*Whitman 015.51 Shephard, Esther. Walt Whitman's prose. New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company [1938] xii, 453 p. illus., plates, ports., facsims. 22 ome "The source of Leaves of Grass is, in spite of all Walt Whitman's portestations to the contrary, in the fragment of a book, the epilogue of a French novel. The novel is The Countess of Rudolstadt, by George Sand."—p. 40. (Continued on next card)