18 DECEMBER 1875, page 12

Walt Whitman, The American Poet : A Protest.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—An American, and an admirer of Walt Whitman, I cannot withhold my protest against a certain statement in Mr. Peter Bayne's essay upon......

Poetry.

A GREY and leaden sky, without a break, Shuts in the narrow world whereon I look, And, day by day, mine ears almost forget To miss the babbling of the ice-bound brook. The woods......

Books.

LORD MAYO.* THIS is an excellent and most readable book, but it is in no way a biography of Lord Mayo. Mr. Hunter has given us a lucid and most interesting history of the' work......

Letters To The Editor.

[TO TUR EDITOR OF TOE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—Allow me to point out a consideration which seems to have escaped your notice in your remarks of Dec. 4th upon Hertford College. The Act......