INDOOR STUDIES 



HENEY D. THOEBAtJ 



"T"N "Walden" Thoreau enumerates, in a serio- 

 -*- humorous vein, his various unpaid occupa- 

 tions, such as inspector of storms, surveyor of forest 

 paths and all across-lot routes, shepherd and herder 

 to the wild stock of the town, etc. Among the 

 rest he says: "Por a long time I was reporter to a 

 journal of no very wide circulation, whose editor 

 has never yet seen fit to print the hulk of my con- 

 tributions, and, as is too common with writers, 

 I got only my labor for my pains. However, in 

 this case my pains were their own reward." The 

 journal to which Thoreau so playfully alludes, con- 

 sisting of many manuscript volumes, is now the prop- 

 erty of Mr. H. Gr. 0. Blake, an old friend and 

 correspondent of his, and his rejected contributions 

 to it, after a delay of nearly twenty years, are 

 being put into print. "Early Spring in Massachu- 

 setts," "Summer," and "Winter," lately published, 

 are made up of excerpts from this journal. A few 



