10 NOVEMBER 1888, Page 25

Ciraxerrmas AND NEW YEAR's CARDS are already coming out. The

Religious Tract Society send us some Christmas and New Year's Cards containing coloured pictures and religious verse ; a good many illustrated prettily with Syrian flowers ; a "Frederick Laugbridge" series, containing verses from that skilful popular poet, a "Scripture Text" series, and a "Christmas Wishes" aeries, and "A New Year Message" series, illustrated by Mary E. Ropes : also folding cards, with poems by Charlotte Elliott and others.—Messrs. Hildesheimer and Faulkner (41 Jewin Street) have sent us some "Opal Cards," which have a very good effect, also "Photographic Opal Souvenirs," "Embossed Shell," &c. Some of these are really very effective works of art.