The Card Ornament Maker. (C. Adler, Hamburg ; Myers and
Co., London.)—This is an age for "manic," and from tho potichomanie of a few years ago down to the somewhat similar art now absorbing Parisian fashion, any kind of ladies' work which produces a slight effect at the cost of great ingenuity, taste, and labour, has been certain to become epidemic. The seven sheets of cardboard before us, however, so far reverse the usual characteristics of a "manic" as to promise a consider- ably effect at a very alight trouble. They comprise elaborately painted and gilt representations of card trays, flower baskets, jewel boxes, ttc., which, when carefully cut out and bent in lines perforated for the pur- pose, form themselves passable imitations of, if not actual substitutes for, the objects themselves. The idea is not quite new, but it is carried out with much taste and apparent practicability.
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