Several new books of _Travels_ have lately appeared or are in press in London. Among them are _Eight Years in Palestine, Syria, and Asia Minor, from 1842 to 1850_, by F. A. NEALE, late of the Consular service; _A Naturalist's Sojourn in America_, by P. H. GOSSE; a _Journal of a Boat Voyage through Rupert's Land, and along the Central Arctic Coasts of America_, in Search of the Discovery Ships under command of Sir John Franklin, with an Appendix on the Physical Geography of North America, by Sir JOHN RICHARDSON, C. B., F. R. S., &c.; the _Personal Narrative of an Englishman Domesticated in Abyssinia_, by MANSFIELD PARKINS; _Contrasts of Foreign and English Society_, or, records and recollections of a residence in various parts of the Continent and of England, by Mrs. AUSTIN; _Narrative of Travels to Nineveh, in 1850_, by Hon. FREDERICK WALPOLE, R. N. author of "Four Years in the Pacific;" _Recollections of Manilla and the Philippines, in 1848-50_, by ROBERT MACMICKING; _Recollections of a Ramble from Sidney to Southampton, via Panama, the West Indies, the United States, and Niagara_, (anonymous.) * * * * * J. J. GARTH WILKINSON has just published in London _The Human Body and its Connection with Man, illustrated by the Principal Organs_, and it is dedicated to Mr. Henry James of New-York, the author of _Moralism and Christianity_. "My dear James," says the author, "this book is indebted to you for its appearance, for without you it would neither have been conceived nor executed. I dedicate it to you as a feeble tribute of friendship and gratitude that would gladly seek a better mode of expressing themselves. It may remind you of happy hours that we have spent together, and seem to continue some of the tones of our long correspondence. _Valeat quantum!_ It could not lay its head upon the shelf without a last thought of affection directed to its foster parent. That prosperity may live with you and yours, and your great commonwealth, is the prayer of, my dear James, your faithful friend," &c. * * * * * Of new novels the most noticeable appear to be _The Lady and the Priest_, by Mrs. Maberly; _The Tutor's Ward_; _Clare Abbey_, by author of "The Dicipline of Life;" _Marion Wethers_, by Miss Jewsbury; _Castle Deloraine, or the Ruined Peer_, by Miss PRISCILLA SMITH; and _Quakerism, or the Story of My Life_, a splenetic attack on the society of Friends. * * * * * The recent work of Dr. GREGORY on Animal Magnetism has attracted much attention, and from some intimations in the papers we suspect it is to be criticised in _Letters on the Truths contained in Popular Superstitions, with an Account of Mesmerism_, by Dr. HERBERT MAYO, F.R.S., to be published by Blackwood. * * * * *