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Messrs. L. Prang and Co. (Boston, U.S.A.) send us a

number of very pretty Christmas and New Year's Cards, some of them in books illustrating " A Summer Day," " The Haunts of Emerson," ,tc. This last idea, that of making some of these pictures combine to illustrate a special subject, is a happy one. There are too many chubby children. Chubby children are not necessarily suitable subjects for Christmas cards, and these being chubby and nothing else, are certainly not specially appropriate bearers of good tidings. Moreover, the beautiful young women are too con- s nously enchanting. The landscapes are very delicately drawn and coloured.