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Notes
I derive my information from the account of The Critic in Frank Luther Mott, A History of American Magazines, 1865-1885 (1957), pp. 548-551. One of the three works examined in this article, the Letters, has an index entry for The Critic. It is referred to but not indexed in Currier's bibliography of Whitman's writings.
I have a short piece on reviews of Henry James in The Critic accepted for publication in the Henry James Review and an article, "Matters English in The Critic," accepted by the Review of English Studies. I have sent xerox of an essay on book reviewing by A. C. Benson, never reprinted, to Magdalene College, Cambridge, of which he was Master for many years.
William J. Chute, Damn Yankee! The First Career of Frederick A. P. Barnard, Educator, Scientist, Idealist (1978), p. 46.
The account in Garrison's life by his sons has JGW "at work in the field," I (1885) 69. I have not found the original in the Boston Herald, the clue of "a few years ago" being too general. The editorial interpolation giving the date of JGW's brother's death as 1883 would seem to put the article at some time before that date, else JGW would have included it.
N.S. (1885) 118, on the pronunciation of Evangeline; 260, on engravings by Elbridge Kingsley for Poems of Nature; N.S. 8 (1887) 319, notice of a poem by Rose Terry Cooke and an essay by Mrs. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps on JGW's birthday printed in The Independent; 330, quotation of a sonnet by E. C. Stedman on JGW's birthday, also from The Independent; N.S. 9 (1888) 83, JGW's portrait published by Houghton Mifflin; N.S. 12 (1889) 305 and 309, JGW's desire for quiet on his 82nd birthday; 328, curiosity seekers besiege his barber for clippings of his hair; N.S. 14 (1890) 52, great praise from The Athenaeum; 222, Charles Aldrich named as donor of the MS of The Willows to the Iowa State Library; N.S. 16 (1891) 12, JGW gives the desk on which he wrote his earliest poems to a "gentleman in Portland"; N.S. 17 (1892) 331-332, a long unsigned piece on JGW as "a typical American."
See also, as of peripheral interest, N.S. 1 (1884) 66 and 107, an engraving for a poem by JGW in Harper's Weekly for March 12; N.S. 2 (1884) 206, quotation from a letter of John Bright on the occasion of a portrait of JGW being presented to the Friends' School in Providence, R.I.; N.S. 8 (1887) 315, William E. Rideing and Dr. J. R. Nichols visit the JGW birthplace; N.S. 14 (1890) 325, on JGW's 83rd birthday and the effect of cold upon him; N.S. 16 (1891) 72, JGW ill, walks but little, his "increasing deafness" makes conversation difficult and prevents his "attending church," and 99, on the death of Charles F. Coffin, Quaker friend of JGW; N.S. 18 (1892), 137-8, detailed account of JGW's death by Charles E. L. Wingate, and 151, a detailed account of the funeral, also by Wingate; E. C. Stedman's words at the funeral service; 182-183, 194 eulogies on JGW; 196, Samuel T. Packard (read Pickard) of Portland, Maine, JGW's chosen biographer, asks for letters by the poet; 212, an account of memorial exercises in Havenhill, Mass. in October 1892; 221-222, the full text of Oliver Wendell Holmes's letter read at the memorial exercises; 234, a memorial at Hampton Falls on October 21, 1892; 253-254, poems by Holmes and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps on the death of JGW; 267, An Elegy for Whittier, by Walter Storrs Bigelow, reprinted from American Gardening, beginning "In vain for him the buds shall burst their shield"; 281-282, purchase of part of the JGW homestead by James H. Carleton at Haverhill; 362-363, memorial at Amesbury; 367, an inventory of JGW's estate, more detailed than that in the Life (p. 529); 376, another memorial in Haverhill, with formation of the Trustees of the JGW Homestead.
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