“Remarkably interesting novel.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 69. F. 3, ’06. 510w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 388. Je. 16, ’06. 180w.
“We do not find much to please us in such stories.”
+ – Sat. R. 102: 274. S. 1, ’06. 240w.
Traubel, Horace. With Walt Whitman in Camden: a daily record of conversations kept by Horace Traubel. **$3. Small.
The author, an Englishman, makes no claim to biographical completeness, but simply gives daily jottings on talks with Whitman extending over a period of four months together with many letters of the period. “One may hazard a prophecy that the unbeliever will be a convert before he closes its pages; not from any propaganda on the poet’s part, but from the sheer human affection which his companionship inspires.” (N. Y. Times.)
+ Ann. Am. Acad. 28: 179. Jl. ’06. 80w.
“In all the mass of chaff there is quite enough of true grain—of sage and admirable thoughts and sayings—to have made a smaller book which would have done the fame of Whitman a laudable service.” M. A. DeWolfe Howe.