Conserving Walt Whitman's Fame: Selections from Horace Traubel's Conservator, 1890-1919

Acknowledgments

Review of William Sloane Kennedy, Reminiscences of Walt Whitman, Laurens Maynard (1896) 248 “Sursum Corda, Comrades!” William Sloane Kennedy (1896) 252 “A Few Notes on Whitman and the New England Writers,” Laurens Maynard (1898) 255 Review of Elizabeth Porter Gould, Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman, H. T. (1900) 262 “The Whitman Cipher,” Ernest Crosby (1901) 263 “The Whitman Cult,” Francis Howard Williams (1901) 267 Review of Edmond Holmes, Walt Whitman’s Poetry: A Study and a Selection, H. T. (1902) 268 Review of Richard Burton, Literary Leaders of America, H. T. (1905) 270 “What Walt Whitman Means for Us All,” Francis Howard Williams (1906) 271 “Johannes Schlaf on Walt Whitman,” Paul Harboe (1906) 272 Review of Henry Bryan Binns, A Life of Walt Whitman, H. T. (1906) 273 Review of Edward Carpenter, Days with Walt Whitman, H. T. (1906) 275 The Controversy over Bliss Perry, Walt Whitman: His Life and Work “Whitman’s ‘Sin against Chastity,’” Isaac Hull Platt (1906) 276 “Questions for Bliss Perry,” H. T. (1906) 277 Review of Walt Whitman: His Life and Work, H. T. (1906) 278 “The Code of the Gentleman: Referred to Bliss Perry,” H. T. (1907) 280 “On the Trail of the Good Gray Poet,” William Sloane Kennedy (1907) 288 “Perry Didn’t Come In,” Edward Gordon Craig (1907) 293 “Slanderers of Whitman,” Thomas B. Harned (1907) 294 Review of George Rice Carpenter, Walt Whitman, H. T. (1909) 300 “Whitman Needs No Advocate,” William H. Smith (1913) 302 Review of Basil De Selincourt, Walt Whitman: A Critical Study, H. T. (1914) 303 “Smothering Walt,” Michael Monahan (1916) 305 viii Contents Review of William English Walling, Whitman and Traubel, Eugene V. Debs (1917) 307 Review of John Johnston and J. W. Wallace, Visits to Walt Whitman in 1890 and 1891, H. T. (1918) 309 “The Whitman Fellowship Meeting,” Fred Hier (1918) 311 “Whitmania,” H. T. (1918) 315 “Walt Whitman after Twenty Years,” Eliot White (1918) 318 “Vicious Circle Still Bars Whitman,” Morris Lychenheim (1918) 319 6. Sex Morality 321 Review of Edward Carpenter, Sex-Love: and Its Place in a Free Society, Isaac Hull Platt (1894) 322 “On Degeneracy,” Oscar Lovell Triggs (1895) 325 Review of Edward Carpenter, Ioläus: An Anthology of Friendship, H. T. (1902) 328 “Sex Radicalism,” H. T. (1905) 329 “Music and Sex,” H. T. (1911) 330 Review of Edward Carpenter, Love’s Coming of Age, H. T. (1911) 332 Review of William J. Robinson et al., Sex Morality: Past, Present and Future, H. T. (1912) 334 Review of William J. Robinson, Sex Problems of To-Day, H. T. (1912) 336 Review of Edward Carpenter, The Intermediate Sex: A Study of Some Transitional Types of Men and Women, H. T. (1913) 338 “Walt Whitman and Sex,” William J. Robinson (1913) 340 Review of Edward Carpenter, Intermediate Types among Primitive Folk: A Study in Social Evolution, H. T. (1915) 344 Review of William J. Robinson, Sex Knowledge for Men, H. T. (1917) 345 7. Fillers and Squibs: A Whitman and Traubel Potpourri 347 8. The Whitman Centennial Issue, May 1919 380 “Collect,” H. T. 380 “A Lighthouse by the Sea,” Mildred Bain 385 “As I Sit at Karsners’ Front Window,” H. T. 386 “The Walt Whitman Birthday Centennial,” J. W. Wallace 388 Contents ix “Walt Whitman’s Mystic Catalogues,” Fred Hier 391 “Lincolnism or Whitmanism?” testimonial by William F. Gable 397 “Centenary of Walt Whitman,” testimonial by Edward Carpenter 397 “Walt Whitman,” testimonial by David Karsner 398 “Whitman’s Shiftlessness,” testimonial by Phillips Russell 399 “Walt and the New World Order,” letter from Henry Bryan Binns 400 “Horace Traubel,” speech by Helen Keller 401 “Still the Same,” letter from Havelock Ellis 402 “The Ever-living Poet,” letter from Ernest Rhys 402 Finalé 403 Appendix 1. Topical Articles on Whitman in the Conservator 405 Appendix 2. Libraries Holding the Conservator 409 Index 411 x Contents With a few noted exceptions, every article is reproduced in its entirety; ellipses in the text, therefore, are original. Traubel’s relatively few footnotes are here marked, as they were in the Conservator, by an asterisk. All square brackets in the text [—] and the material therein are Traubel’s. All information provided by the present editor, within the text and in notes after articles , is enclosed in curved brackets {—}. Titles are original, unless in curved brackets or otherwise noted. All descriptions of the source of an article found just beneath the title and author’s...