The new novels of the last month have been numerous. The Harpers have published _Caleb Field_, by the author of Mrs. Margaret Maitland; _Eastbury_, by Harriet Drury; _The Heir of Wast-Wayland_, by Harriet Drury; _Yeast, a Problem_, by the author of Alton Locke; and some half dozen others. From T. B. Peterson, of Philadelphia, we have _Ginevra, or the History of a Portrait_, which we understand is by a daughter of the late S. L. Fairfield: it is much praised in some of the journals. M. Hart has given us another clever novelette, by Caroline Lee Hentz, under the title of _Rena_. From Lippincott, Grambo & Co., we have _Lord and Lady Harcourt_, one of the pleasantest books of the season. * * * * * MISS BREMER has passed the winter and spring in the south and west, where she has been received with much hospitality, and detained with the affection she seems every where to inspire. Within a few weeks she has visited Florida, with a family of her friends from Charleston, and she has given very careful attention, under the most favorable circumstances, to the institutions of the southern states. She is now on her way through Tennessee and Virginia to New-York, and will soon return to Sweden, by way of London. * * * * * H. BALLIERE has just published _Vestiges of Civilization, or the AEtiology of History, Religious, AEsthetical, Political and Philosophical_. It appears to be written with much ability, but we are by no means inclined to believe in the truth of the author's views. He applies to civilization the processes which the author of the _Vestiges of Creation_ applied to Natural History; and without attaining to the fame of that work, the Vestiges of Civilization will probably share its condemnation. * * * * * All our readers who were accustomed to read the journals twenty years ago, will remember SHOCCO JONES, the immortal defender of the fame of North Carolina. We had thought the mortal part of him was sent to the bourne he was so fond of describing in fine rhetoric when he wrote duel-challenges until a few days ago, when a friend advised us that he had lately listened to him saying mass in a Roman Catholic chapel in Mississippi. Who would have thought it? * * * * * MR. CHARLES SCRIBNER, (successor of Baker & Scribner,) has in press a large number of interesting new works, among which are _Incidents in the Life of a Pastor_, by the Rev. Dr. Wisner of Ithica; _The Captains of the Old World_, by Henry William Herbert; _Naval Life: the Midshipman_, by Lieutenant Lynch, Commander of the late Dead Sea Expedition; _The Fall of Poland_, by L. C. Saxton; _The Evening Book_, by Mrs. Kirkland; _Rural Homes_, by G. Wheeler; _The Epoch of Creation_, in which the scripture doctrine is contrasted with the geological theory, by Eleazer Lord; &c. * * * * *