J. J. Garth Wilkinson has just published in London The Human Body and its Connection with Man, illustrated by the Principal Organs, and it is dedicated to Mr. Henry James of New-York, the author of Moralism and Christianity. "My dear James," says the author, "this book is indebted to you for its appearance, for without you it would neither have been conceived nor executed. I dedicate it to you as a feeble tribute of friendship and gratitude that would gladly seek a better mode of expressing themselves. It may remind you of happy hours that we have spent together, and seem to continue some of the tones of our long correspondence. Valeat quantum! It could not lay its head upon the shelf without a last thought of affection directed to its foster parent. That prosperity may live with you and yours, and your great commonwealth, is the prayer of, my dear James, your faithful friend," &c.
Of new novels the most noticeable appear to be The Lady and the Priest, by Mrs. Maberly; The Tutor's Ward; Clare Abbey, by author of "The Dicipline of Life;" Marion Wethers, by Miss Jewsbury; Castle Deloraine, or the Ruined Peer, by Miss Priscilla Smith; and Quakerism, or the Story of My Life, a splenetic attack on the society of Friends.
The recent work of Dr. Gregory on Animal Magnetism has attracted much attention, and from some intimations in the papers we suspect it is to be criticised in Letters on the Truths contained in Popular Superstitions, with an Account of Mesmerism, by Dr. Herbert Mayo, F.R.S., to be published by Blackwood.
Two new works on the Apocalypse are to be added to the immense number already printed, for New-York publishers. We not long ago undertook to ascertain how many expositions of the great mystery had been written in this country, and paused at the sixty-fifth title-page. One of the forthcoming works is an ingenious composition by the Rev. Mr. James of the western part of this state, and the other (to be published by Mr. Dodd) is by a clergyman in Connecticut. Longmans advertise in London The Spiritual Exposition of the Apocalypse, as derived from the writings of Swedenborg, and illustrated and confirmed by ancient and modern authorities, by the Rev. Augustus Clissold, of Exeter College; and the Rivingtons have in press a Commentary on the Apocalypse by the Rev. Isaac Williams, of Trinity College. England indeed is quite as prolific of such works as the United States.
Mr. John Finchman, "master shipwright of her Majesty's Dockyard, at Portsmouth," has published a History of Naval Architecture, which is praised as a just exposition of the progress and supremacy of English ship-building. Our Mr. Collins could have furnished him, as illustrations for an additional and very interesting chapter, drawings of the Pacific and the Baltic, which would perhaps make the work a "just exposition of the supremacy" of American ship-building, of which this Mr. Finchman seems never to have been informed.