CHRISTMAS CARDS
- We haVe- from _the Medici
Society, the Trustees of the British Museum, Messrs._ J. Ward, Messrs. Heifer, Messrs. C. W. Faulkner,- Messrs. - Michael Joseph and–Messrs. Mowbray, selections from their Christmas Cards and Calendars for 1937, at prices
ranging from- Id. to 7s - Messrs. MiChael Joseph are the-0W One Of these firms whom the conservative can accuse of originality : they have produced a dozen grim little drawings by Mr. Arthur Wragg, with warnings drawn from biblical texts, which in their reference to political horrors and economic injus- tice strike a note as far as possible removed from conventional tokens of seasonal good will. At the other ex- treme are Messrs. Faulkner and Messrs. Heifer, both employing (Messrs. Heifer rather the more gaily of the two) the usual symbols and no doubt appealing successfully to those who like thc mixture as before. Many of .Messrs. Ward's cards are in the same vein, though they have introduced- a very pleasant new series of cards repro- ducing some of the Shell posters of English scenes. Of the British Museum cards that have reached us the most agreeable are a set of Turner. water- colours and a set of rural scenes from the Luttrell Psalter. The Medici Society's cards are, as usual, in a different class from -,the others. They have produced this- year some exceptionally attractive reproductions of paintings by European Blasters, among them van Gogh, de Hooch, Ronington and Leitch (the card Ninth his" Edinburgh From the Mound" is probably the best of the year). Their calenders, too, are much the most attractive. Messrs. Mowbray's cards and - calendars are exclusively devo- tional. Sonic of their more expensive cards are well enough produced, Nit their calendars have no pretensions to beauty.
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