We intended to notice these interesting volumes sooner, and recommend them to our readers as highly entertaining and instructive. Mrs. Jamieson's style, though not faultless, is very attractive; and certainly as a female writer, she is hardly surpassed in vigor and richness. The _first_ volume is principally devoted to sketches of art, literature and character, comprising _Memoranda_ at Munich, Nuremburg and Dresden. It also contains a vivid account of the celebrated Bess of _Hardwicke_, the _old_ Countess of Shrewsbury,--a visit to _Althorpe_, the ancient seat of the Spencers--and eloquent sketches of the private and dramatic life of _Mrs. Siddons_, and of _Fanny Kemble_. The _second_ volume opens with three interesting stories,--the _False One_, a pathetic oriental tale, a thousand times superior to Vathek,--_Halloran the Pedlar_, and the _Indian Mother_. It also contains a very amusing _drama for little actors_,--and concludes with the _Diary of an Enuyeé_, a performance of much and deserved celebrity. We shall make occasional selections from this work, for the benefit of such of our readers as have no opportunity of seeing the volumes themselves. For the present, we have transferred to our pages the "Indian Mother," a most affecting story founded on a striking incident related by Humboldt. The scene being laid in South America, the reader will be struck with the strong impressions made on Mrs. Jamieson's mind of that magnificent country, through the medium of description alone. * * * * * POEMS, by William Cullen Bryant. Boston: Russell, Odiorne & Metcalfe. 1834.