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

  • Bernard Shaw as Humanitarian Humane Review, April 1908
  • Can the Social Residuum be Stamped Out? Progressive Review, February 1897 - Vol. 1, No. 5
  • Confessions of an Eton Master The Nineteenth Century, January 1885
  • Cruel Sports Westminster Review, 1892
  • David Henry Thoreau: A Centenary Essay The Humanitarian League, 1917
  • Edward Carpenter Vegetarian Review, April 1896
  • Everyday Ethics Seed-Time, July 1891
  • Food Reform Westminster Review, October 1886
  • Froude to Thoreau The Academy, 11 March 1899
  • Henry David Thoreau Vegetarian Review, May 1896
  • Horses in Warfare Peace year book By National Peace Council, 1912
  • Humanitarianism Westminster Review, Vol. 132, July 1889
  • Imperial Cockneydom The Scottish Art Review, November 1889
  • John Burroughs’ Essays The Gentleman's Magazine, 1889 - Part 1
  • Mr. Bernard Shaw and his Critics Seed-Time, unknown
  • Nature Lessons from George Meredith The Free Review, September 1896, Vol. IV
  • Petting of Animals Animals' Friend, 1896
  • Shelley and the Superior Person International Review (To-day), September 1889
  • Shelley's Gospel of Nature The Hygienic Review, No. 19, July 1, 1892
  • Single Works of Herman Melville J. Murray: London, 1893
  • Social Liberty Progress, June 1884
  • The Conversion of Richard Jefferies National Reformer, October 18, 1891
  • The Huntsman at Bay The New Adelphi, June 1929 - 2 no.3
  • 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
  • The Schoolmaster Abroad Commonweal, 26 March 1887
  • Thoreau The Hygienic Review, May 1896
  • Thoreau and Gandhi Nation & Athenaeum, 1930
  • Thoreau and Gilbert White New Age, November 1900
  • Thoreau and Jefferies Nature Notes, 1900
  • Thoreau's Life The Spectator, No. 65, October 18, 1890
  • unknown title on Socialism The New Nation's, 12 December 1891
  • Walking Stewart (a sketch of an eccentric pedestrian) Temple Bar, December, 1891, 93

Poems

  • The Joy That Never Palls Progress, November, 1886 - VI

Books

  • A Group of Unpublished Letters by Henry S. Salt to Joseph Ishill Oriole Press, Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, 1942
  • 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
  • Eton under Hornby: Some Reminiscences and Reflections A. C. Fifield, London, 1910
  • Flesh or Fruit? An Essay on Food Reform W. Reeves and Turner, London, 1888
  • Homo Rapiens, and Other Verses Watts & Co., London, 1926, 70 pages, 1926
  • Literae Humaniores, An Appeal to Teachers The Humanitarian League, 1894
  • Tennyson as a Thinker Reeves and Turner, London, 1893
  • The Case Against Corporal Punishment The Humanitarian League, London, 1913
  • The Heart of Socialism: Letters to a Public School Man Independent Labour Party, London, 1928
  • The Life of James Thomson ('B.V') Reeves and Turner, London, 1889
  • The New Charter, A Discussion of the Rights of Men and the Rights of Animals George Bell & Sons Ltd., London, 1896
  • The Song of the Respectables and Other Verses Labour Press Society, Manchester, 1896

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
  • Songs of the Army of the Night William Reeves, London, 1894
  • The Humane Review Ernest Bell, 1900-1910
  • The Story of Dido and Aeneas: The Fourth Book of Virgil's 'Aeneid' Watts and Company, 1926

Reviews

  • Some Verse Translations The Classical Review, Vol. 42, No. 2, May, 1928
  • The Story of Aeneas: Virgil's Aeneid Times Literary Supplement, January 24, 1929
  • Thoreau's Life The Spectator, 65, October 1890