Perry's A Study of Prose Fiction, Chap. IX., Realism.
Howells's Criticism and Fiction.
Burt and Howells's The Howells Story Book. (Contains biographical matter.)
Henry James's The Art of Fiction.
Phelps's William Dean Howells, in Essays on Modern Novelists.
Brownell's Henry James, in American Prose Masters.
Canby's The Short Story in English. (James.)
Whitman's Leaves of Grass (1897), 446 pp. (Contains all of his poems, the publication of which was authorized by himself.)
Triggs's Selections from the Prose and Poetry of Walt Whitman. (The best for general readers.)
Perry's Walt Whitman, his Life, and Work. (Excellent.)