We have received a fine Portrait of Walt Whitman, etched
by Leon Richeton (Gay and Bird). It scarcely gives the impression of being the head of a poet, and there are many who question Walt Whitman's title to that name ; but there is much nobility about the face.—Master Lansbton, etched after Sir Thomas
Lawrence by Mons. E. Gaujean (Frost and Reed), has a distinctly Byronic look, which we are not aware was justified by anything in the character of the original ; but it belongs to a Byron time. The etching is excellent.—Mr. John Finnie's mezzotint, The Margin of Itydal Water (same publishers), gives us a powerful lIndscape. The view is taken from the level ; a noble bit of woodland forms the foreground, while the hills that rise on the further side of the lake make an effective background.—Finally, from the same publishers, we have The Old Townhall, Guildford, Surrey, etched by Mr. Charles Reid. The hall is a Jacobean building of some dignity of aspect, and has been finely rendered by the artist.
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