1854)

• “New Publications,” Boston Daily Journal (10 August 1854)

• “New Publications,” Salem Register, 10 August 1854, p. 2, col. 3.

• “Walden; or, Life in the Woods,” Lowell Journal and Courier (10 August 1854)

• Providence Daily Journal (11 August 1854)

• “New Publications,” Salem Gazette, 11 August 1854, p. 2, col. 6.

• [John Sullivan Dwight], “Editorial Correspondence,” Dwight’s Journal of Music 5 (12 August 1854): 149–50.

• “New Publications,” Boston Commonwealth, 12 August 1854, p. 2, col. 4.

• “New Publications,” Olive Branch [Boston] (12 August 1854)

• “New Publications,” New Bedford Mercury (12 August 1854)

• “New Publications,” Albany Argus (15 August 1854)

• “Extracts from Walden,” Worcester Palladium, 16 August 1854, p. 1, col. 4.

• Worcester Palladium, 16 August 1854, p. 3.

• “Literary Notices,” Burlington Sentinel [Vermont] (17 August 1854)

• Daily Transcript [Worcester] (17 August 1854)

• Portland Transcript (19 August 1854)

• “New Books,” Daily Ohio State Journal, 19 August 1854, p. 3, col. 2.

• “New Publications,” Cincinnati Daily Gazette (19 August 1854)

• “Recent Publications,” Cummings’ Evening Bulletin [Philadelphia], 19 August 1854, p. 2, col. 2.

• “New Publications,” Boston Commonwealth, 12 August 1854, p. 2, col. 4.

• Saturday Evening Gazette [Boston], 19 August 1854, p. 2, col. 6.

• Portsmouth Journal of Literature and Politics, 19 August 1854, p. 2, col. 3.

• Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch, 20 August 1854, p. 1, col. 6.

• “Recent Publications,” Newark Daily Advertiser, 21 August 1854, p. 2, col. 5.

• "New Publications," Newport Daily News (22 August 1854)

• “Literary Record,” Dollar Magazine [Philadelphia], 23 August 1854, p. 3, col. 3.

• “New Publications,” Springfield Daily Republican (23 August 1854)

• “Literature,” New York Morning Express, 24 August 1854, p. 2, col. 4.

• “New Books,” New Orleans Daily Picayune, 24 August 1854, p. 2, col. 1.

• “Notices of New Publications,” Puritan Recorder [Boston], 24 August 1854, p. 133, col. 6.

• “The Battle of the Ants,” Portland Transcript, 26 August 1854, p. 157, col. 1.

• [T. Starr King,] “New Publications,” Christian Register [Boston] (26 August 1854)

• “New Publications,” Saturday Evening Post [Philadelphia] (26 August 1854)

• Philadelphia Register, before 29 August 1854.

• “Notices of Books,” Commercial Advertiser [New York], 29 August 1854, p. 2, col. 4.

• “Literary,” Richmond Enquirer, 29 August 1854, p. 2, col. 4.

• “New Publications,” Boston Herald (29 August 1854)

• Graham’s Magazine, 45 (September 1854): 298–300.

• National Magazine, 5 (September 1854): 284–85.

• Southern Literary Messenger (September 1854)

• [Jesse Clements?] “New Publications,” Western Literary Messenger, 23 (September 1854): 44–46.

• “Literature,” Churchman [New York], 2 September 1854, p. 4, cols. 1–4.

• “Walden, or Life in the Woods,” Home Journal [New York] (2 September 1854)

• “Book Notices,” The State Capital Reporter [Concord, NH] (2 September 1854)

• “Recent Publications,” Morning Star [Dover, NH] (6 September 1854)

• “The Canadian Wood-cutter,” Albion, n.s. 13 (9 September 1854): 424.

• Albion, n.s. 13 (9 September 1854): 429.

• “Notices of New Books,” Morning Courier and New-York Enquirer (9 September 1854)

• “Book Notices,” Rochester Daily American (16 September 1854)

• “News,” Portland Transcript, 16 September 1854, p. 179, col. 3.

• “Notices of New Publications,” New York Times (22 September 1854)

• “New Publications,” New-York Family Courier (23 September 1854)

• Daily Alta California (23 September 1854)

• National Era, 8 (28 September 1854): 155.

• “New Books,” Morning Herald [Harrisburg, Penn.], 30 September 1854, p. 2, col. 1.

• “Walden; or, Life in the Woods,” Christian Inquirer [New York] (30 September 1854)

• [Charles Frederick Briggs], “A Yankee Diogenes,” Putnam’s Monthly Magazine, 4 (October 1854): 443–48.

• North American Review (October 1854)

• “Literary Notices,” Godey’s Magazine and Lady’s Book (October 1854)

• “Review of New Books,” Peterson’s Magazine (26 October 1854)

• “New Books,” Louisville Daily Courier (4 October 1854)

• Watchman and Reflector (5 October 1854)

• “Ticknor, Reed and Fields,” Home Journal [New York] (7 October 1854)

• [Elizabeth Barstow Stoddard], “Letter from a Lady Correspondent,” Daily Alta California, 5 (8 October 1854): 279.

• Boston Transcript, 19 October 1854, p. 1.

• Boston Atlas, 21 October 1854, p. 1.

• Yankee Blade, 28 October 1854, p. 3.

• “New Books,” Harvard Magazine (1 December 1854)

• [Lydia Maria Child?], National Anti-Slavery Standard, 16 December 1854, p. 3.

• Evart A. and George L. Duyckinck, “Henry David Thoreau,” Cyclopædia of American Literature, 2 vols. (New York: Scribner, 1855), 2:653–56.

• William Rounseville Alger, “The Transmigration of Souls,” North American Review, 80 (January 1855): 71.

• Edwin Morton, "Thoreau and His Books," Harvard Magazine, 1 (January 1855): 92, 98-99.

• “The Freight Train,” Western Literary Messenger, 23 (February 1855): 255–56.

• “Town and Rural Humbugs,” Knickerbocker Magazine, 45 (March 1855): 235–41.

• “Walden—Life in the Woods,” Portsmouth Journal of Literature and Politics, 17 March 1855.

• “Putnam’s Monthly for July,” New York Evening Post, 30 June 1855, p. 2, col. 2.

• “The Battle of the Ants,” Boston Christian Watchman and Reflector, 9 August 1855, p. 125, cols. 2–4.

• George Eliot, Westminster Review (January 1856)

• “America,” Critic [London] (1 May 1856)

• Horace Greeley, “The Bases of Character,” in The Rose of Sharon: A Religious Souvenir, for MDCCCCLVII, ed. Mrs. Caroline M. Sawyer (Boston: Abel Tompkins and Sanborn, Carter, and Bazin, 1857), pp. 65–73.

• “An American Diogenes,” Chamber’s Journal (21 November 1857)

• “The Atlantic Monthly,” Boston Transcript (18 June 1858)

• Thomas Starr King, The White Hills (Boston: Isaac N. Andrews, 1859), pp. 131, 307–308.

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