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Witb tbo December number 01(1 and Xew completes its f rat year aml Second volunie. Inchiclcd 11 lts papers are : Wuutcl, a Statesmaii, by J. F. Clarke ; Athens and htr Eneinies, by Win. Everett; Tarry at Home Travel, a vury plezant satire, and, if we do not mlstake tlie ear-roarks, by the genial editor, Uev. E. E. Hale ; The Iloly Gospels, by C. A. Sc. JJeiivc The Last Week, by A. A.Woodhull .Jetterson's "Hip Van Wiuklo ;" Sparrows, by Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney; All Ying (in praise of tire Chinóse), by Julins A. Palmer, Jr. Pink and White Tyranny, chaps. xi. and xn., by Mi. Stowe; Natural and Revealed Religión, by H. W Bellowa The Dying Gladiator, by Theodore Lyman, poen, reviews, etc. This is one of the most scholarly of tho monthlios. Por 1871 a rare blll of fare is promi:-ed, insuring au inoreastd aud conlinued popnlarity. $4 a year ; three copies, $10. Address KoiiErt-rs Bkotheks, 133 Washington Street, Boston. The Zadies' Repomtory for December has a varied, readable, Instructiva table of contents, with nothing clap trap or en.mtional. It has two steel plates, "The Dream of IIojic" and a portrait ol the Kev. Dr. W. L. Harris, with live llastrated artlcles ; The Death of Jacob, M. Adolphc Thiers, 'J'iio Oravc of Pope, Even-Song, and From Alpace to the Iiartz. Among the other papers are: Melancthon, A Sprig of Ilemloek - concluded, The Carerns of Adels burg, The Tyranny of Custom, A Little Clisl'l, ïnfliusiasin, poems, lesser articles, Chililnn's JLJepartment - alway.s god, editorial and literary notes, etc. The Repositori furnishespure liUrature for the lioinecireïe. The thlrty-iirst volume will becomnience jwith the January number. $3.50 a year. Address Hitchcock ú WaiDLn, (..'iiK-innali, Oliio. The letter froua Kear-Admiral Porter to ei-Sècretarj Wellk - see an other column - was given to the public at an unfortunate time - for the Adrniral, and is likly to cost him his promotion. Giian't proposes to withhold bis appoiotmeDt, the Senate picpoeeB rejection f not witliheld, and Butler proposes to aboüsh tlie office, that is if Congress will be an instrument of veogeance in his handg. Porteu ís busy explaining away the rough passages, but finds it "an up-hill job. His English v;as too unmistakable to be made to mean anything else than what was said.