LOUISIANA: ITS COLONIAL HISTORY AND ROMANCE. By Charles Gayarre. Harper Brothers.

This work is composed of four lectures, delivered before the People's Lyceum in NewOrleans; one edition of which has already been given to the world, and so favorably received, as as to encourage the author to continue his labor; and the present new octavo edition by the Messrs. Harper contains six lectures of increased interest, bringing the narrative down to the middle of the 18th century. Mr. Gayarre is a graceful and lively writer, and has been led on by public encouragement until he fairly takes rank among popular American authors. Indeed, his subject is full of interest, and abounding with romance, although there are not a few who deny the latter every thing American.

PHYSICO-PHYSIOLOGICAL RESEARCHES on the Dynamics of Magnetism, Electricity, Heat, Light, Crystallization, and Chemism, in their relations to Vital Force. By Baron Charles Von Reichenback. The complete work from the German. Second Edition. By John Ashburner, M.D. J. S. Redfield, New-York.

In our number for March, 1847, we gave a review of this extraordinary work of Reichenback, which had then not attracted the attention in the scientific world which has been drawn to it. The numerous experiments which he made with magnets, and the extraordinary results which followed, explaining by natural causes many supposed supernatural results. threw a new light upon the power and properties of magnetism. The present admirable translation, published by Redfield, with cuts, possesses very great interest.

WILHELM MEISTER'S APPRENTICESHIP AND TRAVELS. From the German of Goethe. New Edition Revised. Ticknor, Reed & Fields, Boston.

The taste for German literature in this country is continually on the increase, not only from the very considerable number of German settlements where the" Muttersprache" is retained, but from the gradual spread of acquaintance with the great German authors. Goethe has won continually upon public favor; and these translations by Carlyle, who claims to have imported Goethe into the English language, are very attractive. The style of the publication is every way worthy of the matter, and is distinguished by that clearness of typography, which characterize the productions of Messrs. Ticknor, Reed & Fields.

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND MEMORIALS OF CAPTAIN OBADIAH CONGER, for fifty years Mariner and Ship-master from the Port of New-York. By Rev. Henry T. Cheever. Harper Brothers.

This memoir of an old salt possesses great interest for the lovers of adventure, apart from the false glare and incongruous conceits that characterize the writings of the author.

SECOND-LOVE: OR, THE WORLD'S OPINION. By Martha Martel. G. P. Putnam, 155 Broadway.

This is an American story, whereof the object seems to be to prove, that in the public mind, weakness is erroneously confounded with tenderness, and want of character with gentleness; in short, that the female character is very generally misunderstood or not properly appreciated, and the well-sustained narrative is intended to correct such impressions.

NATURE AND BLESSEDNESS OF CHRISTIAN PURITY. By Rev. R. S. Foster, with an Introduction by Edmund S. Janes, D.D., one of the Bishops of the Methodist Epi scopal Church. New-York: Harper Brothers.

This able work will be an acceptable addition to the religious literature of the country. It is neatly and cheaply printed; with a portrait of

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Translated from the Murphy & Co., Baltimore.

THE EDUCATION OF A DAUGHTER. By Archbishop Fenelon. French; to which are added, Fenelon's "Epistle," &c. This great work of the celebrated Fenelon should be widely circulated; and the beautiful and cheap style in which it is got out by Messrs. Murphy & Co., is calculated to promote that desirable object.

CURRAN AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES. By Charles Phillips, F.R.S. Harper Brothers.

The time has come, when in England, the celebrated Irish patriots, of whom this work gives an account, are more justly appreciated. But the book is full of interest, treating as it does, of the brilliant galaxy of genius who flourished at the time of Ireland's sacrifice. It confines itself, however, more to the personal than the political history.

HURRY-GRAPHS: OR, SKETCHES OF SCENERY, CELEBRITIES AND SOCIETY. Taken from By N. P. Willis. Charles Scribner.

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Any person who glances at this title, will, before reaching the name, say “it is by Willis;" and the book does not depart from the author's peculiarities. Its title is justi. fied, on the ground that the papers are the "editorials" of the Home Journal. Those who take that paper are forearmed, and those who do not, are forewarned.

A GREEK GRAMMAR for the use of High-Schools and Universities. By Philip Batman. Revised and enlarged by his son, Alexander Butman. Translated from the German, by Edward Robinson. Harper Brothers.

This great work needs but an announcement, to have the substantial and correct edition now offered to the public properly appreciated.

AMERICAN ARCHEOLOGICAL RESEARCHES. No. I.-The Serpent Symbol, and the Worship of the Reciprocal Principles of Nature in America. By E. G. Squier, A. M., Member of the British Archæological Association, &c. George P. Putnam. This is a work of extraordinary scientific interest, and we have laid it aside for a future extended article. The opportunities and abilities of Mr. Squier have enabled him to throw a world of light upon the subject. Mr. Schoolcraft, in his great work upon the Indians, regards the Serpent Symbols of America as a proof of the Eastern origin of the Indians. Mr. Squier does entirely agree in that view. The illustrations are numerous, and the work well got up.