We could not allow the Great Exhibition to close without making a Note of it: we have therefore little room this week for Notes on Books. We must, however, take notice of six additional volumes of the _National Illustrated Library_, which we have received. Of three of these we may well speak briefly, as they form the Second, Third, and Fourth Volumes of _Boswell's Life of Johnson_, to which we formerly directed the attention of our readers. _The Book of English Songs from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century_ is a very well selected volume. The Editor's endeavour to present a fair view of this branch of our National Literature has been attended with success, and the book will, we have no doubt, be a popular one. _The Orbs of Heaven_, by Mr. Mitchel, the director of the Cincinnati Observatory, is intended to furnish a popular exposition of the great Discoveries and Theories of Modern Astronomy, and to exhibit the structure of the universe so far as revealed by the mind of man. The book is a reprint of a series of lectures delivered in the hall of Cincinnati College, with such success as to have led to the establishment of the Cincinnati Observatory--need we say more? The sixth volume is a very interesting but painful one, _The Mormons, or Latter-Day Saints, with Memoirs of the Life and Death of Joseph Smith, the American Mahomet_. How startling is the contrast in the subject-matter of these two books--the one rich in a display of the infinite wisdom of the Creator, the other depicting most vividly the foolishness of man. The new volume of Bohn's _Standard Library_ is the second of Dr. Neander's _History of the Planting and Training of the Christian Church by the Apostles, with the Author's Final Additions; and his Antignostikus, or Spirit of Tertullian_, which completes, we believe, the series of translations from the writing of this learned German divine. _The metamorphoses of Ovid, literally translated into English Prose_, forms the new volume of Bohn's _Classical Library_, and the Translator, Mr. Riley, has endeavoured to render the work more inviting to the scholar, and more intelligible to those who are unversed in classical literature, by numerous explanatory notes calculated to throw considerable light upon the origin and meaning of some of the traditions of heathen mythology. It will be seen by our advertising columns that Messrs. Puttick and Simpson exhibit a numerous List of important Sales of Books, Manuscripts, Autographs, &c., which they have in preparation for the ensuing season. BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE. JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF DUBLIN. Vol. I. Part I. (One or more copies.) THE ANTIQUARY. 8vo. Edinburgh, 1816. Vols. I. and II.