"_The Young Trail Hunters_; or, The Wild Riders of the Plains." By S. W. COZZENS. Lee & Sheppard, Boston. "_Vine and Olive_; or, Young America in Spain and Portugal." By W. T. ADAMS (Oliver Optic). The same. "_The National Ode._" By BAYARD TAYLOR. W. F. Gill & Co., Boston. "_Hold the Fort._" By P. P. BLISS. The same. "_The Poetical and Prose Writings of Charles Sprague._" A. Williams & Co., Boston. "_Corinne_; or, Italy. A Love Story." By MME. DE STAEL. T. B. Peterson & Bro., Philadelphia. "_Frank Nelson in the Forecastle_; or, The Sportsman's Club among the Whalers." By HARRY CASTLEMON. The same. "_Fridthjof's Saga._ A Norse Romance." By E. FEGNER, Bishop of Mexico. S. C. Griggs & Co., Chicago. "_Viking Tales of the North._" By ANDERSON. The same. "_Michigan Board of Agriculture._ 1875." Lansing, Mich. NEBULÆ. --During the progress of the canvass for the Presidential election--in our September number--we made a promise which seemed about the safest that could be made, but which proved to be a rash one--so rash that at this moment we are entirely unable to redeem it--as unable as if we had undertaken to say which exhibitor at the Philadelphia Exhibition would not get a medal. We said that we would give our readers accurate information, in our December number, as to which party was likely to carry the day. What may happen before these words are printed and laid before our readers we cannot tell; and the experience of the past few weeks has taught us caution as to prediction and promise, even upon apparent certainty; but although the election is more than a month past, _we_ do not know who is to be President, and no one is wiser on this subject than we are. The matter is not one to be treated lightly. It is of the gravest possible importance. No consequence of our civil war is more serious or more deplorable than that condition of the former slave States, which has caused this prolonged uncertainty with regard to the result of the election, and that political state of the whole country which has made this uncertainty the occasion of such intense and embittered feeling, and such desperate measures by the managers of both the great political parties. In fact, the war of secession is not at an end. Twelve years have passed since the military forces of the seceders surrendered to those of the Government, but the contest, or one arising from it, prolongs itself into the present, when those are men who, when the war broke out, were too young to understand its causes. And at the same time we are suffering, in our prostrate trade and almost extinguished commerce, another grievous consequence of the same dire internecine struggle. Truly ourselves and our institutions are sorely tried. A like combination of disastrous circumstances would bring about a revolution in any other country. If we go through this trial safely, we may not only feel thankful, but take some reasonable pride in the