Sports in the West, by W. H. Maxwell, has been republished.

Miss Kavanagh's Women of Christianity, neatly reprinted by the Messrs. APPLETON. minster Review speaks highly: "Of its execution, The Westconsidered as a biographical and sketchy review of the action of Christianity upon the character and social position of women, we can speak in terms of unmixed praise. Perhaps we might have desired a little more expansion in some places, and a little more economy of detail in others; but objections of this nature-if they be objections-are founded in the taste and knowledge of the reader rather than the mis-judgment of the author, and may be urged with equal force against all books that aim at the compression of numerous facts into a short compass."

The Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli continue to attract a large share of critical attention. The Westminster, Bentley's Miscellany, Sharpe's Journal, among others, contain elaborate notices of it, usually favorable.

Mr. Squier's work on Nicaragua, originally published in 2 volumes by the APPLETONS, has been reprinted and generally commented on. The Westminster remarks of it: "A book of travels in a fresh country, from one competent to look with a philosophical eye upon what presents itself, is of vast importance, and not likely, for many a day, to be a superfluity. Mr. Squier was a fit traveler for such a country as Nicaragua. He visited the country as Chargé d'Affaires of the United States, and had in that capacity the most favorable opportunities of seeing the country in all its aspects and relations. It is a carefully written and reliable work."

Two of our poets are thus briefly dismissed by the Westminster: "Bayard Taylor has issued a new volume of Tennysonian imitations, and R. H. Stoddard has produced some very neat imitations of Bayard Taylor. Neither of them rises above mediocrity. Taylor has evidently a large organ of locality, and excels in description of scenery. His vocation is that of a traveler rather than a poet."

The elaborate work published by Mr. GARRIQUE, under the editorial auspices of Prof. Baird of the Smithsonian Institute, the Iconographic Encyclopedia, is thus noticed by the Westminster Review: "It is strictly a circle of the sciences,' and excludes biography and speculative philosophy. The subjects treated of are mathematics and astronomy, physics and meterology, chemistry and mineralogy, geognosy and geology, botany and zoology, anthropology and surgery, geography, history, and ethnology, military and naval sciences, architecture and the fine arts, mythology and technology. In short, it is a series of text books of a highly popular character, intended for the general reader. To give it all the convenience of an ordinary encyclopædia, the indexes and contents are very complete, occupying more than 200 pages. The entire work occupies four royal octavo volumes, with two additional quarto volumes for the 12,000 illustrations which accompany the letter-press.

Mr. PUTNAM has commenced a series of semi monthly volumes, at the low price of twenty-five cents each, which promises well. The six volumes

[May,

already issued embrace three volumes of selected essays and sketches from Dickens' Household Words, walks and talks of an American Farmer in Engtwo volumes of Hood's comic writings, and the Reach's Claret and Olives-a work which has also land, by Frederic Law Olmsted, and Angus B. been reprinted in England.

The Messrs. APPLETON have also commenced a series of little larger works at fifty cents a volume, in which are embraced thus far, Thackeray's Yellow Plush Papers, Essays from the London Times, Huc's Recollections of a Journey through Thibet, Tartary, and China, the Maiden and Married Life of Mary Powell, afterwards Mistress Milton, and the Gaities and Gravities of Horace Smith. Future numbers promise Thackeray's Paris Sketch Book; Poole's Little Peddlington; the Ingoldsby Legends, and Papers from the Quarterly Review.

Mr. PUTNAM announces a new work by the author Wide Wide World," entitled Queechy; Miscellanies, of the very successful and attractive work "The by Douglas Jerrold; the Homes of American Genius; the Solar System, by J. C. Hind; Physical Training of Girls, by Elizabeth Blackwell, M. D.; Roughing it in the Bush, by Mrs. Moodie; Prose and Verse, by Mark Lemon; Romances of Real Mountains, by T. Kelley; Public Honors to the Life, edited by Leigh Hunt; Across the Rocky Memory of Cooper; Musical Anecdotes; Zoological Anecdotes; Pippins and Cheese, by Clark; Table Talk, by Sidney Smith and others; the Best Story Tellers, by Charles Knight, (a Series); Traveling Hours, by Charles Knight, (a Series); Vizitelly's Readable Books, (a Series).

LITTLE & BROWN, of Boston, have in press, among other works, The Speeches of Hon. Robert C. WinLevi Woodbury. throp; The Miscellaneous Writings of Honorable

added several works to their valuable list: the first MESSRS. R. CARTER & BROTHERS have lately Apocalypse, translated by Rev. Patrick Fairbairn— volume of Dr. Hengstenberg's Commentary on the admirable exegetical tact, which will command the a work of massive learning, clear good sense, and attention of scholars; America as I found it, by the admirable piece of biography, the Life of Mary Mother of Mary Lundie Duncan, and author of that

of information; a new volume of Dr. Kitto's learned Lundie Duncan-it is well written, candid, and fuil and genial Comments on the Scriptures, for daily reading-this begins a new series on the Poetical and Prophetical Books of the Old Testament and of the New; Christ an Example, by Caroline Fry, author of the Listener; a very interesting Sketch of the Indian Tribes of Guiana, by Rev. Mr. Brett; a new edition of Grace Kennedy's little work, Decision, and others.

Cheesebro, entitled Isa, a pilgrimage, of great merMR. REDFIELD has published a new work, by Miss its. It indicates an order of mind far higher than the usual run of tales. Also, a fine edition of the of our female poets; Madame Pulzsky's Tales and Poems of Alice Carey, one of the best and deepest Traditions of Hungary, which were received with great favor in England, and are very attractive pictures of modes of life quite novel to us.

work, from the pen of Rev. Dr. Spring, entitled the MR. DODD has published a new and very able Glory of Christ.