19 NOVEMBER 1887, Page 50

Messrs. Hildesheimer and Faulkner are first this year in sending

a box of very beautiful Christmas Cards of all kinds. The landscape ones seem to us some of the most graceful and attractive we have ever seen. Extremely pretty designs of children, of ships, vignettes of the most taking kind from brook scenery, from forest scenery, from sea and river scenery, by all sorts of lights—daylight, sunset, moon- light,—are very numerous, and all of them are well executed. The "Opal Souvenirs," as they are called, are exceedingly effective. The verses, toe, are for the most part very well chosen, and often from the most beautiful of our poets. Messrs. Hildesheimer and Faulkner have this year exceeded even the beet of their former cards.