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effects at an astonishingly low price. Raphael's " Madonna "

and Raeburn's " Boy with the Rabbit " and the French line engravings are particularly good. The Medici Society's Cata- logue will be useful to anyone sending a number of Christmas cards. The British Museum's Christmas cards must also be mentioned and as usual recommended. Simon Bening of Bruges's sixteenth-century miniature, " Gardening and Felling Trees," makes a charming illustration, as also does " The Last Supper " from a fifteenth-century Book of Hours executed for John, Duke of Bedford. These at 1s. each or packets of smaller cards are wonderfully good value and the enterprise of the British Museum is worthy of all praise.