CHRISTMAS CARDS AND CALENDARS.—The Medici Society has pub- lished a
fresh series of its charming Christmas cards and calendars, which show that the English colour-printer now need fear no rival in Munich or Vienna. Some of the illustrations on the cards are delightful little reproductions of old masters like Titian's " Duke of Norfolk" or Botticelli's " Annunciation " ; others are from modern works like Dante Rossetti's " Ecce Ancilla Domini " or Colonel Goff's water-colour sketches of Assisi. Cards like these are worth having.—The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge issues as usual its handy Churchman's Almanack in various forms, at very low prices.—Messrs. A. and R. Mowbray publish again their Church- man's Kalendar for the desk or the wall, a number of well-printed almanacs and Christmas cards of a devotional character, and among other things, The Revised Lectionary (9s.) for the year now begun, which has not yet been authorized for public use, but is issued, with the Archbishop's approval, so that Churchmen "may become familiar with what is proposed."—We have received also The Catholic Diary for 1919 (R. and T. Washboume), which names the saints commemorated on each day in different places or by the religious Orders, and tho neat Cambridge Pocket Diary (Cambridge University Press, 2s. net), which others besides residents in Cam- bridge will find useful.—The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds has chosen for its Christmas card an attractive painting by Mr. Archibald Thorburn of a skylark singing over "No Man's Land," which evokes many memories.
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