Mediæval Churches of England, has been put forth by
Mr. Charles Wickes, the architect. An officer in the
United States army has preserved several pictorial traits
of the now fast-expiring usages of the American Indians,
in what he calls an Aboriginal Portfolio. A very pretty
book of Trees, Plants, and Flowers, descriptive of their
beauties, uses, and influences, has been compiled by
Mrs. R. Lee. A number of original views and drawings,
by Mr. W. H. Bartlett, have been employed in
illustration of tlie very interesting as well as picturesque
subject of the Pilgrim Fathers, the founders of New
England in the reign of James I. A quaint little
translation has appeared of the ingenious "Northern Story"
of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. called The Wanderings
of Persiles and Sigismunda. Gray's delightful and
ever-welcome Elegy has been put forth with many
graceful woodcuts. Mr. Elwes has published a Sketcher's
Tour Round the World, in which that very extensive
grand tour is expressed in a series of graphic drawings,
and of literary sketches not less clever. Professnr
Forbes of Edinburgh has described, also with both
pencil and pen, in a splendid volume, Norway and its
Glaciers. The Life of Martin Luther has been depicted
in fifty designs by Gustav König, and in fifty brief
chapters of explanatory letter-press appended to the
designs. Uncle Tom's Cabin has appeared with more
than a hundred and fifty admirably-executed woodcuts
from original designs. A newly illustrated edition of the
several stories in Miss Martineau's Playfellow has been
issued for nursery libraries; to which also there have
been contributed a vast number of children's books, such
as (to mention only a few) All is not Gold that Glitters;
Pretty Poll, or Parrot's own History; The Ice King
and the Sweet South Wind; Natural History in Stories;
The Pretty Plate; The Lark and the Linnet; The
Adventures of a Dog and a Good Dog too; The Picttire
Pleasure-Book, and Stories from the Classics. Mr.
Bohn has commenced a series of British Classics with
the first volume of a new edition of Gibbon's Decline and
Fall, chiefly founded on that of Guizot. Mrs. Hall has
published a new edition of Pilgrimages to English
Shrines. Mr. Robertson Dick has issued, with slight
accompanying notices in letter-press, a series of
carefully-executed lithographs of Inscriptions and Devices
in the Beauchamp Tower, that chamber in the greatest
of our English prisons with whose carved and indented
walls are associated the silent and weary sufferings of
some of the greatest men in our English history. A
popular edition of Sir Gardner Wilkinson's Familiar
Account of the Ancient Egyptians, with upwards of five
hundred neatly-executed woodcuts, has been revised and
abridged from his larger work. A number of the most
famous minor poems in the language has been collected
into a Book of Celebrated Poems Unabridged; to
which several artists have contributed original designs.
A series of descriptive sketches, with a quantity of
personal anecdotes, of Homes of American Statesmen, form
a volume which derives much additional value from the
evident faithfulnesss of the simple and primitive houses
pourtrayed. Mr. Baker illustrates, with vivid-coloured
prints, his adventures with The Rifle and the Hound in
Ceylon. The half-truth half-fiction of Lorenzo Benoni,
has been illustrated by "J. B."; and thirty old engravings
of Turner's and Girtin's Picturesque Views have
been published in a volume by Mr. Hogarth, as specimens
of the book-illustrations of sixty years since.

To pass from illustrated books to stories, less abundant
in this Christmas month than they generally are, we
have to record that the author of an imaginary
biography of the first Mrs. Milton has published a tale of
the great plague, called Cherry and Violet: that a story
called John, or is a Count in the Hand worth Two
Cousins in the Bush, has been translated from the
Swedish of Miss Emilie Carlen; that a tale about
Christmas Day, and how it was Spent has had the
additional attraction of some humorous designs by Phiz;
that "a City Autobiography," called Maud, has
appeared; that sundry chapters of Indian experience have
been republished with the title of The Wetherbys,
Father and Son; that a cheap edition of the Diary of
a Physician has been completed; that Mrs. Crowe has
written a story called Linny Lockwood; that from the
author of "Brampton Rectory" we have received The
Youth and Womanhood of Helen Tyrrell; and finally,
that the circulating libraries iiave received, in the
orthodox three-volnme form, a novel called Alice
Wentworth, another by the author of "Ninfa," entitled
Charles Stanley, and a third by the Hon. Henry Coke
descriptive of High and Low.

In the department of miscellaneous books the list of
new publications is somewliat more lengthy. Mr. Collett
Saunders has translated the Institutes of Justinian with
an English introduction and notes. The Hon. Ferdinand
St. John has published his Rambles in Germany,
France. Italy, and Russia, in search ot sport. The
Priest and the Huguenot has been translated from the
French of M. Bungener to illustrate the subject of
religious persecution in the age of Louis Quinze. A
series of delightful Agricultural Essays by the late Mr.
Gisborne has been reprinted from the "Quarterly
Review." The Basis of Moral Science has been laid
down and expounded by Mr. Colston in six essays on
virtue, conscience, and freedom. Two editions of the
poet Young have appeared, one of all the Works with a
life by Doctor Doran, and the other of the Night
Thoughts with an essay by Mr. Gilfillan. The first
volume of an English translation of M. Lamartine's
History of the Constituent Assembly has appeared even
before the original work in Paris. Travels on the
Amazon and Rio Negro has been published by Mr.
Alfred Wallace, with valuable scientific observations, and
an account of the native tribes. Mr. Robert Montgomery
has collected, in one large volume of double columned
print, his Poetical Works. The author of a book lately
published on the Danubian Principalities has described
Anadol, the Last Home of the Faithful. Doctor
Theophilus Thompson has collected his Clinical Lectures on
Pulmonary Consumption. Mr. C. Knight has collected
a series of biographical and critical sketches of the past
into two small volumes of Once upon a Time. Mr.
John Richard Pickmore has put forth a very large and
closely printed quarto on Being Analytically Described
in its Chief Respects and Principal Truths. Mr.
Macaulay has made a selection of his Speeches, impelled
thereto by an unauthorised publication of the reports
in Hansard. An American traveller, Mr G. S. Hillard,
has described Six Months in Italy. Mr. Mansfield
Parkyns has published two remarkable volumes descriptive
of Life in Abyssinia. The Baroness Blaze de Bury
has written Memoirs of the Princess Palatine of Bohemia.
A volume has been published on Auckland, the Capital
of New Zealand, and the Counttry Adjacent. Mr.
Newman Hall has given the title of The Land of the Forum
and the Vatican to his thoughts and sketches during
an Easter pilgrimage to Rome. The Rev. Alfred
Edersheim has translated, from the German, Doctor
Chalybäus's Historical Development of Speculative
Philosophy from Kant to Hegel. Mr. Henry T.
Tuckerman, an American traveller, has written an
account of A Month in England. Mr. John C. Templer
has given to the public three volumes filled with Private
Letters of Sir James Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak,
narrating the events of his life from 1838 to the present
time. Mr. Jerdan has, in a fourth volume, concluded
his Autobiography. Mr. Craigie Robertson has
commenced a History of the Christian Church in a volume
which carries the subject to the Pontificate of Gregory
the Great, The route From May Fair to Marathon has
been described. Mr. Doubleday has issued a new and
enlarged edition of his book on Population and Food.
The Speeches of the Duke of Wellington, of which
the arrangement was begun with the Duke's sanction by
the late Colonel Gurwood, have been published by Mr.
Murray. A new edition of the Letters of Rachel Lady
Russell, with many new and charming letters, has been
issued by Lord John Russell; who has also sent forth
the fifth and sixth volumes of Moore's Diary. The
Comedies of Douglas Jerrold have appeared as the
seventh volume of his collected works. The author
of the poem called the "Roman" has published part the
first of a quasi-dramatic poem entitled Balder, not
however on the ancient Northern hero, but on a modern
poet and worthy of that name. And finally a veiy
severe critic has addressed to "the new generation" a
literary and political biography entitled The Right
Honourable Benjamin Disraeli, M.P.