The season is coming which is marked by beautiful custom and sweet association, in which everybody is asking what presents they shall make to friends and dear ones; and our times furnish an infinite variety of things good for such a purpose. But among them all there is nothing equal to a good book. Here is one just come from Cupples, Upham & Co., the latest poems of Whittier, who sings as sweetly as ever; and for songs of the heart he has no equal among American writers. "St. Gregory's Guest, and Recent Poems" is the title of this.