%Life of Madame Catharine Adorna.% Including some leading Facts and Traits in her Religious Experience. Together with Explanations and Remarks, tending to illustrate the Doctrine of Holiness. 12mo, Muslin, gilt edges, 60 cents; Muslin, 50 cents. %Homes and Haunts of the British Poets.% By WILLIAM HOWITT. With numerous Illustrations. 2 vols. 12mo, Muslin, $3 00. %History of Wonderful Inventions.% Illustrated by numerous Engravings. 12mo, Muslin, 75 cents; Paper, 50 cents. %The Valley of the Mississippi.% History of the Discovery and Settlement of the Valley of the Mississippi, by the three great European Powers, Spain, France, and Great Britain; and the subsequent Occupation, Settlement, and Extension of Civil Government by the United States, until the year 1846. By JOHN W. MONETTE, Esq. Maps. 2 vols. 8vo, Muslin, $5 00; Sheep, $5 50. %Life and Writings of Cassius M. Clay;% Including Speeches and Addresses. Edited, with a Preface and Memoir, by HORACE GREELEY. With Portrait. 8vo, Muslin, $1 50. %ABBOTT'S HISTORIES% in course of publication %By Harper and Brothers, New York.% Each Volume of this Series is printed and bound uniform with the other Volumes, and is adorned with a richly-illuminated title-page and numerous Engravings. 12mo, Muslin, plain edges, 60 cents per volume; Muslin, gilt edges, 75 cents per volume. * * * * * %Mary Queen of Scots.% This history is given here minute in every point of real interest, and without the encumbrance of useless opinions. There is no sentence thrown away--no time lost in mere ornament. Perhaps no book extant containing so few pages, can said to convey so many genuine historical facts. There is here no attempt to glaze over recorded truth, or win the reader by sophistry to opinions merely those of the author. The pure, simple history of Queen Mary is placed before the reader, and each one is left to form an unbiased opinion from events impartially recorded there. One great and most valuable feature in this little work is a map of Scotland, with many engravings of the royal castles and wild scenes connected with Mary's history. There is also a beautiful portrait of the Queen, and a richly illuminated title-page such as only the Harpers can get up--_National Magazine._ * * * * * %Queen Elizabeth.% Full of instructive and heart-stirring incident, displayed by the hand of a master. We doubt whether old Queen Bess ever before had so much justice done to her within the same compass. Such a pen as Jacob Abbott wields, especially in this department of literature, has no right to lie still--_Albany Express_. * * * * * %Charles the First.%