New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-12
CHRISTMAS CALENDARS.
Il Quantity of Ne5o and Pretty De-
signs.
signs.

From Raphael Tuck & Sons there reaches us,
usual when Christmas is approaching. a
heavy sheaf of calendars and Christmas cards
Conspicuous among the former, the most elabo-
rate of the offerings of the firm this year is a
large cardboard jardiniere, in profile, from
which energies a cluster of flowers, the petals of
which, when turned on pivots reveal the months
OF 1904. 1t is an ingenious scheme prettily car
ried out. The Sweet and Twenty" calendar is
made Of four heavy sheets of cardboard, each
bearing a portrait in cOlors of a feminine type
"Grecian Graces'' is illustrated with four pict-
ures of classical models. The "Forget-Me-Not''
calendar is made in the form of a little book
opened and mounted a board covered with
floral decorations, the leaves being held down
with blue ribbons This is one of the most ar
tistic of the new calendars The Tuck Christ
mas cards ara, as ever, varied. ranging from
comic designs to those that are sentimental or
more or less conventional.
The new Dutton calendars include several
charming designs. "a Paris Calendar" has de-
lightfuI illustrations in the style of Boutet de
Monvel. THE Venetian Calendar is well
adorned with sketches in color of scenes in
Venice. Among the calendars bearing religious
illustrations and quotations the Gloria in Ex-
celss'' is the artistic. 1t has a good re-
production of one of Fra Augelico's pictures.
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quaint in its pictures and very tasteful in color.
The calendar entitled Characters from Fic-
ton" with twelve portraits by a clever
draughtsman, whose identity is concealed be-
meath a kind of cipher signature, is the best
thing of it's kind which has been done since Mr..
Nicholson published his well known drawings.
The style of this artist is facile and humorous
He restricts himself to quiet tones save for a
vivid accent here and there, and he portrays
Mr. Micawber Mrs. Camp, Dominic Sampson
Bailie Ncol Jarvie, the Three Musketeers and
other famous personages with picturesqueness
and spirit. The months printed in white on
a green ground, and, with the illustrations, are
mounted on dark gray mats nearly two feet
high. Little Lovers is a Japanese design. The
buttons also publish some pretty booklets, thin
enough to be sent through the mails in place of
Christmas cards. and some handsome bits Of
pasteboard, made rather generous scale.
with verses and floral designs. These are ex-
ceIlent for purposes of decoration. Finally we
may mention the tiny boxes to be used for the
transmission of "a good luck COIN at the
Christmas season.
A good calendar for lovers of birds is 1.-The
Audubon Calendar" published by the Massa-
chusetts Audubon Society. Each sheet bears
picture of bird two, and the backs of
these sheets information about the little
Warblers is printed. The From Friend to
Friend Calendar" brought out by William S.
Lord, of Evanston, is a booklet with pages of
quotations from those who have written on the
theme of friendship in prose verse, facing
the pages giving the days of the month. It is
tastefully bound. The thin folio called Win
ter published by R. H. Russell, is not issued as
a Christmas card. but it would ideally serve
that purpose. 1t consists of exquisite photo
graphs Of winter landscapes by Mr. Rudolf
Eickemeyer, jr.. quotations from old and mod
ern poets accompanying the large and brilliant
halftones. This is a Christmas souvenir of I'M
usual beauty.