23 AUGUST 1828, Page 12

The Carcanet* is an elegant little collection of extracts, long

and short, verse and prose. It is "small but handsome :" the selection is made with taste and purity : the printer has done his best ; the binder has rivalled him. We wish to recommend the Carcanet to our more juvenile readers, as an amiable little present. It is the only kind of book really enjoyable in the open air—the only kind of book to be looked at when impatiently waiting in a drawing-room either for a dinner or a friend : a snatch here is sure to carry off some happy little fragment or other.