Over the Cliffs. By Charlotte Chanter. Boston. Ticknor & Fields. 16mo. pp. 400. $1.00.

The Greatness and Decline of César Birotteau. From the French of Honoré de Balzac. Translated by O.W. Wight and F.B. Goodrich. New York. Rudd & Carleton. 12mo. pp. 387. $1.25.