'AMENITIES OF LITERATURE.' — This latest work of the elder D'ISRAELI will well reward perusal. A mind like our author's, full of all imaginable information connected with whatever theme he may have in hand, is incapable of producing a dull work. A more industrious bibliopolist scarcely ever put pen to paper. His facility of composition and the copiousness of his illustrations will often remind the reader of old BURTON. The present work treats of authors, scattered through all the ranks of society, among the governors and the governed; the objects of their pursuits, as usually carried on by their peculiar idiosyncrasy; and the secret connexion of the incidents of their lives with their intellectual habits.' He has developed that predisposition which is ever working in characters of native force; their faculties and their failures; the fortunes which they have shaped for themselves; the history in short of the mind of the individual, which cannot be found in biographical dictionaries, and which constitutes the psychology of genius. The work is in two volumes; and commends itself scarcely less by the neatness which marks its externals - a characteristic, let us add, of books from the press of the publishers, the Messrs. LANGLEY- than by the voluminousness and variety of its contents.

THE UNITED STATES' LITERARY ADVERTISER AND PUBLISHERS' CIRCULAR' is the title of a neatly printed register of literature, the fine arts, etc., issued on the fifteenth of every month by the Messrs. LANGLEY, Chatham-street. It is devoted to the interests of American booksellers and publishers, and is designed as a medium of communication between the several members of the trade. It comprises not only the advertisements and announcements of the several publishing houses, but includes an unusual amount of literary intelligence respecting new works in preparation, American and foreign, together with other occasional information connected with literature, etc. Beside being indispensable to every bookseller, it will prove, it is believed, scarcely less acceptable to literary men, members of book societies, public libraries, etc., throughout the country.

BUNYAN'S 'HOLY WAR.'-The American Sunday School Union have judged wisely in the publication of this celebrated work, which next to the Pilgrim's Progress' is the most widely known of any production of its author. The interest which its records excites seems to be ever new; as those may prove, by reading the book now who have perused it years ago. The warfare waged between the powers of Good and Evil, for the regaining of the Metropolis of the World, or the losing and taking again of the town of Mansoul,' will repay a score of perusals, and the last shall scarcely be less interesting than the first. A large number of good engravings illustrate the text of the American edition, which is on sale in New-York at Mr. J. C MEEKS's, 152 Nassau-street.

EDUCATION.Our thanks are due to JAMES BROWN, Esq., of Oswego, for a 'Lecture on Education,' delivered before the Mechanics' and Manufacturers' Association of that flourishing town in July last, and now published by request. We must do the writer the justice to say that he treats a subject which ninety-nine times in a hundred is the theme of labored Dullness, in a manner the most comprehensive; in language simple yet always striking, and often eloquent; enforcing his positions by apposite comparisons and felicitous illustrations; and pursuing his theme with evident knowledge and reach of thought into its most important ramifications. We are glad to have taken up this not very enticing little pamphlet, for it has that within which passeth show' in the matter of paper and typography.

FRENCH AND ENGLISH READING-BOOK.'-This is a little volume consisting of stories from real life, with marked idioms and translations, by Miss ORAM, with signs for reading applied to the French, by A. J. FRONTIN, a professor of modern languages. Idioms or peculiarities of expression do not come within the province of grammarians, and are only noticed singly in dictionaries. As they can only be taught by expression, in the use of language, this little book, especially prepared for the purpose, can scarcely fail to be of great use to the learner. It is a neat little volume, published by Mr. WILLIAM A. COLMAN, Broadway.

THE RETROSPECT: or Review of Providential Mercies, with Anecdotes of Various Characters,' is the title of a volume of some two hundred and fifty pages, which we find on our table from the press of Mr. ROBERT CARTER, 58 Canal-street. It is from the pen of an English gentleman, formerly a lieutenant in the Royal Navy, and now a minister in the Established Church. When we mention that the American issue is from the seventeenth London edition, our readers will infer that it must be a work of some attraction; and in this method of judging they are equally privileged with ourselves; since arduous professional labors have left us no moment for its perusal.

NEW POEMS BY MRS. SIGOURNEY.-We receive in season to notice but not to review a handsome volume from the press of the Brothers HARPER, entitled 'Pocahontas, and other Poems,' by Mrs. L. H. SIGOURNEY. The mere announcement of a work from this lady's pen will secure the ready attention of her countrymen to its pages; but our distant readers may desire to know more of our old contributor's latest offering, and that desire it will be our aim hereafter to gratify.