The Rev. Dr. WAINWRIGHT has in the press of the Appletons a work descriptive of his Travels in Egypt. It will appear in a large and luxuriously embellished volume, some time before Christmas. * * * * * The third, fourth, and fifth volumes of the _Works of John Adams_ have been issued by Little and Brown, and the fifth and sixth volumes of the _Works of Alexander Hamilton_, by C. S. Francis. * * * * * Mr. FREDERIC SAUNDERS is publishing in the _New-York Recorder_ a series of papers under the title of _Bookcraft_ which will make a volume not unworthy of D'Israeli. * * * * * M. W. DODD has published a new edition of CRUDEN's great _Concordance of the Bible_, a book which every body knows is perfect in its kind. * * * * * Jewett & Co. have in press the works of the Rev. LYMAN BEECHER, D.D. which they will publish in some half-dozen octavo volumes. * * * * * The approaching Trade Sales will be the largest ever held in New-York. FOOTNOTES: [14] Réné Taillandier, Professor of Belles Lettres at the College of Montpellier, declared by the _Allgemeine Zeitung_ to be more familiar with German politics and literature than any other Frenchman living. _The Fine Arts._ POWERS, in a letter to a friend in this city, says with satirical humor, of his favorite work, "Eve is an old-fashioned body, and not so well formed and attractive as are her granddaughters,--at least some of them. She wears her hair in a natural and most primitive manner, drawn back from the temples, and hanging loose behind, thus exposing those very ugly features in women. _Her waist is quite too large for our modern notions of beauty_, and her feet, they are so very broad and large! And did ever one see such long toes! they have never been wedged into form by the nice and pretty little shoes worn by her lovely descendents. But Eve is very stiff and unyielding in her disposition: _she will not allow her waist to be reduced by bandaging, because she is far more comfortable as she is_, and besides, she has _some regard for her health, which might suffer from such restraints upon her lungs, heart, liver, &c., &c., &c._ I could never prevail upon her to wear modern shoes, for she dreads corns, which, she says, are neither convenient nor ornamental. But some allowance ought to be made for these crude notions of hers,--founded as they are in the prejudices and absurdities of _primitive_ days. Taking all these things into consideration, I think it best that she should not be exhibited, as it might subject me to censure, and severe criticisms, and these, too, without pecuniary reward." * * * * *