They went in and sat half an hour in the parlor together. But Hiram gave her no inkling of where he passed the evening. The next day our hero started for New-York. Of his adventures there, and the result of his interview with Elihu Joslin, we will speak in another chapter. KENTUCKY. The Dark and Bloody Ground of yore, Kentucky, thou art that once more. But where is he who gave the name-- The Indian? Lost like meteor's flame! Gone, as the bandits soon shall be, Who brought the name again to thee! LITERARY NOTICES LIFE AND LETTERS OF WASHINGTON IRVING. By Pierre Irving. Vol. II. New-York: G. P. Putnam. Boston: A. K. Loring. 1862. We have perused this second volume of 'Irving's Life and Letters' with even greater relish than the first, and return sincere thanks to its editor for the zeal and skill shown in his work. Such compilations, when not _very_ well done, are proverbially dull; it is therefore the highest compliment which we can pay to say that the work thus far is extremely interesting. We have in it, as in the brilliant memoir of some great man of the world, constantly recurring glimpses of world-wide celebrities, pictures of travel, bits of gossip of people in whom every body is interested, the whole interwoven with the kindliest and most genial traits of character. If Irving's works are essential to every library, it may be said with equal truth that the 'Life and Letters' are quite as inseparable from the works themselves. BAYARD TAYLOR'S WORKS. NORTHERN TRAVEL. New-York: G. P. Putnam. Boston: A. K. Loring. Within a few years the tide of English and of American travel has flown far more than of old over Scandinavia, a land so little known as to bear a prestige of strange mystery to many. Books of travel describing it are comparatively rare; it has not, like Germany or England, been 'done to death,' and the consequence is, that a good book describing it, like this of Taylor's, has a peculiar charm of freshness and of novelty. In it, as in every volume of his travels, Bayard Taylor gives us the impression that the country in question is his specialty and favorite, the result being a thoroughly genial account of all he saw. Readers not familiar with this series may be pleased to know that as regards typography, illustration, and binding, it is in all respects elegant, though furnished at an extremely moderate price. EDWIN BROTHERTOFT. By Theodore Winthrop. Boston: Ticknor & Fields. 1862.