We have received a three-sheet Calendar and numerous Christmas Cards
from the Medici Society. The majority are coloured reproductions of works of the Old Masters, mainly religious pictures ; a few are in photogravure. No firm can reproduce in colour bettor than this, and if perfection is lacking, perhaps the Society blames the Old Masters for a deplorable lack of foresight in not arranging their colours and tones to meet the limitations of mechanical reproduction ; for they certainly did not. But while artists may weep, many others will like to send and receive these cards.-Messrs. Mowbray also send us from Oxford many calendars and cards. The calendars are in sheet and book form, and some of them will delight the hagiologist. The cards at a penny are wonderfully cheap. These and more expensive ones are all religious in character, with sacred pictures or devotional verses or both.
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