CHRISTMAS CARDS AND CALENDARS.—The Medici Scciety publishes some attractive Christmas
cards with coloured repro. ductions of pictures by Mr. Arming Bell, Miss Forteseue-Brickdale, and other artists, and some neat hanging calendats—one of them bearing quotations from R. L. Stevenson's writings.— Messrs. Percy Lund, Humphries, and Co., of Bradford, have issued a series of Christmas cards, with coloured designs by Mr. Levet Fraser and other young artists, and poems now and old.— From Messrs. Thomas De La Rue we have several editions of the Onoto Diary, a handy and practical little book.—The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge publishes the Churchman's Pocket Book—a good diary—and the Churchman's Abnatsack in various forms, as well as a hanging calendar with a quotation for every day in the year.—Mesere. Burns, Oates, and Washbourne publish the Catholic Almanac k, a useful compilation for members of the Roman Church.—We may commend also the From Friend to Friend Ealendar, published by Messrs. Simpkin,Marshall, which gives a long quotation for each int nth and is neatly printed.