Page:Some unpublished letters of Henry D. and Sophia E. Thoreau; a chapter in the history of a still-born book.djvu/71



N one of the quietest of American villages there dwelt an earnest reader of the Weekly Tribune in the days when Horace Greeley was at his best. In one issue thereof he found George Ripley's review of Thoreau's second book, Walden, or, Life in the Woods. The reviewer had made many lengthy citations from this most awakening work, and the reading of these set aflame the heart of the distant reader. He wrote to the publishers for and obtained a copy. From the title-page of Walden he learned that Thoreau was also the author of another book, the still-born Week on the Concord