We may amend our statement thus: Dr. Huntington is the author of a work entitled, _Alice, or the New Una_, which was very commonly regarded as the most licentious publication of its season; we understand that in his youth he was somewhat remarkable for the grimness of his Calvinism; that while a Congregationalist he became a doctor in medicine; that he afterwards took orders in the Episcopal church; that he left that church to enter a society of Roman Catholics; and that it was rumored soon after that he had become a priest, but, it is now understood, was prevented by disqualifying domestic relations. We admit that our paragraph had some little inaccuracies, but certainly they are more easy of explanation than Dr. Huntington's intimation in his letter of July to the London _Morning Chronicle_ that the author of _Alban_ and _Alice_ is a clergyman of the Protestant Episcopal Church! * * * * * HARPER & BROTHERS have just published _Forest Life and Forest Trees_, by G. S. Springer, of Boston; Judge Haliburton's recent work on America which we noticed last month; and Lamartine's _Restoration of the Monarchy in France_, the most brilliant, superficial and false production of a writer never remarkable for depth or conscience. They have in press a new volume of Mr. Hildreth's capital _History of the United States_; Mr. G. P. R. James's _Lectures on Civilization_, delivered in various parts of the country last winter; _Sixteen Months in the Gold Diggings_, by Daniel B. Woods; _Wesley and Methodism_, by Isaac Taylor; _The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World_, by Professor Creasy; new volumes of _Memoirs of Dr. Chalmers_ and Miss Strickland's _Lives of the Queens of Scotland_; and several new English and American novels. * * * * * A very interesting handbook of London, somewhat different from any work of the kind yet published, is soon to appear in this city under the title of _Memories of the Great Metropolis_, profusely illustrated with wood engravings, and with a higher literary finish than is common in such performances. * * * * * The Rev. Dr. HENRY A. BOARDMAN, of Philadelphia, one of the wise, learned and faithful divines by whom is preserved the best reputation of the best vocation, has just published (Lippincott, Grambo, & Co.) a volume of discourses entitled, _The Bible in the Family, or Hints on Domestic Happiness_. It is quite aside, and evidently was intended to be, from the usual routine, though not beyond the legitimate domain of the pulpit. We have treatises on the relative duties, but no book, we believe, of this sort--not a treatise,--which is adapted to American society. Dr. Boardman's work is attractive for its original and striking observation and scholarly finish as a piece of literature, while calculated to be eminently useful for its illustrations of practical religion. * * * * *