Anonymous. "Walt Whitman." New York Illustrated News 2 (2 June 1860), 60. Reprinted: Holloway (1936). [This issue's new cover portrait of Whitman is described. The new edition is bringing him forward "as one of the most remarkable men of this day." Biographical informaion; publication history of Leaves; Emerson's letter (1855) quoted. Whitman "has risen from the case to become one of the great lights and leaders of literature--a poet whose broad and vigorous power and uncommon felicity of illustration is acknowledged wherever the English language is spoken." The success of this edition "has already been great, and must be enormous."]