Fisher’s River (North Carolina) Scenes and Characters.  By “Skitt.”  Illustrated by John McLenan.  New York.  Harper & Brothers. 16mo. pp. viii., 269. $1.00.

Twelve Years of a Soldier’s Life in India:  being Extracts from the Letters of the late Major W.S.R.  Hodson, B.A., Trinity College, Cambridge; First Bengal European Fusileers, Commandant of Hodson’s Horse.  Including a Personal Narrative of the Siege of Delhi and Capture of the King and Princes.  Edited by his Brother, the Rev. George H. Hodson, M.A., Senior Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.  From the Third and Enlarged English Edition.  Boston.  Ticknor & Fields. 16mo. pp. 444. $1.00.

Religious and Moral Sentences culled from the Works of Shakspeare, compared with Sacred Passages drawn from Holy Writ.  From the English Edition, with an Introduction by Frederic D. Huntington.  Boston and Cambridge.  James Munroe & Co. 16mo. pp. 226. 75 cts.

Avolio; a Legend of the Island of Cos.  With Poems, Lyrical, Miscellaneous, and Dramatic.  By Paul H. Hayne.  Boston.  Ticknor & Fields. 16mo. pp. xii., 244. 75 cts.

Wild Southern Scenes; a Tale of Disunion and Border War.  By J.B.  Jones, Author of “Wild Western Scenes,” etc.  Philadelphia T.B.  Peterson & Co. 12mo. pp. 502. $1.25.

Mary Staunton; or, The Pupils of Marvel Hall.  By the Author of “Portraits of my Married Friends.”  New York.  D. Appleton & Co. 12mo. pp. 398. $1.25.

Reminiscences of Rufus Choate, the Great American Advocate.  By Edward G. Parker.  New York.  Mason Brothers. 16mo. pp. 522. $1.50.

The Art of Elocution, exemplified in a Simplified Course of Exercises.  By Henry N. Day, Author of “Elements of the Art of Rhetoric.”  Revised Edition.  Cincinnati.  Moore, Wilstach, Keys, & Co. 12mo. pp. 384. $1.25.

True Womanhood; a Tale.  By John Neal.  Boston.  Ticknor & Fields. 12mo. pp. 487. $1.25.

The Queen of Hearts.  By Wilkie Collins, Author of “The Dead Secret,” “After Dark,” etc.  New York.  Harper & Brothers. 12mo. pp. 472. $1.00.

Home and Abroad; a Sketch-Book of Life, Scenery, and Men.  By Bayard Taylor.  New York.  G.P.  Putnam. 12mo. pp. vi., 500. $1.25.

The Virginians; a Tale of the Last Century.  By W.M.  Thackeray.  With Illustrations by the Author.  New York.  Harper & Brothers. 8vo. pp. iv., 411. $2.00.

The Prairie Traveller.  A Handbook for Overland Expeditions—­With Maps, Illustrations, and Itineraries of the Principal Routes between the Mississippi and the Pacific.  By Randolph B. Marcy, Captain U.S.A.  Published by Authority of the War Department.  New York.  Harper & Brothers. 16mo. pp. vi., 340. $1.00.

Book of Plays for Home Amusement.  Being a Collection of Original, Altered, and Selected Tragedies, Plays, Dramas, Comedies, Farces, Burlesques, Charades, Lectures, etc., carefully arranged and specially adapted for Private Representation, with Full Directions for Performance.  By Silas S. Steele, Dramatist.  Philadelphia.  George G. Evans. 12mo. pp. 352. $1.00.