Contemporary Notices and Reviews of 
Walden; or, Life in the Woods
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Watchman and Reflector [Boston] (5 October 1854): p. 158

"A Life in the Woods," within twenty miles of Boston may strike the reader as hardly affording enough of material in the shape of incident and adventure, for a fair sized volume like the present. But he must read and learn his mistake, for this beyond dispute is one of the most original, eccentric and suggestive books which the season has brought out. The writer, in relating his own experience, which he does with naivete, shows much power of reflection, and a philosophic knowledge of men and things.

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