HARPER AND BROTHERS have published, besides their illustrated serials, an eclectic treatise on moral philosophy, by Rev. J. R. Boyd. It has been prepared with express reference to use in literary institutions, and by those who desire to possess an accurate general knowledge of what has been written on the subject, yet have neither leisure nor necessity for going into it as a study. As the word eclectic implies, this treatise is a compilation from the writings of the most approved and eminent philosophers and moralists, and seems likely to be useful.

Also a volume entitled, The Beauties of French History, being a not very extensive collection of incidents and anec dotes, from the lives of the French monarchs, beginning at Clovis and ending at Napoleon. The selection has been made with taste and judgment, and the style of the author or compiler is agreeable though rather of the kind called "slipshod."

Also a small manual of Roman and Grecian antiquities, by Joseph Salkeld, including a sketch or outline of the ancient mythology. Of course this little book does not pretend to compete or compare with the elaborate and masterly work of Profess or Anthon, but in its place it will be useful, and it supplies a sufficient amount of information on the subject of which it treats for those who care only to possess a general understanding of the matter. It may serve a good purpose, too, as a book of reference.

Also a small volume entitled The Juvenile Companion and Fireside Reader,' by the Rev. J. L. Blake. Its contents are historical and biographical anecdotes and selections in poetry. Their variety may be supposed from the fact that the number of pieces is no less than a hundred and sixty-eight.

Also a condensed History of the American Revolution,' in one small volume of 250 pages-originally published under the superintendence of Lord Brougham's Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.'

Also a volume of Beauties of English History,' similar in plan to that founded upon the history of France, and by the same compiler.

The serials in course of publication by this house are the Illuminated Shakspeare, Illustrated History of England and It has been Copland's Dictionary of Practical Medicine. rumored that the house was about commencing the publica tion of a weekly paper, but the story, we believe, has no foundation in truth.

ROBERT CARTER has published a handsome duodecimo of 450 pages, containing a Memorial of the Holy Land,' by the Rev. George Fisk, prebendary of Lichfield and minister of Christ Chapel, London. The reverend gentleman took or obtained leave of absence from his flock for eight months, which he employed in a journey through France, Italy, Austría, Turkey and the Holy Land, and the volume was written

and published, it appears, mainly for the purpose of letting his parishioners know what he had seen and how he had employed his time. Of course it is not to be supposed that Mr. Fisk has found any thing new to relate or to describe; but he describes old things in a pleasant, gentlemanly sort of way, and his volume has the merit of being in a great measure free from the tone of cant which clergymen are very apt to indulge in, or perhaps to think necessary, when they take pen in hand. Also, Life in New York,' a small volume of prettily written tales and sketches, strongly imbued with moral and rehgious purposes, and founded, as the preface declares, upon facts. The specific subjects of the tales are vice, crime, intemperance, destitution, prisons, beggary and the other dark features of metropolitan existence.

Also, A Message from God,' by the Rev. John Cumming. It appears to be a sermon of rather more than ordinary sermon length.

Also, Glory, Glory, Glory,' a little wolume of a hundred pages, which seems to be a sermon wrought into the form of a tale.

STANFORD AND SWORDS have published A Churchman's Reasons for his Faith and Practice,' by Rev. N. S. Richardson. Uninitiated persons may require to be told that Churchman,' in the mouth of the Rev. Mr. Richardson, means Episcopalian; the volume before us, therefore, is designed to be an argument in vindication or support of Episcopacy. We suppose that few persons who have paid attention to the subject of denominational or sectarian preferences will find any new views or arguments advanced in this production, but it seems to have merit as a clear and condensed exposition of the proofs ordinarily relied on by Episcopalian disputants.

EDWARD DUNIGAN has issued a pair of very pretty volumes, entitled, The Sister of Charity.' In one respect it is like the work last noticed-i's scope or design is denominational or sectarian-but in all other particulars it belongs to quite another category. In form it is a novel, and as a novel it has very considerable merit; the story is interesting, and is told with considerable vigor. Its denominational object is to exalt and glorify the faith of Rome, commonly called Papacy; and as is usually the case in novels or stories written to uphold any particular branch of the Universal Church, the advocates of Rome have it all their own way both in the developement of the plot and in the occasional argument. The author is Mrs. Anna H. Dorsey, of Baltimore.

CLARK AND AUSTIN have published the sacred poems of N. P. Willis in a handsome little pocket volume. It may be heretical to think so, but we do think, nevertheless, that Mr. Willis has found his best and truest inspiration in scriptural subjects, and that of all he has yet written, his best chance for immortality rests on some of those sacred poems.