"By the Niagara's mail we have had the pleasure of receiving letters from our friend and associate Bayard Taylor,--or as he his known among the Arabs, Taylor Bey,--dated at Khartoum, the chief city of Sennaar, situated at the confluence of the White and the Blue Nile, about half way between Cairo and the Equator. He arrived there on the 12th of January in excellent health and spirits, after a journey on camels across the Nubian Desert, during which he had sundry fortunate adventures, and received every friendly attention from the native chieftains. He was the first American ever seen so far toward Central Africa, and like a good patriot never slept without the stars and stripes floating above his tent. Every where good luck had attended him,--in truth he seems to have been born to it,--but at Khartoum especially he was received with unexpected honors. The governor of the city had presented him with a horse, and had entertained him in a banquet of genuine Ethiopic magnificence, while the commander of the troops had stationed a nightly guard of honor around his tent. In company with Dr. Knoblecher, the venerable Catholic missionary bound for the equatorial regions whom he had overtaken at Khartoum, and of Dr. Deitz, the Austrian Counsel, Mr. Taylor had also attended a banquet at the palace of the daughter of the late king of Sennaar, a very stately and ebon princess, who entertained her guests chiefly upon sheep roasted whole. Others of the first families among the Ethiopian aristocracy had also welcomed the strangers with distinguished civilities. Mr. Taylor expected to reach Cairo on his return about the 1st of April, though we should not be surprised to learn that he had changed his mind, and, in company with the Jesuit mission, plunged still farther into the mysterious country about the equator and the sources of the Nile." * * * * * Several new works by our literary women are on the eve of publication. Redfield has nearly ready _Lyra and other Poems_, by ALICE CAREY--a book containing more illustrations of unquestionable genius than any other written by a woman in America; and he will also publish soon, _Isa, a Pilgrimage_, a romance by Miss Caroline CHEESEBRO', which is likely to attract a great deal of attention. Putnam has in press, _The Shield, a Story of the New World_, by Miss FENIMORE COOPER, whose _Rural Hours_, last year, commanded every where so much well-merited praise, and a new story by Miss WARNER, of whose _Wide, Wide World_ (edited in London by a "Clergyman of the Church of England"), a recent number of the _Literary Gazette_ says: