It is with diffidence that we w der" take to ne ey hooks, colond: by Baphiel Tuck & Sons, La., fur it is so dificult to tind fresh superlatives with which to describ these admirable productions, and while exch year's harvest. shows an ad predecessors, there yet a family likeness. The incessant finality, variety, an? beauty of these dispensable concomitants -f the waning year are little short of marvellous; they evince as ever the persistence at Raphavt House of unlimited taste and skill. liber-result is that everyhudy who sends and everybody who receive these tokens of love and thought findon them the mi 1 easel which is the t: ademark of Raphael Tuck and Sons. As to the vanely of these productions, it is enough to say that, it demands a volume of 282 pages to catalogue them lume which with its in itself. to their originality, which isa more dificult quality to maintain, it is enough! to say tha: this season has produc-d no han 1,600 new wets, of wh.ch 1,000 cnloars, 40) in back and white and monochrome, and 200 are exquisitely painted flowers formed of satin and velvet, jtaised over a surface of transparent celluloid. None of these, however, ate so!
as those in blick and white and! monochrome. But to dwell on the beauty of these cards and of the calendars, gift bouks and tay books, postcards' and humorous cards, and_other art novelties, unnecessary. Raphael Tuck and Sons is may well take as their motto—What region in the world is not full of our
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