22 NOVEMBER 1890, Page 29

We have received from Messrs. Mowbray and Co., of Oxford,

A Selection of the Oxford Series of Christmas Cards. These are all, we need hardly say, of the serious kind. Many are photographs of famous pictures, accompanied with appropriate texts or sayings from the Fathers, or verses of hymns. These, we observe, are the more expensive; but none exceed the modest sum of sixpence. To get a really good little picture for that is what should content any purchaser. There is also a considerable choice of designs, engraved or lithographed, some coloured, some plain, and very low-priced indeed. The publishers have done well in bringing these tasteful little articles within the reach of the most slenderly furnished purse.