MISCELLANIES, EMBRACING REVIEWS, ESSAYS AND ADDRESSES, by the late THOMAS CHALMERS, D. D. LLD. R. Carter.

Whatever comes from the pen of Dr. Chalmers has now received a greatly and sadly increased interest, from the fact that his earthly labors have now come to a close. The reading public in this country are already indebted to Mr. Carter for the republication of many of the most valuable of his writings; and we are glad to see that he is still going on to make farther selections from these treasures of beautiful and profound thought. Among his miscellaneous productions are to be found some of the most masterly triumphs of his superlative genius; and the present number, (the first in a series of four, proposed by Mr. Carter,) contains articles, which would be immortal, in spite of what embattled legions of critics might do to destroy them.

CHAMBERS' CYCLOPEDIA OF ENGLISH LITERATURE, No. 15. Boston: Gould, Kendall & Lincoln.

The present No. of this truly valuable work brings us into the company of our own contemporaries. Scott, Roscoe, Macintosh, and a large number of living lights, are here introduced, and among them we are glad to see that our own Washington Irving is included. One more No. completes the work. It is in our opinion one of the most valuable contributions recently made in aid of the cause of literature.

THE AMERICAN REVIEW FOR AUGUST. Edited by G. H. COLTON.

This work is certainly among the ablest and most attractive of the day. The present No. contains several uncommonly choice articles. The sketches of John Rutledge and Joseph Reed, whose history forms no unimportant part of the history of the Revolution form a just and beautiful, though brief tri bute to the memory of those immortal patriots. The article on suicide is valuable alike for its ingenious speculations, and its minute statistics.

LITTELL'S LIVING AGE, 172.

This work is remarkable for nothing more than the agreeable variety that pervades it. In reading its articles from week to week, one never finds himself walking in a beaten track. The present No. has a most thrilling article on the trial of the Earl of Somerset, which sheds much light on contempora neous historical events.

THE WRITINGS OF GEORGE WASHINGTON, WITH A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR, BY JARED SPARKS. Vol. VI.

This volume includes Washington's correspondence from July, 1778, to March 1780, together with an appendix, in which among other interesting things, we find an account of the storming of Stony Point, in a letter from General Wayne. The volume, like all its predecessors and successors, breathes a tone of the most exalted patriotism, worthy of the brightest and purest spirit of his age.

EDITOR'S TABLE.

We shall at all times endeavor to secure at once variety and solidity in the American Literary Magazine. We wish to furnish our readers with a sufficiency of interesting and instructive matter, interspersed with lighter articles for relief.

Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit utile dulci.

This we trust will be found to be the case with our present number. We are encouraged by the public favor to exert ourselves, and we hope the public will not be disappointed.

We give a biographical sketch, with a portrait of Major General David Wooster. In these sketches we aim not at splendor but truth. They are in tended to inform our readers, and to stimulate the young and hopeful by examples of honorable and successful exertion.

The continuation of Classic Vagaries will attract attention. Unfortunately the manuscript, did not come to hand at once. It reached us in fragments, and we had gone to press before we received the last of it. Hence the ab. ruptness of its termination. But what we have had room for will quicken the appetite for what remains-and when our Roman friend introduces us in our next to the stirring incidents of a sea fight, and the scenes of naval battle and victory, so gorgeously described in the Pharsalia," we will forget his delay, and prove not ungrateful for the first course of this month's banquet.

"Ireland" is pungent, poetical and instructive. The descriptions both of persons and of places are evidently drawn from life, and the portraiture of Irish character is executed with discrimination and impartiality.

Again our respectful and grateful thanks are rendered to Mrs. Sigourney, both for her kind reception of ourselves personally, and her contribution to this our third number. To be approved of by such an authority and support. ed by such a name encourages the belief that our labors to please and benefit the public are not in vain.

To Miss Barber our thanks are also due, and with grateful pleasure paid. Our heart's desire is that she may live and write till she rises to that eminence among the poetesses of our day, for which her youthful genius bids with so fair a promise. The subject of the " Outcast" is handled with much delicacy and poetic feeling.

Our readers will be happy to find in this number another story from the pen of Miss Goddard. Let her not cease till she has supplied our pages with an" aurea legenda" more interesting than musty tales about apocryphal saints and veiled recluses-among whose number may she-not be one.

The Legend and the Law Suit are a set off to the more didactic articles on Fashion and Cromwell. We hope our legal friend will show himself again in our next, and with as much mirth as in the present.

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Hereafter in addition to our Literary Notices, which are supplied by a very able and impartial hand, we propose to give a lengthened view of some interesting work. We trust that this feature of the magazine will commend it to the general favor. The introduction of it is in accordance with our origi nal design, and we have promise of support in this department from gentlemen well qualified to lend it.

To our other purveyors of poesy we are much obliged and beg a countinuance of their aid. The Balaam Box fills apace; and we shall take an early opportunity to cull some precious morsels from its contents and present them as a piquant salmagundi to our friends.

Now, though we flatter ourselves that no one has become drowsy or fallen asleep over our various papers, yet we conclude with a serenade to rouse our readers and win their best adieu for a month. The piece is from the pen of a lady who writes en garcon; and when the music and immortal verse are wedded, we will sing it beneath her window at midnight, which may lead (who knows?) to a wedding of another sort. Only she has not told us where she resides.

SERENADE.

(To be set to music.)

'Tis moonlight on the land, my love,

'Tis moonlight on the sea;

It is the hour for us to rove,

Then wander forth with me.

And let us slowly stray, my love,

Along the pebbly strand,

And watch the waters, as they move

In ripples on the sand.

The night is clear and calm, my love,
The moon is shining bright;
There's not a single cloud above
To dim her silver light.

No sound to interrupt, my love,

The whispered words we speak ;

And not a breath of air to move

The ringlet on thy cheek.

Then while the moon shines bright, my love,

Upon the land and sea,

Together, dearest, let us rove;

Come! hasten forth to me!

CHRISTINE.