D. Appleton and Company have published an interesting volume of American biography, entitled _Lives of Eminent Literary and Scientific Men_, by JAMES WYNNE, M.D., comprising memoirs of Franklin, President Edwards, Fulton, Chief Justice Marshall, Rittenhouse, and Eli Whitney. They are composed in a tone of great discrimination and reserve, and scarcely in a single estimate come up to the popular estimation of the character described. Doctor Franklin and President Edwards, especially, are handled in a manner adapted to chill all enthusiasm which may have been connected with their names. Nor does the scientific fame of Robert Fulton gather any new brightness under the author’s hands. This cool dissection of the dead may not be in accordance with the public taste, but in justice to the author, it should be borne in mind that he is a surgeon by profession. The same house has issued an edition of _Cicero’s Select Orations_, with Notes, by Professor E.A. JOHNSON, in which liberal use has been made of the most recent views of eminent German philologists. The volume is highly creditable to the industry and critical acumen of the Editor, and will prove a valuable aid to the student of the classics. _Lady Willoughby’s Diary_ is reprinted by A.S. Barnes and Co., New York—the first American edition of a volume unrivaled for its sweetness and genuine pathos. _The Young Woman’s Book of Health_, by Dr. WILLIAM A. ALCOTT, published by Tappan, Whittemore, and Co., Boston, is an original summary of excellent physiological precepts, expressed with the simplicity and distinctness for which the author is celebrated. _Songs of Labor and Other Poems_ is the title of a new volume by JOHN G. WHITTIER, published by Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, Boston, containing the spirited lyrics which have already gained a large share of favor in the public journals. _Poems of the Heart_, by GEORGE W. NICHOLSON, (G. S. Appleton, Philadelphia), is the “last production of the author’s boyhood,” and exhibits the most decided marks of its origin. _The Mariner’s Vision_ is the title of a Poem by T.L. DONNELLY, Philadelphia, evidently written with little preparation, but showing some traces of poetic talent, which may ripen into excellence at a future day. A beautiful reprint of _Æsop’s Fables_, edited by Rev. THOMAS GARNES, with more than Fifty Illustrations from TENNIAL’S designs has been issued by Robert B. Collins, New York, in a style of superb typography, which can not fail to command the admiration of the amateur.