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Walter Harding tracked down a review of Walden in the National Anti-Slavery Standard from 1854, and found “what was probably the best notice Thoreau received in his lifetime.” There’s no identity of the author.

As a Chicago Tribune reviewer, Walter Harding lists his top 10 favorite books of the year.

Einstein commends Gandhi’s technique of civil disobedience, but upon inquiry from the Thoreau Society, Walter Harding discovers that Einstein had never read Thoreau.

Walter Harding quotes a letter Thoreau wrote to Emerson in which Thoreau rejects a marriage proposal from Sophia Foord and states that he has no intention of ever marrying. The rest is a mini biography of Foord’s life.

Walter Harding reviews cartoons in the Saturday Evening Post, where he commends that the comics focus on homey little affairs that bring a laugh with little intellectual effort.