The catalogue of Messrs. Raphael Tuck and Sons which we noticed the other day raised expectation high, and that expecta: tion is not disappointed, now that we have received a box full of the cards and booklets, they are called. Year by year the de: signers of these pretty memorials draw
year by year more ingenuity is displayed in better and colour with more pera while the invention of quaint forms, and the elaboration of alluring devices. The frst carton we open shows us a snow-covered A-barred gate, standing bodily out from the card to which it is fixed, the resting-place of a flock of little birds, warbling the wish for 'a happy Christmas." The next has a flower-painted fan of daintiest muslin cut out of the card, itself decorated with mistletoe. Here me Art Gem Panel, bells and ivy cut out as a border} another is a cushion of pink satin, opening to show two landscapes. Then there are booklets; one in the semblance of a straw poke-bonnet, with " capital poem, excellently illustrated, showing "How They Met," and how useful the bonnet was another in the external semblance of a swallow, with the swallow's message in
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