"BLACK AND WHITE."
CHRISTMAS NUMBER
Tite Christmas number of "Black and White" is now published. It is undoubtedly one of the finest' of tho season's many illustrated periodicals. Its short tales and verses are the productions of famous living authors, and will furnish some hours of delightful occupation for all classes of society. Bub the pictures, the handsome engravings in tints of green, fawn and heavenly blue, these alone would beautify any parlour table in the colony, and prove an endless source of entertainment to callers. The study on the frontispiece represents a family group gathered round the Christmas fire, whoso reflective glow illumines their earnest faces. Besides handsome and effective illustrations to reading matter, there are numerous full-page blocks in tho above-mentioned shades. Accompanying each number i 3 a handsomo oleograph of Mrs Siddons, the well known actress, from a painting in the National Gallery. Buy the Christmas number of " Black and White " and you have made ono Christmas investment that you will continually rejoice in.
Tho number contains stories in tho best style of the following eminent novolists :-~ *' Sir Edward Orme," by Henry James ; "The Children of Tho Zodiac," by Rudyard Kipling ; "fn a Pioneer Restaurant," by Bret Harte. Other interesting matter of a descriptive nature appears.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 15, 19 January 1892, Page 2
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