The Appletons will publish in a few weeks The Women of Early Christianity, one of that series of splendidly illustrated volumes composed of Our Saviour and his Apostles, The Women of the Bible, &c.
Braithwaite's Retrospect of Practical Medicine, in consequence of an arrangement just entered into, will hereafter be published by Stringer & Townsend, who will issue it with promptness, correctness, and general mechanical excellence.
James Munroe & Co. of Boston are proceeding regularly with Mr. Hudson's excellent edition of Shakspeare, and they have lately issued among several handsome volumes an edition of the works of George Herbert. They have in press The Philippics of Demosthenes, with notes critical and explanatory, by Professor M. J. Smead; The Camel Hunt, a narrative of personal adventures, by Joseph Warren Fabius; Companions of my Solitude, by the author of "Friends in Council," &c., &c.; The Greek Girl, and other poems, by James W. Simmons; Epitaphs, taken from Copp's Hill Burying Ground in Boston, by Thomas Bridgman; and Domestic Pets, their habits and management, with illustrative anecdotes, by Mrs. Loudon.
The second and concluding volume of the Life of Calvin, by Dr. Henry, has just been issued by Carter & Brothers, and it is quite equal in every respect to the first volume. Such a careful history was well-deserved of a Christian whom even Voltaire admitted to be one in the list of the world's twenty greatest men, and it was especially needed for the vindication of one who had in so extraordinary a degree been a subject of partisan hatred and calumny.
Dr. William R. Williams of this city has just published a volume of Lectures on the Lord's Prayer, (Gould & Lincoln, Boston,) which we shall notice more appropriately hereafter. At present we can only remark that it is a work of extraordinary merit, worthy of an author whose abilities and virtues render his name illustrious.