by Mr. Putnam, on the first of October, under the title of The Cairn, and it will contain original articles by George Aubrey, Lord Bishop of Jamaica:  the Right Rev. George W. Doane, the Right Rev. Alonzo Potter, the Hon. R.H.  Walworth, the Hon. J. Leander Starr, the Rev. C.S.  Henry, D.D., G.P.R.  James, Esq., N.P.  Willis, Esq., W. Gilmore Simms, Esq., Bayard Taylor, Esq., J.H.  Boker, Esq., Alfred B. Street, Esq., R. H. Stoddard, Esq., Miss Fredrika Bremer, Mrs. Sigourney, Mrs. Oakes Smith, Mrs. Embury, Mrs. Lewis, Mrs. Neal, Mrs. Willard, Mrs. Whitman, Miss Lynch, Miss Hunter, Miss Cheesebro’, and indeed nearly all the writers of her sex who have attained any eminence in our literary world.  The volume will be illustrated with nine engravings on steel, by Cheney and other eminent artists.

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THE REV.  WALTER COLTON has just published through A.S.  Barnes & Co.  “Three Years in California,” a journal of experiences and observations in the gold region, from the period when it first attracted the attention of the Atlantic cities.  Mr. Colton was some time alcade of Monterey, and he had in every way abundant opportunity to acquire whatever facts are deserving of preservation in history.  His “Ship and Shore,” “Constantinople and Athens,” “Deck and Port,” and other works, have illustrated his genial temper, shrewdness, and skill in description and character writing; and this book will increase his reputation for these qualities.  It contains portraits of Capt.  Sutter, Col.  Fremont, Mr. Gwin, Mr. Wright, Mr. Larkin, and Mr. Snyder, a map of the valley of the Sacramento, and several other engravings, very spirited in design and execution.

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MR. GEORGE STEPHENS, author of the “Manuscripts of Erdely,” has been struck by ill health and reduced to poverty, and an amateur play has been prepared for his benefit at the Soho Theater.  He wrote “The Vampire,” “Montezuma,” and “Martinuzzi.”

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The Gallery of Illustrious Americans, conducted by Mr. Lester, continues with every number to increase in interest.  The work is designed to embrace folio portraits, engraved by Davignon, from daguerreotypes by Brady, of twenty-four of the most eminent American citizens who have lived since the time of Washington.  The portraits thus far have been admirable for truthfulness and artistic effect.  It may be said that the only published pictures we have, deserving to be called portraits, of the historian Prescott, or Mr. Calhoun, or Colonel Fremont, are in this Gallery.  The great artist, naturalist, and man of letters, Audubon, is reflected here as he appears at the close of the battle, receiving the reverence of nations and ages.  In the biographical department Mr. Lester has evinced very eminent abilities for this kind of writing.  He seizes the prominent events of history and the strong points of character, and presents them