FRENCH PERIODICALS.--A Parisian correspondent of the London _Literary Gazette_ observes, that if we exclude the _Revue des Deux Mondes_--a, sort of cross between the English _Quarterly_ and the monthlies,--if we exclude also a few dry scientific periodicals, and one or two theatrical or musical newspapers, we shall seek in vain for any _Quarterly_, or _Blackwood_, or _Art Union_, or _Literary Gazette_; and that even the periodicals and journals which make the nearest approach to the weekly, monthly, or quarterly publications of England, are either wretched compilations, or abominably ill-written and ill-printed. The _feuilleton_ system of the newspapers is no doubt the principal cause of the periodical literature being in such an extremely low condition. But though literary and scientific periodicals be, generally speaking, vile in quality, they can at least boast of quantity. There are, it seems, not fewer than 300 of one kind or another published in Paris alone. Among them are 44 devoted to medicine, chemistry, natural science, &c.; 42, trade, commerce, railways, advertisements; 34, fashions; 30, law; 22, administration, public works, roads, bridges, mines; 19, archæology, history, biography, geography, numismatics; 19, public instruction and education; 15, agriculture and horticulture; 8, bibliography and typography; 10, army and navy; 7, literary; the rest theatrical, musical, or of a character too hybrid to be classified. * * * * * THE ILLUSTRATED DOMESTIC BIBLE, edited by the Rev. Ingram Cobbin, seems to us decidedly the best family Bible ever offered to the trade in this country. It is printed with remarkable correctness and beauty; illustrated with a very large number of maps and engravings on wood; and its notes, written with much condensation and perspicuity, are such as are necessary for the understanding of the text. Indeed, all that is added to the letter of the Bible is legitimate and necessary _illustration_. It is being published in a series of twenty-five numbers, at twenty-five cents each, by S. Hueston, publisher of _The Knickerbocker_, Nassau-street. * * * * *