cently issued from the press of Messrs. WILLIAM D. TICKNOR AND COMPANY, Boston. We cannot affirm that the writer has added a great deal to the stores of information to be derived from the thousand-and-one books by previous American travellers; yet the epistolary style of these sketches is natural and pleasing, and the work may find many once-readers. . . . 'Landreth's Rural Register, and Almanac for 1848,' published by Messrs. LEA AND BLANCHARD, Philadelphia, seems to us a work well calculated to advance the interests of agriculture, and contribute to the enjoyments of rural life. An edition of thirteen thousand has already been exhausted; and arrangements have now been made which will secure a copy to every farmer in the land who may desire one. . . . Wɛ ought before to have mentioned the regular receipt of 'Littell's Living Age,' a valuable compendium of choice foreign literature, from the enterprising house of BERFORD AND COMPANY, corner of Vesey-street and the Astor-House. From the same publishers, who receive at the earliest moment all the latest French and English periodicals and newspapers, pictorial or otherwise, we derive the numbers of a very neat and entertaining little series, called 'The Playmate, a Pleasant Companion for Spare Hours;' and the well-printed original issue, (through Messrs GOULD, KENDALL AND LINCOLN, of Boston,) of Chambers' Miscellany of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge;' a series too popular abroad, and now too well known in America, to require farther notice than an announcement. ... WE have heretofore expressed ourselves warmly in favor of Vattemare's System of International Literary Exchanges, the details of, and donations under which, have found their way into so many American journals. To those readers who may not be familiar with Mr. VATTEMARE'S excellent plan, a pamphlet lying before us, from the press of Mr. WILLIAM T. JOHNSON, Stateprinter, Augusta, Maine, containing the 'Report and Resolves' of the legislature of that State upon this subject, will supply an important desideratum. Few medical students or practitioners can read the Discourses of Professor Ware on Medical Education and the Medical Profession, without deriving from them valuable and instructive lessons. The university of Cambridge has in Dr. WARE a gentleman who is evidently fully sensible of the great importance and dignity of the high office upon which he himself confers so much honor. . . . MESSRS. GREELEY AND MCELRATH, TribuneBuildings, have published, in a very neat form, a second edition of Ewbank's Historical Account of Hydraulic and other Machines for Raising Water,' with observations on various subjects connected with the mechanic arts; including the progressive developement of the steam-engine, in all and every of its accessories; the whole revised and improved, with numerous illustrative engravings. • 'Christ's Messenger, or the Missionary Memorial,' is the name given to a handsomelyappointed volume from the press of our friend Mr. EDWARD WALKER, Fulton-street. Its objects, which are well supported by the contributions of very many capable American male and female writers, are to invoke greater attention to missions, and to incite those engaged in them to renewed energy and devotion. Articles of a lighter character, but of collateral interest, pleasantly diversify the contents of the volume. A fine composition, printed in oil-colors, faces the title-page, and the book is otherwise prettily illustrated by fine wood-engravings printed in tints. ・・・ 'Artist-Life' is the title of a well-printed volume, recently published by the enterprising Messrs. APPLETON AND COMPANY, from the pen of Mr. H. T. TUCKERMAN. We are left but time and space to say at this present' that the volume contains sketches, some original and others compiled, of twenty-three American painters. It is by no means complete; and among the omissions we remark the names (or their absence rather) of PAGE and ELLIOTT. The sketches however were originally furnished to a Magazine, and it is possible that the author intends to continue them. We have received from Messrs. FIRTH, HALL AND POND, Broadway and Franklin-Square, a beautiful and happilyconceived work, entitled 'A Bouquet of Melody, and Musical Annual,' adorned with ten admirablyexecuted lithographs. The frontispiece is a finely-engraved portrait of that enchanting cancatrice, JENNY LIND. It contains also four female representatives of the Seasons Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter- in the first style of lithographic excellence; a drawing of 'The Dying Emigrant's Prayer,' a portrait of Miss JANE ANDREWS, and other pictorial designs, together with a choice collection of Songs, Waltzes, Quick-steps, Quadrilles and Polkas, by celebrated resident foreign and American composers, never before published. This work will be issued at a price within the means of all amateurs in the United States. A large sale may be confidently predicted for this truly admirable book. ・ ・ ・ We are favored by Messrs. BARTLETT AND WELFORD with a thick pamphlet-volume, containing Observations on the Aboriginal Monuments of the Mississippi Valley.' It is from the capable pen of Mr. E. G. SQUIER, and is taken from the second volume of the 'Transactions of the American Ethnological Society.' It is liberally illustrated, and describes the character of the ancient earth-works, and the structure, contents and purposes of the mounds, with notices of the minor remains of ancient art. We regret that it reaches us at so late an hour. -- EXPRESSLY INTENDED FOR THE YOUNG. THE PLAYMATE, A PLEASANT COMPANION FOR SPARE HOURS. Comprising Original Tales, Stories, and Ballads, Fables, Historical Anecdotes, Poetry, new and old, and Readings in Natural History. Each Part will be illustrated with from twelve to twenty Wood-cuts, from drawings by eminent Artists, and one large Engraving. CONTENTS OF PART I., FOR JULY. TRADITIONAL BALLADS. Edited by Fe- THE THREE SUNBEAMS. By R. H. Horne. With Two Pictures by E. Duncan. LITTLE FREDDY AND HIS FIDDLE. BY A. L. Grimm. Translated by Madame de Chatelain. With Four Pictures by E. H. Wehnert. CONTENTS OF PART THE MONTH OF MAY. By Mary Rob erts. TO THE SWALLOW. By Charlotte Smith. II., FOR AUGUST. THE WOODRANGER'S SON. By Ber- Charlotte Smith. With a Picture. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF BIRDS. By CONTENTS OF PART III., FOR SEPTEMBER. · A BALLAD OF ROBIN HOOD. With a THE BEECH. With Two Pictures. THE MADONNA DELLA SEDIA. With SPRING FLOWERS. The Snowdrop, Dai- ENIGMAS 2 and 3. With a Picture. cilian Vespers. With Three Pictures, THE HORSESHOE NAIL. From the German of M. M. Grimm. THE MONKEY A RICH HEAD AND & THE FISHERMAN AND THE FLOUNder, THE FOLLOWING PARTS WILL CONTAIN ARTICLES by MARY HOWITT, FELIX SUMMERLY, MRS. S. C. HALL, JOHN EDWARD TAYLOR, META TAYLOR, R. H. HORNE, MADAME DE Chatelain, AMBROSE MERTON, MRS. HARRIET MYRTLE, CHARLES BONER, MARY ROBERTS, BERTHOLD AUERBACH, HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN, MRS. JAMES WHITTLE, and the EDITOR. PICTURES of "The Wolf and the Lamb," by Mulready; "The Muscipula and Robinetta of Sir Joshua Reynolds; "The Church-stile" of Sir Augustus Callcott; and others from Original Drawings by Redgrove, Townsend, Elmore, Absolon, Goodall, Pickersgill, Wehnert, &c., &c. THE PLAYMATE will be published on the first of every month, in numbers of thirty-two and sometimes forty pages, at One dollar per annum, in advance. **A liberal discount to agents. CROSBY & NICHOLS, Publishers, 111 Washington Street, Boston. |