Camsxmas CABD9. — Messrs. L. Prang and Co., of Boston (London agents,
Messrs. Ackermann, of Regent Street), have sent us some of their very elaborate and ingenious Birthday and Christmas Cards and Valentines, set in silk and fringe. Some of them are in the shape of a fan, with a handle, and with very pretty coloured designs on each side of the fan. There are also elaborate valentines, with tassels, scents, and delicately-finished landscapes. The face, intended we suppose, to express the ideal of female beauty in the Valentine, does not strike us as especially fascinating. The birds and butterflies are, as usual, amongst the most effective of these delicate paintings.
Messrs. Marcus Ward have also.sent us some of their pretty designs for Christmas and New-ear Cards,—containing a consider- able variety of types, some Scripturally appropriate, some only seasonable, some comic; only, why -amongst the latter the fox's carnivorous propensity towards the goose, and the dog's destructive propensity towards the fox, need be commemorated, we are unable to understand.
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