Thoreau, the Poet-Naturalist - With Memorial Verses #225767

But a still more singular peculiarity marked the volume of 1873. As its printing went on, the publisher (mr. Niles) con sulted me in regard to it, finding Mr. Charming not always responsive to his suggestions; and finally said to me, for the author's information, that the volume was about fifty pages smaller than he had expected to make it. Could not Mr.