Henry Salt (1853-1939) was the author of the Life of Henry David Thoreau, Animals Rights and A Plea for Vegetarianism which inspired Gandhi for follow a vegetarian diet.

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Essays

  • Biblical Food Reformers Reformer, October 1897
  • Can the Social Residuum be Stamped Out? Progressive Review, February 1897 - Vol. 1, No. 5, p. 461
  • Confessions of an Eton Master The Nineteenth Century, January 1885, pp. 170-84
  • Cruel Sports Westminster Review, 1892, pp. 545-553
  • Edward Carpenter Vegetarian Review, April 1896, pp. 185-7
  • Everyday Ethics Seed-Time, July 1891, p. 10
  • Food Reform Westminster Review, October 1886, pp. 483-99
  • Henry David Thoreau Vegetarian Review, May 1896, pp. 225-228
  • Humanitarianism Westminster Review, Vol. 132, July 1889, pp. 74-91
  • Imperial Cockneydom The Scottish Art Review, November 1889, pp. II, 186-190
  • John Burroughs' Essays The Gentleman's Magazine, 1889 - Part 1, pp. 349-?
  • Mr. Bernard Shaw and his Critics Seed-Time, unknown, pp. 12-14
  • Nature Lessons from George Meredith The Free Review, September 1896, Vol. IV, p. 502
  • Shelley and the Superior Person International Review (To-day), September 1889, pp. 100-?
  • Shelley's Gospel of Nature The Hygienic Review, No. 19, July 1, 1892, pp. 185-187
  • Single Works of Herman Melville J. Murray: London, 1893
  • Social Liberty Progress, June 1884, pp. 340-6
  • The Huntsman at Bay The New Adelphi, June 1929 - 2 no.3, pp. 339-343
  • The Poetry of John Barlas The Yellow Book: An Illustrated Quarterly, Volume XI, October, 1896
  • The Practical with the Ideal The Critical Response to Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, 1994
  • Thoreau The Hygienic Review, May 1896
  • Thoreau and Gilbert White New Age (London), November 15, 1900
  • Thoreau and Jefferies Nature Notes, 1900
  • Thoreau Illustrated Saturday Review, Vol. 86, November 5, 1898, pp. 600-601
  • Thoreau's Poetry Art Review (London), May 1890, Vol. 1, pp. 153-155
  • unknown title on Socialism The New Nation, 12 December 1891
  • Walking Stewart (a sketch of an eccentric pedestrian) Temple Bar, December, 1891, 93, pp. 573-578

Poems

  • All Fools Day Justice, April 2, 1887, p. 3
  • Bob Anderson, my Beau Justice, January 4, 1908, p. 7
  • Hodge's Dream Justice, November 20, 1886, p. 3
  • Song of the Respectables The Commonweal, May 31, 1890, p. 175
  • The Joy That Never Palls Progress, November, 1886 - VI, p. 456
  • The Poet Laureate (On His Reported Self-Sufficiency) Justice, May 2, 1885, p. 5
  • The Visit of the Czar Justice, July 31, 1909, p. 3
  • We British Workmen Labour Leader, 26 May, 1894, p. 5

Books

  • A Group of Unpublished Letters by Henry S. Salt to Joseph Ishill Oriole Press, Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, 1942, p. 58
  • A Plea for Vegetarianism and Other Essays Vegetarian Society, Manchester, 1886, p. 115
  • An Examination of Hogg's 'Life of Shelley' Richard Clay & Sons, London, 1889
  • Consolations of a Faddist, Verses Reprinted from 'The Humanitarian' A. C. Fifield, London, 1906, p. 32
  • Flesh or Fruit? An Essay on Food Reform W. Reeves and Turner, London, 1888, p. 48
  • Literae Humaniores, An Appeal to Teachers The Humanitarian League, 1894, p. 32
  • Tennyson as a Thinker Reeves and Turner, London, 1893, p. 56
  • The Case Against Corporal Punishment The Humanitarian League, London, 1913, p. 29
  • The Heart of Socialism: Letters to a Public School Man Independent Labour Party, London, 1928, p. 62
  • The Life of James Thomson ('B.V') Reeves and Turner, London, 1889, p. 335
  • The New Charter, A Discussion of the Rights of Men and the Rights of Animals George Bell & Sons Ltd., London, 1896, p. 155
  • The Song of the Respectables and Other Verses Labour Press Society, Manchester, 1896, p. 20

Books Edited by Salt

  • Cruelties of Civilization: A Program of Humane Reform Reeves and Turner, London, 1894-97
  • Humanitarian Essays, New Series No. 11 The Humanitarian League, 1910
  • Selections from the Poems of John E. Barlas Elkin Mathews: London, 1925, p. 64
  • The Humane Review Ernest Bell, 1900-1910
  • The Story of Dido and Aeneas: The Fourth Book of Virgil's 'Aeneid' Watts and Company, 1926, p. 46

Reviews

  • Henry David Thoreau Literary World (Boston), Vol. 27, October 17, 1896, pp. 342-343
  • Life of Henry David Thoreau Critic, Vol. 29, September 19, 1896, p. 172
  • Nature's Animals' Rights review Nature, Volume 47 Number 1204, 24 November 1892, p. 73
  • Review of Salt's Life of Thoreau Academy, Vol. 38, October 25, 1890, pp. 357-358
  • Some Verse Translations The Classical Review, Vol. 42, No. 2, May, 1928, pp. 64-67
  • The Story of Aeneas: Virgil's Aeneid Times Literary Supplement, January 24, 1929, p. 55
  • Thoreau Speaker, Vol. 2, November 8, 1890, pp. 529-530
  • Thoreau Inquirer, July 18, 1896, pp. July 18, 1896
  • Thoreau's Life The Spectator, No. 65, October 18, 1890, pp. 526-528

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