A 4* /.^ m IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) l^|2£ 125 1.0 ISO ""^^ ll^H 2.2 I.I 1.8 Ill U 1.25 1.6 [ill - 6" ^ V] V) 71 \ ^ \\ > 1^> >^ ^%/^^^V V ''^ "% 6^ *^ >.!>^ '^.1<^ y Phol 23WESTMAINSTITEET Sciraices WEBSTER,N.Y. 14580 (716) 872-4503 Corporation CIHM/ICMH CIHM/ICMH / Microfiche Collection de Series. microfiches. Canadian Institute for IHistorical iVIicroraproductions/Institut Canadian de microreproductions historiques Technical and Bibliographic Notes/Notestechniques at bibliographiques The Institute has attempted to obtain the best L'Institut a microfilm^ le meilleur exemplaire original copy available for filming. Features of this qu'il lui a 6t6 possible de se procurer. Les details copy which may be bibliographically unique, de cetexemplaire qui sont peut-dtre uniques du which may alter any of the images in the point de vue bibliographique, qui peuvent modifier reproduction, or which may significantly change une image reproduite, ou qui peuvent exiger une the usual method of filming, are checked below. modification dans la mdthode normale de filmage sont indiqu6s cl-dessous. n Coloured covers/ Coloured pages/ Couverture de couleur Pages de couleur n Covers damaged/ Pages damaged/ I I Couverture endommagde Pages endommag6es D Covers restored and/or laminated/ Pages restored and/or laminated/ I Couverture restaurde et/ou pellicul6e I Pages restaur^es et/ou pellicul^es Cover title missing/ Pages discoloured, stained or foxed/ I I Le titre de couverture manque Pages d6color6es, tachetdes ou piqudes n Coloured maps/ Pages detached/ Cartes gdographiques en couleur Pages d6tachdes Coloured ink (i.e. other than blue or black)/ 0Showthrough/ Encre de couleur (i.e. autre que bleue ou noire) Transparence n Coloured plates and/or illustrations/ Quality of print varies/ Planches et/ou illustrations en couleur I I Quality indgale de I'impression D Bound with other material/ Includes supplementary material/ Reli6 avec d'autres documents Comprend du matdriel suppl^mentaire D Tight binding may cause shadows or distortion Only edition available/ along interior margin/ Seule Edition disponible Lareliure serrde peutcauser de I'ombre ou de la distortion le long de la marge int6rieure D Pages wholly or partially obscured by errata D Blank leaves added during restoration may eslnispus,retitshseuebse,settcp.o,sshiabvleebiemeanger/efilmed to appear within the text. Whenever possible, these Les pages totalement ou ^artiellement have been omitted from filming/ obscurcies par un feuillet d'errata, une pelure, II se peut que certaines pages blanches ajout^es etc., ont 6t6filmdes d nouveau de fapon d lorsd'une restauration apparaissent dans letexte, obtenir la meilleure image possible. mais, lorsque cela 6tait possible, ces pages n'ont pas 6t6 film^es. D Additional comments:/ Commentaires suppldmentaires; This item is filmed atthe reduction ratio checked below/ Ce document est filmd au taux de reduction indiqud ci-dessous. 10X 14X 18X 22X 26X 30X y 12X 16X 20X 24X 28X 32X The copy filmed here has been reproduced thanks L'exemplaire film6 fut reproduit grdce d la to the generosity of: g6n6roslt6 de: plaire National Library of Canada Bibliothdque nationale du Canada es details iques du int modifier ixiger une The images appearing here are the best quality Les images suivantes ont 6t6 reproduites avec le de filmage possible considering the condition and legibility plus grand soin, compte tenu de la condition et ofthe original copy and in keeping with the de la nettet6 de l'exemplaire filrr.6, et en filming contract specifications. conformity avec les conditions du contrat de filmage. Original copies in printed papercovers are filmed Les exemplaires originaux dont la couverture en beginning with the front coverand ending on papier est imprim6e sont film^s en commengant the last page with a printed or illustrated impres- par ie premier plat et en terminant soit par la sion, orthe back cover when appropriate. All dernidre page qui comporte une empreinte other original copies are filmed beginning on the d'impression ou d'illustration, soit par le second first page with a printed or illustrated impres- plat, selon le cas. Tous les autres exemplaires sion, and ending on the last page with a printed originaux sontfiimds en commen^ant par la or illustrated impression. premidre page qui comporte une empreinte 8d/ d'impression ou d'illustration et en terminant par iqudes la dernidre page qui comporte une telle empreinte. The last recorded frame on each microfiche Un des symboles suivants apparaitra sur la shall contain the symbol •—(meaning "CON- dernidre image d^e^cheque microfiche, selon le TINUED"), orthe symbol V (meaning "END"), cas: le symbole signifie "A SUIVRE", le V whichever applies. symbole signifie "FIN". Maps, plates, charts, etc., may be filmed at Les cartes, planches, tableaux, etc., peuvent dtre different reduction ratios. Thosetoo large to be film6s d des taux de reduction diffdrents. entirely included in one exposure are filmed Lorsque le document esttrop grand pour dtre beginning in the upper left hand corner, leftto reproduit en un seul clichd, il est filmd d partir right and top to bottom, as many frames as de Tangle sup6rieur gauche, de gauche d droite, itaire required. The following diagrams illustratethe et de hauten bas, en prenant le nombre method: d'images ndcessaire. Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la mdthode. d by errata Imed to 2 3 1 ment une pelure, I, 9 faqon d le. 2 3 1 4 5 6 32X ex. "^ ^^Lfn^ ZJL^ c ^^'^^^t^€r /<ti-*^( -"— ^^C-, y r^ 1 s- "2^ ^.^ -<^ ^ ) t Cx'fe-^^ L — -ri^ ^^^ IN RE WALT WHITMAN b \) IN RE WALT WHITMAN: EDITED BY HIS LITERARY EXECUTORS, HORACE L TRAUBEL, RICHARD MAURICE BUCKE, THOMAS HARNED B. -; "Now, thoughthisgreatcountryis seen to deserve in manyways thewonderofmankind, andisheldtobe wellworth visiting, richin allgoodthings,guarded by largeforceofmen,yetseemsit tohave heldwithin it nothing moreglorious than this man, nothing more holy^ marvellous and dear. The verses, too, ofhis godlikegenius, crywithaloudvoice, andsetforth in such wiseh—isgloriousdiscov- eriesthathehardlyseemsbomofamortalstock" Lucrrtius. PublishedhytheEditorsthrough DAVID McKAY 23 South Ninth Street PHIIvADELPHIA 1893 Edition One Thousand Copies. Number OfJeJ. Copyright, 1893, by Horace L. Traubrl, Richard Maurice Bucke AND Thomas B. Harned. OFORaC l<. FERQUSOW CO., PRIS'IHSAN^'LIOVROTYPERS, PHILADELPHIA. — : vid Copies. J3 A FIRST AND LAST WORD. A LETTER written by Walt Whitman to Dr.Bucke, in Septem- ber, 1888, read tiius " Of late I hav» two or three times occupied spells ofan hour or two hours by running over with best & alertest sense, & mel- lowed & ripened by five years, your 1883 book (biographical & critical)aboutme&LofG—& myverydeliberate&seriousmind — to you is that you letitstandjust as it is & if you have any- thing farther to write or print, book shape, you do so in an ad- KB ditional or further annex (of say 100 pages to its present 236 ones) leaving the present 1883 vol. intact, as 't is, any verbal — errors excepted & the further pages as (mainly) reference to — and furthermore etc. of the originalvol the text, O'C's letters, — — the appendix every page of the 236 left as now this is my — spinal and deliberate request the conviction the main thing the details & reasons not put down." The present volume may be regarded in the light ofthe "An- nex" foreseen by Walt Whitman. And this is especially per- missible since, as a matter of fact. Whitman shared during his lifetime in seme ofour earlierpreparations, and on all occasions ,?: referred to the scheme as one Jiat "seemed necessaryto the ful- ler elucidation of the critter and the cause." A distinguished Americanoritic, into whose hand fell our orisjinal announcement, in which we referred to the book as "a darling project" of Walt Whitman himself, remarked: "It is