"BLACK AND WHITE."

Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 21, 26 January 1892, Page 2

"BLACK AND WHITE."

CHRISTMAS NUMBER

The Christmas number of " Black and White" is now published. It is undoubtedly one of the finest of the Beason's many illustrated periodicals. Its short tales and verses are the productions of famous living authors, and will furnish eomo hours of delightful occupation for all classes of society. But 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 callere. The study on the frontispiece represents a family group gathered round the Christmas fire, whose reflective glow illumines their earnest faces. Besides handsome and effective illustrations to reading matter, there are numerous full-page blocks in the above-mentioned shades. Accompanying each number is a handsome oloograph 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 one Christmas investment that you will continually rojoice in. The number contains stories in the best etyle of the following eminent novelists: — " Sir Edward Orme," by Henry James; "The Children of The Zodiac," by Rudyard Kipling ; "In a Pioneer Restaurant," by Bret Harte. Other interesting matter of a descriptive nature ap■pours.