This beautifully printed and illustrated volume resembles very much, in its appearance, the elegant edition of Gray’s “Elegy,” published several years since in London. We can say no more in praise of its typography and embellishments. The poem itself possesses considerable merit. Doctor Palmer was attached to the Exploring Expedition which returned to this country last summer from the southern seas, and “Thulia” is founded on incidents which occurred on the war-ship Peacock, and the schooner Flying Fish, while in the Antarctic ocean. The verse is free and melodious, and the ideas and illustrations generally appropriate and poetical. We quote a lyric that will convey to the reader a just idea of the poet’s style. ANTARCTIC MARINER’S SONG. Sweetly, from the land of roses, Sighing comes the northern breeze; And the smile of dawn reposes, All in blushes, on the seas. Now within the sleeping sail, Murmurs soft the gentle gale. Ease the sheet, and keep away: Glory guides us South to-day! Yonder, see! the icy portal Opens for us to the Pole; And, where never entered mortal, Thither speed we to the goal. Hopes before and doubts behind, On we fly before the wind. Steady, so—now let it blow! Glory guides, and South we go. Vainly do these gloomy borders, All their frightful forms oppose; Vainly frown these frozen warders, Mailed in sleet, and helmed in snow. Though, beneath the ghastly skies, Curdled all the ocean lies, Lash we up its foam anew— Dash we all its terrors through! Circled by these columns hoary, All the field of fame is ours; Here to carve a name in story, Or a tomb beneath these towers. Southward still our way we trace, Winding through an icy maze. Luff her to—there she goes through! Glory leads, and we pursue. The notes appended to the poem contain the most interesting account of the expedition that has yet been given to the public. * * * * * _Scenes in the Holy Land: one volume square duodecimo. Philadelphia, American Sunday School Union._ This work is founded on, or rather is a free translation of, the “Scènes Evangéliques” of Napoleon Roussel, published a year or two since in Paris. It contains an account of the principal incidents in the lives of the Savior and of the great apostle of the Gentiles, written with singular simplicity and perspicuity, and illustrated with numerous etchings by a clever French artist. It is published, we believe, as a juvenile gift book for the holiday season. * * * * * _Ladies’ Annual Register for 1843. New York, S. Colman._