[283] _L. of G._, 298; (1860), 231. [284] _L. of G._, 297. [285] _L. of G._, 303. [286] _Ib._ (1860), 242. [287] _L. of G._, 196; see _supra_, 12. [288] _L. of G._, 79. [289] _Cf._ Mrs. Gilchrist in _In re_, 50. [290] _L. of G._, 87, 88. [291] _Ib._, 88. [292] _L. of G._, 94; (1860), 311. [293] Bucke, 102, 103. [294] _L. of G._, 95. [295] _Ib._ (1860), 378. Several of the poems are fuller in this edition, some being omitted in the complete _L. of G._ [296] Rossetti, _Selections_, 390 n.; Kennedy, 134. [297] _L. of G._, 97, 98, 100, 103. [298] _Ib._, 99. [299] _Ib._ (1860), 349. [300] Donaldson, 7. [301] _L. of G._, 101. [302] _Ib._ (1860), 354. [303] _Ib._ (1860), 355; _L. of G._, 110. [304] _L. of G._, 343. [305] _Ib._, 103, 104. [306] _Ib._, 104, etc. [307] _Ib._, 106. [308] _Ib._, 107. [309] _Ib._ (1860), 350. [310] _L. of G._, 109. [311] _L. of G._, 112. [312] _The Art of Creation._ [313] _L. of G._, 96. [314] _Ib._, 96. [315] _L. of G._, 298; _cf._ _An American Primer_, 18, 19. [316] _Ib._, 344. [317] _Ib._, 299. [318] _L. of G._, 216. [319] _Ib._, 302. [320] _Ib._, 370; (1860), 449. [321] _Ib._, 380. [322] _L. of G._, 382. CHAPTER XI AMERICA AT WAR The new edition of _Leaves of Grass_ pleased the critics as little as its predecessors, but had a wider circulation. Some four or five thousand copies had been sold before the house of Thayer and Eldridge went down in the financial crash which followed on the outbreak of the war.[323] Emerson came in again for some share of the critical assault, though his name was in no way connected with the new issue. Of Whitman himself a London journalist declared[324] that he was the most silly, the most blasphemous, and the most disgusting writer that he had ever perused. But if it found fresh enemies, the new edition found also new friends; and notably in England, whither a few adventurous copies of the earlier versions had already penetrated. Both Emerson and Thoreau had sent them to their English friends--among whom was Carlyle--but apparently with scant acknowledgment. Ruskin's correspondent, Mr. Thomas Dixon of Sunderland, had purchased a few examples of the first edition at Dutch auction; and some of these he forwarded to Mr. William Bell Scott, who again handed on one of them to Mr. W. M. Rossetti; an act which, as the story will show, proved to be of great importance to Walt Whitman.[325] It was the book of 1860, however, which first aroused the younger generation of Englishmen, among whom was the late Mr. Addington Symonds. "Within the space of a few years," says he, "we were all reading and discussing Walt." * * * * *