Instend of showing signs of decay, the cult of the Christmas Card continues to extend, and the high priests thereof, Messrs. Raphael Tuck & Sons, have been obliged, xs we noticed not long ago, to build a'great special temple for its service Moorfields, which they have aptly nam-d Raphael House. From this vast hive of urf and industry there comes to us again a box of its multifarious productions, 0 filled with bexnty, a beauty which is lavished on the smallest curd as well xs the costliest calendar, that it requires closely-printed book of 240 pages only to catalogue the results of Messrs. Raphael Tuck Sons' enterprise. Everybody knows, and buys, and sends, and receives the Christmas cards, booklets, books, calendar: toy-books," and artistic notions that emanate from this palace of art; and the large box of samples sent us only re-resents a fraction of the firm's output.
od drawing, brilliant colouring, exquisite taste, with novelty in design, characterise all these cards and things, and the literary part of them is kept on a level with the that 1,200 entirely uew seta lave been introduced to mark th- passing of 1809 and the coming.of 1930: and while the lovers of polychrome will find their me clinations satisfied, there are no the ph of the books, too mere trivialities to be thrown aside' when the holiday season hut books to put on the shy panels are well are now being made them by busy carpenters all over the To attempt any detailed descripti intention, 'There is no 'Pack and Sons' product "ins and the most fastidious as most catholic mast uy work; every reached perfect always shows some yet the next year
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