Changed Index of Contemporary Reviews of the Rossetti edition of Leaves of Grass

Changed Index of Contemporary Reviews of the Rossetti edition of Leaves of Grass,
http://whitmanarchive.org/criticism/reviews/poems/index.html and the original TEI files as follows:

·  Changed author name "Anonymous" to "Austin, Alfred" and changed title of journal, "Temple Bar" to its full name, "Temple Bar: A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers" on http://whitmanarchive.org/criticism/reviews/poems/anc.00195.html as identified in the Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals.

· Changed author name "Anonymous" to "Earle, John Charles" and changed title of review from "Poems by Walt Whitman" to "Poems by Walt Whitman [Part 1]" on http://whitmanarchive.org/criticism/reviews/poems/anc.00197.html according to the Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals.

· Changed author name "Anonymous" to "Earle, John Charles" and changed title of review from "Poems by Walt Whitman" to "Poems by Walt Whitman [Part 2]" on http://whitmanarchive.org/criticism/reviews/poems/anc.00198.html according to the Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals.

Changed Index of Contemporary Reviews of 1860 Leaves of Grass

Changed Index of Contemporary Reviews of 1860 Leaves of Grass, http://whitmanarchive.org/criticism/reviews/leaves1860/index.html and the original TEI files for each review as follows:

Changed author from [Anonymous] to [Call, Wathen Mark Wilks] on http://whitmanarchive.org/criticism/reviews/leaves1860/anc.00050.html because the Wellesley Index of Victorian Periodicals lists Call as the contributor of this review.

Changed the name of the periodical from London Review to its full name, the London Review and Weekly Journal of Politics, Society, Literature, and Art on http://whitmanarchive.org/criticism/reviews/leaves1860/anc.00235.html. According to the Wellesley Index of Victorian Periodicals, the London Review was actually a different periodical in existence for one year only—1829.

--Bev Rilett

Typo corrected in Civil War letter

The typo "snood" in the Letter from Fred B. McReady to Walt Whitman, 29 April 1863 has been changed to "snoot." The phrase now reads: "when a fellowed pluged you in the snoot instead of hitting back give him another try."

~Janel

Corrections to stylesheet and transcription files for Leaves 1891-92

User Mario Corona alerted us to the absence of the bracketed note in the display of "The Rounded Catalogue Divine Complete" (Leaves 1891-92), and an investigation turned up several similar omissions, which I traced to the stylesheet. I have added a template for authorial notes in the XSLT stylesheet. I also noticed that the horizontal separators for the couple of footnotes in the 1891-92 edition were missing, so I added the appropriate code to the TEI file and created a template in the XSLT stylesheet to display them.

~ Brett

revision made to 2 contemporary reviews of the Specimen Days and Collect (Index and corresponding TEI files)

On the Contemporary Reviews of Specimen Days (index and TEI files, I changed "Anonymous" in this entry
[Anonymous]. "[Review of Specimen Days and Collect]." Westminster Review n.s. 64 (July 1883) 287-91 to "Call, Wathen Mark Wilks" as attributed in the Wellesley Index (DNB: Wathen Mark Wilks, 1817-1890, misc. author. Venn.) Note that Call also is credited with writing an 1860 review of Leaves of Grass.

Also, I have substituted "Metcalfe, William Musham" for "Anonymous" here: [Anonymous]. "Walt Whitman. "[Review of Leaves of Grass (1881–82), Specimen Days and Collect, and Poems of Walt Whitman]" Scottish Review (September 1883): 281-300.  The Wellesley Index credits: Metcalfe, William Musham, 1840-1916, editor Scot Rev.Who Was Who, A Catalog of Books Represented by Library of Congress Printed Cards

-Bev Rilett

Revision made to 3 contemporary reviews of the 1855 Leaves of Grass (Index and corresponding TEI files)

• [Eliot, George]. "[Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)]." The Westminster and Foreign Quarterly Review n.s. 9 (1 April 1856): 343-56. was changed to The Westminster Review. (The two journals were briefly combined in 1846 before the Foreign Quarterly Review ceased publication; in 1856 the journal was titled The Westminster Review.)

              The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900 definitely attributes authorship to George Eliot.

• Anonymous]. "[Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)]." The Dublin Review 41 (September 1856): 267-8.

  The Wellesley Index lists contributor as: Bagshawe, Henry Ridgard, 1799-1870, barrister, ed. 

• [Lewes, George Henry (?)]. "Transatlantic Latter-Day Poetry." The Leader 7 (7 June 1856): 547-8. changed author to [Lewes, George Henry or Eliot, George].
• According to George Eliot: A Biographical History, (William Baker and John C. Ross, eds., pub by Oak Knoll Press and the British Library, 2002), George Eliot "provided a string of relatively short articles and reviews for the Leader published between 17 March 1855 and 30 August 1856 (421); and that "Between March 1855 and August 1856, George Eliot recorded payment for 21 articles for the Leader, at 1££,1s apiece" [Journal 58, 54-65] (428). George Eliot is known to have written George Henry Lewes's regular columns for the Leader in the spring of 1855, and she definitely wrote "The Poets and Poetry of America" for the Leader [VII (1 March 1856): 306] (434), but which of the two wrote this June 1856 review of Walt Whitman is not definitely established.

-Bev Rilett

Italics added

The following line is italicized in Whitman's "Old Chants" on page 414 of the 1891-92 Leaves of Grass: "And name for me before thou goest each ancient poet." (See http://www.whitmanarchive.org/published/LG/1891/poems/383.) This correction has been made thanks to Mario Corona's copy-editing suggestion. ~Katie Kruger