21 JULY 1883, page 19

Walt Whitman's Prose Works.*

THE admiration for the writings of Walt Whitman which has been expressed by several cultivated writers and critics of our time has been a matter of much surprise to us. That Mr.......

French Puritans.*

IN spite of the reputed impossibility of "seeing ourselves as others see us," there is always a charm in making the attempt to look at ourselves from an outside point of view,......

Church And Brodribb's " Livy."* Hamm Records But Few...

that are comparable for interest with those of Hannibal, and fewer still, perhaps, than have been painted in colours so bright and enduring. Livy was the Macaulay, as Polybius......