The Rev. DR. BAIRD has added to the number of his works _The Christian Retrospect and Register, a Summary of Scientific Moral and Religious Progress in the First Half of the XIXth Century_. (_12mo. M. W. Dodd._) It is an interesting compend of events, of which even a condensed history might fill a dozen volumes. In all respects it is superior to a work of the same design published by Dr. Davis, and formerly reviewed in this magazine. * * * * * The _Parthenon_, is the title of a new work, remarkable for the beauty of its typography and of its wood cuts, to be published by Loomis & Griswold. It will be in about a dozen parts, the price of each of which will be one dollar. The first number contains, with a new story by Mr. Cooper, the best poem ever published by Mr. Duganne, and two really excellent poems by William Ross Wallace. * * * * * LOUISA PAYSON HOPKINS has just published (Gould & Lincoln of Boston) an excellent little volume in practical religion, entitled _Life's Guiding Star_, and designed to illustrate the second and third questions of the Westminster Catechism. * * * * * The works of the late Rev. WALTER COLTON, U. S. N., will soon be completed in the edition of A. S. Barnes & Co. They have already published _Ashore and Afloat_, and _Three Years in California_, which appeared before the author's death, and since then, _Land and Lee_, embracing the volume published many years ago under the title of "Constantinople and Athens." The posthumous volumes are carefully and judiciously edited by the Rev. HENRY T. CHEEVER, whose own works of a somewhat similar character we have always to notice with praise. * * * * * The Appletons have in press _Io!_ a novel, by a member of the Canadian Parliament, which gives large promise in the proof sheets; _The Philosophy of Mechanics_, by Mr. Allen, of Providence; _Campaigns in Mexico and by the Rio Grande_, by Brevet Major ISAAC J. STEVENS, in which Major Ripley, author of the History of the Mexican War, published by Harpers, is likely to receive more hot shot than he encountered on the field; _Sunbeams and Shadows_, a novel, by Miss HULSE, of Baltimore, and several other new works. * * * * * The _History of the Protestants of France, from the Commencement of the Reformation to the Present Period_, by G. S. FELICE, Professor of Theology at Montauban, has been published in a handsome octavo, by Edward Walker, Fulton street. In the April number of _The International_, we described this work, from a copy of the French original that fell in our way, not knowing that it was in course of translation. We renew our commendations. * * * * *