The REV. C. G. FINNEY, so well known in the Presbyterian churches of this country, has passed some time in London, and an edition of his _Lectures on Systematic Theology_ has just been published there, with a preface by the Rev. Dr. Redford, of Worcester, who confesses, that "when a student he would gladly have bartered half the books in his library to have gained a single perusal of these Lectures; and he cannot refrain from expressing the belief, that no young student of theology will ever regret their purchase or perusal." The book makes an octavo of 1016 pages.
"TALVI," the wife of Professor ROBINSON, will leave New-York in a few days, we understand, to pass some time in her native country. She will be absent a year and a half, and will reside chiefly in Berlin. We have recently given an account of the life and writings of this very eminent and admirable woman, in the _International_, and are among the troops of friends who wish her all happiness in the fatherland, and a safe return to the land of her adoption. We presume the public duties of Dr. Robinson will prevent him from being absent more than a few weeks.
ALBERT SMITH has dramatised a tale from Washington Irving's "Alhambra" for the Princess's Theatre--making a burlesque comedy.
MRS. SOUTHWORTH must be classed among our most industrious writers. The Appletons have just published a new novel by her, entitled _The Mother-in-Law_, and she has two others in press--one of which is appearing from week to week in the _National Era_.
DR. SPRING, whose religious writings appear to be as popular in Great Britain as in this country, and every where to be regarded as among the classics of practical religious literature, has issued a second edition of his two octavos entitled _First Things_. In style, temper, and all the best qualities of such works, the discourses embraced in this work are deserving of eminent praise. (M. W. Dodd.)
Of HENRY MARTIN, whom the religious world regards with a reverent affection like that it gives to Cowper and Heber, the hitherto unpublished _Letters and Journals_ have just appeared, and they seem to us even more interesting than the so well-known Memoirs of his Life published soon after he died. (M. W. Dodd.)