Books by John Burroughs. WORKS. 14 vols., uniform, 16mo, gilt top, $17.10; half calf, $34.10; half polished morocco, $37.45. WAKE-ROBIN. WINTER SUNSHINE. LOCUSTS AND WILD HONEY. FRESH FIELDS. INDOOR STUDIES. BIRDS AND POETS, with Other Papers. PEPACTON, and Other Sketches. SIGNS AND SEASONS. RIVERBY. WHITMAN: A STUDY. THE LIGHT OF DAY: Religious Discussions and Criticisms from the Standpoint of a Naturalist. Each of the above, $1.25. LITERARY VALUES. A Series of Literary Essays. FAR AND NEAR. WAYS OF NATURE. Each of the above, $1.10, _net_. Postage extra. WAYS OF NATURE. _Riverside Edition._ 12mo, $1.50, _net_. Postage extra. FAR AND NEAR. _Riverside Edition._ 12mo, $1.50, _net_. Postage 11 cents. A YEAR IN THE FIELDS. Selections appropriate to each season of the year, from the writings of John Burroughs. Illustrated from Photographs by CLIFTON JOHNSON. 12mo, $1.50. WHITMAN: A Study. _Riverside Edition._ 12mo, $1.50, _net_. THE LIGHT OF DAY: Religious Discussions and Criticisms from the Standpoint of a Naturalist. _Riverside Edition._ 12mo, $1.50, _net_. LITERARY VALUES. _Riverside Edition._ 12mo, $1.50, _net_. Postage, 11 cents. WINTER SUNSHINE. _Cambridge Classics Series._ Crown 8vo, $1.00. WAKE-ROBIN. _Riverside Aldine Series._ 16mo, $1.00. SQUIRRELS AND OTHER FUR-BEARERS. Illustrated. Square 12mo, $1.00. _School Edition_, 60 cents, _net_. HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY BOSTON AND NEW YORK [Illustration: WALT WHITMAN] WHITMAN _A STUDY_ BY JOHN BURROUGHS BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY The Riverside Press, Cambridge Copyright, 1896, BY JOHN BURROUGHS. _All rights reserved._ CONTENTS PAGE PRELIMINARY 1 BIOGRAPHICAL AND PERSONAL 23 HIS RULING IDEAS AND AIMS 73 HIS SELF-RELIANCE 85 HIS RELATION TO ART AND LITERATURE 101 HIS RELATION TO LIFE AND MORALS 169 HIS RELATION TO CULTURE 205 HIS RELATION TO HIS COUNTRY AND HIS TIMES 229 HIS RELATION TO SCIENCE 249 HIS RELATION TO RELIGION 257 A FINAL WORD 263 "_All original art is self-regulated, and no original art can be regulated from without; it carries its own counterpoise, and does not receive it from elsewhere._"--TAINE. "_If you want to tell good Gothic, see if it has the sort of roughness and largeness and nonchalance, mixed in places with the exquisite tenderness which seems always to be the sign manual of the broad vision and massy power of men who can see_ past _the work they are doing, and betray here and there something like disdain for it._"--RUSKIN.