17 MARCH 1877, Page 23

We have received from Messrs. Marcus Ward and Co. a

box of ex- quisitely drawn and coloured Easter Cards. If Easter cards be institu- tions which conduce in any way to the feelings appropriate to the time of year,—which we confess we greatly doubt,—none more delicately painted than those could be imagined. The flowers are drawn and coloured with great care, the crosses are usually in good taste, and though we object to the namby-pamby angel on one of the cards, and to the very heavy crown suspended over the cross in another, for the most part, no prettier emblems of Easter could be produced.