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Notes
For an account of Walsh's early literary career, see my "The Relationship of Robert Walsh, Jr., to the Port Folio and the Dennie Circle: 1803-1812," The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, XCII (April, 1968), 195-219.
Robert Walsh, Didactics: Social, Literary, and Political (Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1836), 2 vols. Walsh's book was reviewed favorably in several leading journals; e.g., Edgar Allan Poe, "Walsh's 'Didactics,'" The Southern Literary Messenger, II (May, 1836), 399-401; Lewis Gaylord Clark, "The Didactics," The Knickerbocker, or New York Monthly Magazine, VII (July, 1836), 110; John G. Palfrey, "Walsh's Didactics," The North American Review, XLIII (July, 1836), 257-261; [anon. rev.] "Didactics: Social, Literary, and Political," The Christian Examiner and General Review, 3rd Series, XXI (November, 1836), 268-269.
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