Contemporary Notices and Reviews of 
Walden; or, Life in the Woods
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Springfield Daily Republican (23 August 1854):  p. 2, col. 3.

This is a journal and account of an ascetic life, passed in the woods near Concord, Mass.  It opens with a dissertation on the economy of life and wants of human nature, which is radical and austere.

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