Smith, Sydney. Wit and Wisdom of the Rev. Sydney Smith being Selections from His Writings and Passages from His Letters and Table-Talk. With a Biographical Memoir and Notes by Evert A. Duyckinck. New York: Redfield, 1856. 458 p., 10 p. of adv.
Griswold, Rufus Wilmot. The Republican Court; or, American Society in the Days of Washington. With Twenty-five Portraits of Distinguished Women ... New and revised edition. New York: D. Appleton, 1856. iv, 490, [1] p.
Heighway, Osborn W. Trenery. The Relatives of Leila Ada: With Some Account of the Present Persecutions of the Jews. New York: Wiley & Halsted, 1856. 253 p.
Gobineau, Arthur. The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races, with Particular Reference to their Respective Influences in the Civil and Political History of Mankind. From the French by Count A. de Gobineau, with an Analytical Introduction and Copious Historical Notes by H. Hotz. To which is added an Appendix containing a Summary of the latest Scientific Facts bearing upon the Question of Unity or Plurality of the Species by J. C. Nott, M.D. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1856. xvi, [13]-512 p.
The Life, Confession and Execution of the Jew and Jewess, Gustavus Linderhoff and Fanny Victoria Talzingler, who were hung in Ashville, North Carolina, Oct. 27, 1855, for Their Triple Murder of Abner, Benjamin, and Charles Ecclangfeldt, Three Orphan Children ... Baltimore: A. R. Orton, 1856. 50 p.
Bement, R. B. The Kingdom of Brass; or, The History of the World from the Birth of Alexander the Great to the Birth of Christ, including the History of Judea during that Period ... Cincinnati: Moore, Wilstach, Keys, 1856. 312 p.
Pickard, Kate E. R. The Kidnapped and the Ransomed, being the Personal Recollections of Peter Still and His Wife “Vince,” after Forty Years of Slavery. With an Introduction, by Rev. Samuel J. May; And an Appendix, by William H. Furness, D.D. Syracuse, N.Y.: William T. Hamilton; New York and Auburn: Miller, Orton, and Mulligan, 1856. 409 p.