"BLACK AND WHITE."

Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 309, 31 December 1891, Page 2

"BLACK AND WHITE."

CHRISTMAS NUMBER. The Christmas number of "Black and White" is now published. It is un-j doubtedly one of the finest of the season's many illustrated periodicals. | Its short tales and verses aro the | productions of famous living authors, and \ will furnish some hours of delight-,' ful occupation for all classes of society. I But the picturee, the handsome engraving 3 | in tints of green, fawn and heavenly blue, I those alono would beautify any parlour j table in the colony, and prove an endless < source of entertainment to callers. | The study on the frontispieco represents aj ■ family group gathered round tho Christmas j fire, whoso reflective glow illumines their | earnest faces. Besides hanrisonio and j eflectivo illustrations to reading matter, j there are numerous full-page blocks! in the above-mentioned shades. Accom- j panving each number is a handsome oleo- ] graph of Mrs Siddons, tho well known j actross, from a painting in the National I Gallery. Buy the Christmas number of i •• Black and White" and you have made one Christmas investment that you will continually rejoice in. The number contains stories in the .best 1 style of the following eminent novelists :— ; "Sir Edward Orme," by Henry James; j " The Children of The Zodiac," by! Puudyard Kipling ; "In a Pioneer Rej- j taurant," by Bret Harte. Other interest- i ing matter ot" a descriptive nature appears.