Eighth Annual Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of the State of New York.  Transmitted to the Legislature January 8,1882.  Albany.  C. Van Benthuysen, Printer. 8vo. pp. 133.

Nolan’s System for Training Cavalry Horses.  By Kenner Garrard, Captain Fifth Cavalry, U.S.A.  With Twenty-Four Lithographed Illustrations.  New York.  D. Van Nostrand. 12mo. pp. 114. $1.50.

The Koran; commonly called the Alcoran of Mohammed.  Translated into English immediately from the Original Arabic.  By George Sale, Gent.  To which is prefixed The Life of Mohammed; or, The History of that Doctrine which was begun, carried on, and finally established by him in Arabia, and which has subjugated a Larger Portion of the Globe than the Religion of Jesus has set at Liberty.  Boston.  T.O.H.P.  Burnham. 12mo. pp. 472. $1,00.

A Strange Story.  By Sir E. Bulwer Lytton.  With Engravings on Steel by F.O.  Freeman, after Drawings by J.N.  Hyde, from Designs by Gardner A. Fuller.  Boston.  Gardner A. Fuller. 12mo. pp. 387. paper, 25 cts. muslin, $1.00.