MESSRS. APPLETON have a series of works, equally remarkable for typographical and pictorial magnificence and literary interest. _Christmas with the Poets_ is admitted to be, on the whole, the most admirably executed production of the printing press; _The Women of Early Christianity_, written by eminent authors, and edited by the Rev. Mr. Spencer, presents attractively the domestic romance of religious history, with seventeen very excellent engravings, making an imperial octavo, in the style of that remarkably popular series, the _Women of the Bible_, the _Women of the Old and New Testament_, and _Our Saviour with Prophets and Apostles_, all of which are now published in styles to suit the cabinet of art, the drawing-room table, or the library. Another very interesting and richly illustrated work from this house is _The Land of Bondage_, by Dr. Wainwright, corresponding with the same author's splendid volume, _The Pathways and Abiding Places of Our Lord_. The Appletons also publish for the coming holidays Mrs. Jameson's most successful work, the _Beauties of the Court of Charles the Second_, with twenty-one finely engraved portraits, and _The Queens of England_, by Agnes Strickland, with eighteen portraits--a work of which the fame is as extensive as a love of art or an admiration of woman; and _Lyrics of the Heart_, a very finely illustrated collection of the poems of Alaric A. Watts. The other illustrated works from this house are enumerated in the advertising pages at the end of this magazine, to which we ask attention. The Fine Arts. A series of four compositions representing the Seasons, by CALAME, a Swiss artist, is highly praised in the _Grenzboten_, as something altogether original and superior to the technical traditions of the schools. They were painted for a Russian gentleman, and were exhibited for a short time in Berlin. Spring is an Italian or Grecian landscape of the antique world, and the time is morning; Summer is a German scene and the time noon; Autumn is from the lake country of Switzerland and the time late afternoon; Winter is a late evening scene with moonlight. * * * * * MR. HARDING'S noble full-length of _Daniel Webster_--the best work of its class ever engraved in this country--may now be purchased at two dollars and a half per copy, of Sherman & Adriance, Astor House. * * * * * The celebrated _Portrait of Bishop White_, painted by Henry Inman, and engraved in London, by Wagstaff, is now published from the original plate, by Andrews and Meeser, of Philadelphia, at three dollars per copy. The impressions are quite as good as those first taken, which were sold for four times as large a price. * * * * *