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HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND THE GREAT TOWER, Canterbury EATON HALL, Cheshire selected from among seventy nine charcoal sketches contained in The Atlantic Monthly Advertiser LUDLOW CASTLE ENGLISH WITH DECORATIVE COVER A TOWER ON THE WALL Chester "Nothing but praise should be CO., Boston and New York SHREWSBURY LUDLOW TOWER FITZ GERALD'S HOUSE, Old Suffolk KENILWORTH 31 The several volumes of Thoreau's writings published in the past have been eagerly read, and now after a lapse of more than forty years, his complete Journal is offered to the public. The publication for the first time of a complete manuscript containing so important a part of the work of so famous an author, is one of the greatest literary events of recent years. The Journal The writings divide naturally into two sections, the Works and the Journal, the former containing the material which Thoreau himself prepared. 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