"BLACK AND WHITE."

Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 305, 24 December 1891, Page 7

"BLACK AND WHITE."

CHRISTMAS NUMBER.

TitK Christmas number of " Black and White" is now published. It i≤ undoubtedly tmo of fciia finast of the season's many ill us tin feed periodicals. It 3 short tales and verses are tho productions of famous iiving authors, and will furnish some hours of delightful occupation for all classes of society. But, the pictures, the handsome engravings in tints ol green, fawn and heavenly blue, these aione ■would beautify any parlour table in the colony, sxnd prove an endless source of entertainment to calior3. The study on the frontispiece represents a family trroui.) gathered round the Christmas lire, whose relied ive glow illumines their earnest faces. Besides handsome aud eiFective illustrations to reading matter, there are nucnerous blocks in the above-mentioned shades. Accompanying ench number is a handsome oleograph of liUis Siddons, the well-known actress, from a painting in the National Gallery. The number contains stories in the best style of the following eminent novelists:— fSir Edwcrd Orme," by Henry James; "'The Children of the Zodiac,"' by Kudyard Kipling ; " In a Pioneer Restaurant," oy Bret Harto, Other interesting laufcter of a descriptive nature appears. Buy the Christmas number of "Black White," and you have made one Christmas inveatrneno that you will continually rejoice in. To be iind of the booksellers, or wholesale at bTAK office.