5 DECEMBER 1925, Page 24

CALENDARS AND CHRISTMAS CARDS

PEOPLE who wish to keep up the custom of sending Christmas cards or calendars to their -friends, and are at their wits' ends to know how they can do it with decency and pleasure, can do no better than put themselves in the hand of the Medici Society. Men of the most severe taste will find reproductions to suit them ;. and; if anyone Should feel his artistic apprecia- tions broadened and softened at Christmas, he will be able to choose a bluebell wood or a purple mountain that will not wholly disgrace him. But, of course, it is for the reproduCtions of old masters that the society is chiefly famous ; the series of cards which it publishes—after such painters as Leonardo, Raphael, -Vermeer, .Rembrandt—is excellently produced and almost incredibly cheap. perhaps, the best of all are the tear- off calendars for engagements : the.-print is-bold and pleasing they range in price from sixpence to Half 4croA ; and the reproductions are as good as all the Society's_ work,