CHRISTMAS CARDS
The elements reman fr. endly, the weather persistently clement. It is all wrong, but the Christmas cards this year restore the seasonal background to a seemly hostility. Never were such storms for the undoing of orphans, such lonely dawns, such drifts of snow lying around, deep and thick and even. It will all be most comforting to contemplate on the mantelpiece as one turns on the gas-tap and applies a match to the synthetic yule-log. There is no longer any excuse for returning a mean- ingless garland of roses, or cows in the Highlands, even to those who catch one out unexpectedly, and drive one on Christmas eve to the village grocery shop and post office to retaliate. On all hands, apparently, are well-designed, amusing cards, or pleasing sober reproductions. The British Museum has an excellent inexpensive array of these. The Medici Society's are so good they would be almost an embarrassment to receive and it would certainly be impossible to consign them harshly to the waste-paper-basket on Twelfth Night. Messrs. Heifer's Cantabrigia Christmas Cards are particularly successful in avoiding the sentimental and conventional. The Grenfell Association offer not only good cards, but also the opportunity in purchasing them of furthering the work of Sir Wilfrid Gren- fell's mission in Labrador and Northern Newfoundland. The Ward Gallery most admirably offer the work of good contem- porary artists. The Favil Press have let Ursula Berstingl design scenes from the London parks with a lively pencil. Then there are the calendars. Country Life offer what seem to be hundreds of pleasant photographs in theirs. Wherever you are there is a picture of somewhere else where you would be happier. There is an interesting Naturalists' Calendar from M. C. Forrester. From Messrs. Faulkner you may have Great Thoughts or Witty Thoughts at c.hpice. From Messrs. Mowbray come cards and calendars of a devotional nature.
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