Miss Landon has contributed more to the "Bijou" than to any other Annual, and a piece from her distinguished pen will increase the value and variety of our columns. THE FEAST OF LIFE. I bid thee to my mystic Feast, Each one thou lovest is gathered there; Yet put thou on a mourning robe, And bind the cypress in thy hair. The hall is vast, and cold, and drear; The board with faded flowers is spread: Shadows of beauty flit around, But beauty from each bloom has fled; And music echoes from the walls, But music with a dirge-like sound; And pale and silent are the guests, And every eye is on the ground. Here, take this cup, tho' dark it seem, And drink to human hopes and fears; 'Tis from their native element The cup is filled--it is of tears. What! turnest thou with averted brow? Thou scornest this poor feast of mine; And askest for a purple robe, Light words, glad smiles, and sunny wine. In vain, the veil has left thine eyes, Or such these would have seemed to thee; Before thee is the Feast of Life, But life in its reality! We should not, however, pass over in silence a poem, of the antique school, entitled the Holy Vengeance for the Martyrdom of George Wishart, the merits of which are of a high order. Indeed, this piece, and the admirable composition of the History of Sir Thomas More and his Family, with the Holbein print, distinguish the Bijou from all other publications of its class, and are characteristic of the good taste of Mr. Pickering, the proprietor. Altogether, the Bijou for 1829 is very superior to the last volume, and, to our taste, it is one of the most attractive of the Christmas presents. * * * * * THE WINTER'S WREATH. This is a _provincial_, but not a first appearance in London; the present being the fourth "_Wreath_" that has been entwined for the lovers of song and sentiment. It is culled from Liverpool, (next to our own metropolis) the most literary city in the empire; but many of its flowers have been gathered from our metropolitan parterre. Thus, in addition to the respected names of Roscoe, Currie, and Shepherd, (of Liverpool), we have among the contributors those of Hemans, Bowring, Howitt, Opie, with Mitford, Montgomery, and Wiffen. The editorship has passed into different hands, and "the introduction of religious topics has been carefully avoided" as unsuited to a work of elegant amusement. The plates are twelve in number, among which are _Lady Blanche and her Merlin_, after Northcote (rather too hard in the features); an exquisite _View of the Thames near Windsor_, after Havell; _Medora and the Corsair_, after Howard; the _Sailor Boy_, by Lizars; and a beautiful _Wreath_ Title-page, after Vandyke. All these will bear comparison with any engravings in similar works.