Contemporary Notices and Reviews of 
Walden; or, Life in the Woods
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"Book Notices"
Rochester Daily American (16 September 1854): p. 2, col. 5.

The author of this is well known to those who sympathize with Reform and Reformers, and who keep track of the literary oddities that center at, or at least gyrate around Boston and its "notions."  He lived in the woods a mile from Concord, and near Emerson, when he wrote this book, and passed his time as a sort of Hermit, at least so the denizens of that region thought.  They wanted to know what he eat [sic], if he was lonesome, or afraid, if he was charitable, and if he supported poor children.  What he did do, is here written out, not as an egotistic narrative, but rather as the experience and the views of life which a solitary thinker with Radical tendencies might have.  Every way it is a capital book, and well worth perusal.

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