11 DECEMBER 1875, Page 23

Mamas Ward and Co.'s Christmas and New-Year Cards, 1875-6.— These

pretty harbingers of Christmas, with their graceful designs of birds and flowers and quaint little children, are before us again, and seem to us even prettier and more ingenious than last year, though we recognise one or two old friends amongst them. There is one which unfolds, and displays the four seasons, typified by their appropriate birds and flowers, which is very beautiful, and even Mr. Morris might take a hint for esthetic paper-hangings from some of the designs. The growing improvement in taste in these slight things is very marked, and it is matter of speculation whether the artistic pabulum on which our children aro brought up will produce its proper fruit.