We perceive by the religious journals that Mr. JOHN NEAL, who for twenty or thirty years has been the chief literary gladiator of the country, has recently given his attention to religion, and is now laboring with characteristic activity for its advancement in the city and vicinity of Portland. Of course this is very pleasing intelligence, but we cannot help a regret that the conversion of the author of "Randolph" had not taken place before he printed his reviewal of the _Life of Poe_. * * * * * MRS. FRANCES H. GREEN has in press a collection of her Poems, which will soon be published in a stout duodecimo, by Mr. Strong, in Nassau-street. The merits of Mrs. Green may be partially inferred from the notice of her in the article on our Female Poets which we translate from the last number of the _Revue des Deux Mondes_, in another part of this magazine. She has remarkable powers of description, a rich fancy, and much poetical feeling. * * * * * MR. MITCHELL has published (Charles Scribner) a new edition of his _Fresh Gleanings_, one of the most delightful books of travel we ever read; a new edition, with a preface, in which he for the first time avows himself the author of _The Lorgnette_, (Stringer & Townsend); and he has a new work in the press of Mr. Scribner, besides a new and illustrated edition of _The Reveries of a Bachelor_. * * * * * MR. MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER, F.R.S., has returned to England, and will soon give to the world his views of society and manners in America. He said indeed on one or two occasions that he should write no book about us, yet we have it from excellent authority that he has matured his plan for the purpose, and will lose no time in bringing out the results of his summer's observation. * * * * * DR. HOLBROOK, of Charleston, whose splendid work on reptiles entitles him to be ranked with the great naturalists of the time, has taken up his residence for the summer, we understand, at Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he will be occupied with his forthcoming book on American fishes, which in the beauty of its illustrations at least will equal his previous performance. * * * * * MR. JUDD has in the press of Phillips & Sampson, a new edition of his first and best novel, _Margaret, a Tale of the Real and the Ideal_. We hope it will be illustrated with the admirable sketches of Darley. * * * * * MR. SCHOOLCRAFT, we are pleased to learn, has in the press of Lippincott, Grambo & Co., his personal memoirs. They will constitute a work of much and varied interest. * * * * * MR. MELVILLE will soon be again before the public in a romance. The title of his new work is not announced, but we believe it is in press. * * * * *