Mr. Carlyle's Life of John Stirling is in the press of Phillips & Sampson of Boston, and will soon be issued. From the same house we are to have Memoirs of Sarah Margaret Fuller, Marchesa d' Ossoli, edited by Ralph Waldo Emerson and William H. Channing; and a new and very beautiful edition of Robinson Crusoe, with new illustrations.
The American annuals for the present season are not very numerous. Mr. Walker, of Fulton-street, has published The Odd Fellow's Offering, which contains excellent contributions by Mr. Simms, Mr. Saunders, Mrs. Hewitt, Mrs. Kirkland, Mrs. Kimball, Mrs. Oakes Smith, and other writers; and Lippencott, Grambo & Co., of Philadelphia, have published the handsomest book of its class for the year, in The Iris, with unique and beautiful illustrations from drawings by Captain Eastman, U.S.A., whose wife writes a large portion of the contents.
Vagamundo, or the Attaché in Spain, by John E. Warren, is a very delightful book illustrative of society, scenery, &c., in "old, renowned, romantic Spain," where the author was attached to the American legation. As Mr. Warren while abroad was a correspondent of The International, it may be suspected that we have some prejudice in his favor—which indeed is very true—and therefore we inform our readers that of the English edition of this work, and of the American edition, all the critics have given such opinions as delight an author and bring money to his publisher. Mr. Warren is the author of Para, or Scenes and Adventures on the Banks of the Amazon, lately published by Putnam. It is his vocation to travel and make books, as these two performances very plainly show. (Charles Scribner.)
Mr. Charles Astor Bristed, whose very clever sketches of American Society we have copied from month to month from Fraser's Magazine, has in the press of Putnam a work entitled Five Years in an English University. Mr. Putnam has in press also The Shield, by Miss Fenimore Cooper, and The Monuments of Central and Western America, by Dr. Hawks, besides several beautiful souvenir volumes, for the coming holidays, which embrace contributions by the best authors and artists of the country.
Mr. Simms, has just published (by A. Hart), a new novel under the title of Catherine Walton, which is equal to his best productions. The scene is in South Carolina, during the Revolution.