We took up the other day a handsome volume with the following title: "The American Cottage Builder; a series of designs, plans and specifications, from $200 to $20,000, for Homes for the People. By John Bullock. New York: Stringer & Townsend, 1864." The work is embellished and handsomely printed, but from internal evidence is a rehash of an English publication. We first turned to the chapter on Landscape Gardening, and found it to contain directions how to treat chalk pits and cliffs, etc. Now as no chalk has been found in America, would it not have been as well for the editor or publishers to tell us at once that it was the production of one or more Englishmen, and not by silence, and the insertion of a copy-right page, have led us to believe it was from an American pen? Many of the suggestions are good, but when we saw planters advised to make their principal effects with Portugal and English laurels, which are not hardy here, we laid the volume away. It has no claim to its title of "American".