21 OCTOBER 1893, Page 24

Messrs. Mowbray, of Oxford and London, send us a collection

of Word Christmas Cards, varying in price from sixpence to a penny. All seem to be well worth the money, the cheapest being, perhaps, the most conspicuously so. It would not be easy for a non-expert to distinguish them, were he required to arrange them in order of cost. They have also, it should be said, the common character of ecclesiastical decoration. The illustrations are repro- ductions of well-known pictures, mostly from the Old Masters, monograms, and symbols. The words are texts, mottoes, and religious verse,