Captain Ross, the hero of the North Pole, is losing ground in public favor. Singular discrepancies are said to have been discovered in his last volume, between his map and his text. _Sketches of American Literature_, by Flint, are in course of publication in the London Athenæum. They are not very highly spoken of--being called abstruse and dull. The finest edition ever yet published of Milton's Paradise Lost, is that of Sir Egerton Brydges, of which the first volume is already issued. It contains the first six books--an engraving from Romney's picture "Milton Dictating to his Daughter," and a fine vignette, "The Expulsion," by J. M. W. Turner, R.A. The edition will be completed in six vols. The Right Hon. J. P. Courtney has in press _Memoirs of the Life, Works, and Correspondence of Sir William Temple_. James, the author of Darnley, has completed the _Life of Edward the Black Prince_. Lady Dacre, who wrote the _Tales of a Chaperon_, has published _Tales of the Peerage and Peasantry_. The work is ostensibly _edited_ by Lady Dacre, but there can be no doubt of her having written it. Every lover of fine writing must remember the story of _Ellen Wareham_ in the Tales of a Chaperon. Positively we have never seen any thing of the kind more painfully interesting, with the single exception of the Bride of Lammermuir. The Tales in the present volumes are _The Countess of Nithsdale_, _The Hampshire Cottage_, and _Blanche_. Willis' _Pencillings by the Way_ are regularly republished in the Liverpool Journal. The _Canzoniere of Dante_ has been translated by C. Lyell with absolute fidelity, and of course with correspondent awkwardness. Barry Cornwall's _Life of Edmund Kean_ is severely handled in Blackwood's Magazine for July. The seventh Bridgewater Treatise has appeared in two volumes. It is by the Rev. W. Kirby, the naturalist, and treats of _The History, Habits, and Instincts of Animals_. The article on the Bridgewater Treatises in the London Quarterly (we believe,) is one of the most admirable essays ever penned--we allude to the paper entitled _The Universe and its Author_. A second edition of _Social Evils_, by Mrs. Sherwood, has appeared. Mrs. S. is now well advanced in years. A political novel is also in press--_Mephistopheles in England, or the Confessions of a Prime Minister_. _The Life of Edward, Earl of Clarendon_, is in preparation by Lister, author of Granby. Joanna Baillie is about to issue three new volumes of _Dramas on the Passions_. She is, in our opinion, the first literary lady in England. The London Quarterly Review is especially severe on Fanny Kemble's Journal--while an article on the same subject in the last New England Review is as particularly lenient. The paper in the Quarterly is from the pen of Lockhart.