THOREAU, HENRY DAVID

(181762), an American naturalist and author; pa ed through school and Harvard University without making any impre ion. The two famous years of his life are those he spent as a recluse in his self-made shanty in the woods near Walden Pond, 1845-47, and it is his Walden, 1854, which reveals to the world the curious and arresting originality of the man. Here he lived happily on a bare pittance, indulging to the full his sympathies with bird and beast, and giving free reign to his fresh and noble but rather egoistic thoughts. Other facts of interest in his life are his intimacy with Emerson, the diversity of his callings, and his contempt for work and wealth. Norse explorer; voyaged as trader from Iceland to Green land; thence to Scotia, with large contingent in three ve els; attempted colonization With part of the company.