25 NOVEMBER 1854, Page 17

Mr. Bogne's edition of Longfellow's Golden Legend takes its place

among gift-books, from its fitness for a drawingroom or boudoir volume, no less than for its literary merit. The binding —in our copy azure and gold—combines the lightness and elegance of modern fashion with the appearance of the ancient wooden ing. "There Caxton slept, with Wynkyn at his side!

One clasp'd in wood, and one in strong cow-hule."

The paper is neither white nor cream colour, but the new- fashioned amber : the wood-cats—more's the pity—are in the super-elegant vignette style. Mr. Birket Foster, who can be ex- cellent when he combines truth of nature with delicacy, loses him- self in prettifying. Mrs. Hay, though deficient in well-grounded study, shows, in some-of her designs, the, sweetness of a graceful simplicity.