The American annuals for the present season are not very numerous. Mr. Walker, of Fulton-street, has published _The Odd Fellow's Offering_, which contains excellent contributions by Mr. Simms, Mr. Saunders, Mrs. Hewitt, Mrs. Kirkland, Mrs. Kimball, Mrs. Oakes Smith, and other writers; and Lippencott, Grambo & Co., of Philadelphia, have published the handsomest book of its class for the year, in _The Iris_, with unique and beautiful illustrations from drawings by Captain Eastman, U.S.A., whose wife writes a large portion of the contents. * * * * * _Vagamundo, or the Attaché in Spain_, by JOHN E. WARREN, is a very delightful book illustrative of society, scenery, &c., in "old, renowned, romantic Spain," where the author was attached to the American legation. As Mr. Warren while abroad was a correspondent of _The International_, it may be suspected that we have some prejudice in his favor--which indeed is very true--and therefore we inform our readers that of the English edition of this work, and of the American edition, all the critics have given such opinions as delight an author and bring money to his publisher. Mr. Warren is the author of _Para, or Scenes and Adventures on the Banks of the Amazon_, lately published by Putnam. It is his vocation to travel and make books, as these two performances very plainly show. (Charles Scribner.) * * * * * Mr. CHARLES ASTOR BRISTED, whose very clever sketches of American Society we have copied from month to month from _Fraser's Magazine_, has in the press of Putnam a work entitled _Five Years in an English University_. Mr. Putnam has in press also _The Shield_, by Miss FENIMORE COOPER, and _The Monuments of Central and Western America_, by Dr. HAWKS, besides several beautiful souvenir volumes, for the coming holidays, which embrace contributions by the best authors and artists of the country. Mr. SIMMS, has just published (by A. Hart), a new novel under the title of _Catherine Walton_, which is equal to his best productions. The scene is in South Carolina, during the Revolution. _The Fine Arts._ PAUL DELAROCHE'S picture of _Marie Antoinette_ is to be engraved on a large scale. Delaroche has represented the unfortunate _Autrichienne_ descending the stairs from the terrible tribunal which pronounced her death-sentence. She is attired in black, with a white scarf round her shoulders. A singular but striking effect, which the painter has rendered with habitual felicity, is the altered color of her hair, which is said to have turned white. The artist has shown the alteration, by a few stray auburn locks, blanched at the root. In the background is represented the mob which greeted with execrations the "widow Capet" on the morning of the 15th October, 1793. * * * * *