An advertisement of the works of Archbishop WHATELEY contains thirty-six titles. He appears to be one of the most voluminous writers among the bishops, as well as one of the most sensible and learned. * * * * * MR. MACAULEY has at length completed two more volumes of his _History of England_, and they will be published the coming autumn by Longmans. * * * * * The _Poems of Edith May_, from the press of E. H. Butler of Philadelphia, will be one of the most beautiful of the illustrated books of the season. Mr. Butler is an artist in book-making, and he has never published anything more elegant. The lady who writes under the pseudonym of "Edith May" is a genuine poet, and the volume will be popular. * * * * * WILLIAM WARE, one of those delightful authors whose names are always uttered by appreciating readers in tones of affection, has just published (Phillips, Sampson, & Co., of Boston,) _Sketches of European Capitals_. The work includes his views of Ancient Rome, St. Peters and the Vatican, Florence, Naples, the Italians of Middle Italy, and London, and in his preface he tells us that "the volume comes into existence, like so many others now-a-days, as a convenient way of disposing of matter previously used in the form of lectures;" and adds, modestly, "It is a volume of light reading for the summer roadside, and though, like the flowers of that season, perishing with them, one may be permitted to hope that, like some of them, at least it may exhale a not unpleasing fragrance while it lasts." Such a fate awaits no book by the author of _Probus_ and _Zenobia_, of whom this performance is by no means unworthy. * * * * * The HARPERS have in press _Drayton, a Tale of American Life_, in which is traced the career of a young American from the workshop to places of trust and honor; and a friend, who has read the manuscript, speaks in warm terms of the frequent beauty of the style, the warmth of the coloring, the animation of the narrative, and the general progress and development of the story. The author is THOMAS H. SHREVE, for the last ten or twelve years one of the editors of the _Louisville Daily Journal_, and for twenty years well and most favorably known by frequent and elegant contributions to western literature. _Drayton_, we are advised, is not one of those easy pieces of writing which are known as very hard reading, but has engaged the attention of the author, at periods of comparative leisure, for several years past. Within a few months it has been entirely recast and rewritten; and, if our correspondent be not very partial in his judgment of the merits of the work, the public will find in its patriotic and democratic pages a mine of poetry and fine reflection. * * * * *