. . . . "But we all know that these very modestly-priced editions -- of financial necessity -- can present only what is out-of-copyright.On the very positive side, in addition to its relative and superior completeness, at the end there are many great critical essays about Thoreau by such writers as John Burroughs, Henry James, Virginia Woolf, James Russell Lowell, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and of course Thoreau'" . . . .