Among the novelties about to be issued from the press of Mr. Redfield, of Clinton Hall, is a series of Portraits or Biographies by ARSENE HOUSSAYE, of the men and women of the eighteenth century, comprising the philosophers, poets, artists--indeed all who lent a grace to or stamped their impress on the long and desolate reign of Louis Quinze. They are executed with a firm hand and possess the brilliant coloring of fiction, without deviating from historic truth. It is the only work that gives a just idea of the gay, witty and dissipated society that existed in France previous to the Revolution, and was one of the causes of that event. Mr. Redfield also announces _The Ladies of the Covenant_, a series of interesting biographical illustrations of the religious history of Scotland, by the Rev. JAMES ANDERSON; _Sorcery and Magic_, by THOMAS WRIGHT, of the Shakspeare and Percy societies; and a volume of _Tales and Sketches_, by Miss CAROLINE CHESEBRO. * * * * * There is in the possession of descendants of JONATHAN EDWARDS a MS. volume of Discourses on Christian Love, in his own handwriting. The paper looks dingy, but the writing is regular and clear. It is now being transcribed, and will be published during the autumn by Robert Carter & Brothers. The same house have in the press _Lectures on the Evidences of Christianity, delivered at the University of Virginia, during the Session of 1850-51_, among the contributors to which are the Rev. Drs. Alexander, Breckenridge, Plumer, McGill, Rice, Sampson, Ruffner, &c. * * * * * The _Knickerbocker_ has recently contained several chapters under the title of _The Sketch Book of Me, Meister Karl_, which have the best quality of Rabelais and Sterne. We have heard them attributed to Mr. CHARLES G. LELAND, of Philadelphia--one of the youngest of our authors, and one of the finest scholars and rarest humorists of this time, We believe Pennsylvania has no other son or citizen who gives fairer promise of distinction in letters. * * * * * ISAAC TAYLOR'S _Elements of Thought, a concise Explanation of the Principal Terms employed in the several branches of Intellectual Philosophy_, has been published by W. Gowans, from the ninth London edition. * * * * * Mr. CARLYLE'S _Life of John Stirling_ is in the press of Phillips & Sampson of Boston, and will soon be issued. From the same house we are to have _Memoirs of Sarah Margaret Fuller, Marchesa d' Ossoli_, edited by Ralph Waldo Emerson and William H. Channing; and a new and very beautiful edition of Robinson Crusoe, with new illustrations. * * * * *