* * * * * _A Kiss for a Blow. By Henry C. Wright. One volume, 18mo. Published at 31 North Fifth Street, Philadelphia._ _Emma, or the Lost Found. One volume, 18mo. New York, Dayton & Newman: Philadelphia, Hogan & Thompson._ _The Great Secret, or How to be Happy. One volume, 18mo. New York, Dayton & Newman: Philadelphia, Hogan & Thompson._ These are short stories, for children and youth, written with simplicity and in a genial and loving spirit, and in every way superior to the books of the class written before the last few years. * * * * * _A Collection of the Promises of Scripture, under their proper heads, representing the Blessings promised, the Duties to which Promises are made, with an Appendix and Introduction, by Samuel Clarke, D. D. One volume, 32mo. New York, D. Appleton & Co. Philadelphia, Herman Hooker._ This little work is well known to Christians, and to others its title will convey an accurate idea of its character. The present edition is doubtless the most beautiful that has been published. * * * * * EDITOR’S TABLE. We have, in manuscript, a biographical sketch of the late Commodore Perry, from the pen of Mr. Cooper, which it was our intention to publish in December, but, it proving too long for a single number, we shall carry it over to the next year, that its parts may appear in the same volume. In this sketch Mr. Cooper has gone into the critical details concerning the battle of Lake Erie, which were not thought proper to be introduced into his great naval work, as they belong to biography rather than to history. Mr. Cooper, we learn, has delayed publishing his answer to the Lectures of Burgess, the Biography of Mackenzie, and his account of the late arbitration in New York, in order not to anticipate the appearance of the biographical sketch, which, while it is critical rather than controversial, will necessarily cover much of the same ground. We understand that the “Answers” will immediately follow the appearance of the article in our magazine. The naval story entitled “Harry Cavendish,” will be brought to a close in our next number, and we shall not hereafter commence the publication of any article which may not be completed in two or three months. A new edition of the works of Jonathan Edwards will be published within a few weeks, by Jonathan Leavitt and John F. Trow, of New York, in four very large octavo volumes. Edwards was the greatest metaphysician of the eighteenth century—and his name, first and highest in our literary history, can never be spoken but with pride by an American. The only copies of his writings for sale in this country for several years have been from the English press.