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Miscellaneous. Yp- 1 :TING cases and desks, test quality suit, able for birthday presents or oomjjli montory gifts, from 7s fid to £lO, witY Bramah looks. A very large assort* ment. About 100 patterns to select rom at _ Stephenson’s Stationery Ware nous 99 Oxford street London, W. SAMPLES GEATXS. PIER MAE ‘ The Finest Writing Paper. lON Apply, 23, Soho square W. for Specimen Sheets. Envelopes, sent gratis by post. To be had of all stationers and wholesale only o the Manufacturers MAEION & CO. ' London. THE J. W. STOAKES AUTOMATIC SHADING PEN, For Plain, Fancy, and Ornamental Lettering. i ESPECIALLY adapted for show card writing. *J engrossing, map work, and all kinds ol writing where elegance of style and finish is desired. It mokes the light and dark line at the same time with one single stroke of the pen. Manufactured in six different sizes. Packed one dozen of a- kind in a box. Also put up in sets containing one of each kind and one each of Nos. 1,2, and 3. No. 0, l-16th in wide. No. 1, iin wide. No. 2, 3*l6th in wide. No. 3, iin wide No. 4, fin wide. No. 5, tin wide, A special Ink is also manufactured in six brilliant colours, put up in boxes containing one dozen of a kind, also one dozen assorted in a box We also put up one pen of each size and three assorted bottles of ink in an elegant box, which makes a very convenient way to show the goods. Ttilt powders are also manufactured in some colours as the inks, and these con be transmitted through the mails. Circulars and samples sent on application. J. D, WHITMOEE & CO., Agents, 41, 43, and 45, Beekman, and Xfifi William streets. New York. WEBSTEE'S UNABRIDGED. In Sheep, Russia, and Turkey Bindings. \*7 - EBSTEE’S Unabridged Dictionary, new * V edition, with supplement. “A Library in Itself,” Get Webster —it has 118,000 words, 3000 engravings, and a new Biographical Dictionary. The Standard in Government Printing Office, 82,000 copies in Public Schools. Sale, 20 to lof any other senes. Best aid to make a family intelligent. Best help scholars, teachers, and schools. , ’ The • vocabulary contains 3000 more words than are found in any other American dictionary. It is the best practical English dictionary extant —“Quarterly Review," London. It has all along kept a leading place, and the new Edition brings it fairly up to date.—“ London Times," June, 1882. No school in the Dominion, no teacher, and no reader of the language, can afford to be without thin monumental work. —“Canada Educational Journal." It has come to be recognised as the most nsefu “word boot "of the English language, al over the world.—“N. Y. Tribune," 1882. G. & C. MERETATVT & CO., Publishers, . Springfield, Mass., U.S.A, Adams and co„ Patentees, Gum Eifle, and Revolver Manufacturers 9, Finsbury Place south, London, E.O. (Opposite Moorgate street station). Warehouse on first and second floors. Loaded cartridges, 1878. Eley's cases, pin or central fire, loaded by our selves with best powder,’grease-proof, thick fell and cloth wads. 12 gauge, with 3 or 3i drs and 1, It, or Ifcoz shot. ' 16 gauge, with 2} drs and 1 oz shot. Prices for, 12or;Ifieauge:.Green, 11s fid; blue, 10s 9d; ,“E.8." brown,-9s 9d« Schultze’a woodpowder, in best cases only, any charges up to fit drachms. Black powdet, 2,16, 18 range, 12s per 100. Stout packing cases, for transit by rail or sea, free of charge. Hammerless. A. and Co. invite special attention to an entirely new patent hammerless central-fire gun, which, for simplicity and strength, far surpasses anything yet produced. Price for best quality, including choke boring patent snap'fore-end'fastener, and (double bolted piston, £2l. Second quality £ls Centre-fire double guns. Best quality and finish, price £ls as usual Special notice. A. and Co. beg to inform those who are desirous of obtaining a gun combining the latest improvements, with really good sound material and workmanship. that we have Inst perfected what is’ undoubtedly by far the cheapest gun .in the trade, viz..— Central fire double-barrel gun, double grip action (12 bore only), rebound half-cocking looks, patent snap fore-end, choke-bore Damascus ~ barrels... £7 0 0 Cases and fittings complete 0 8 0 Every gun guaranteed. Express double and single barrel rifle, *577 and *6OO bores. Our improved Martini-Zeller rifles (880 bore) *”or rabbit and small deer shooting. Regulated to 100yds. Price £3. Terms cash with order. Bustrated price lists free by po Season 1884-1885 Season 1884-1885. L. PRANG & CO.’S 1 CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAE CARDS. TJTB beg to express our thanks to our patrons y f ana friends for the kind and flattering appreciation of our past efforts, and feel a pardonable pride at the very emphatic endorsement which our cards have received from the American, English, German, and Australian Press. With one accord These exponents of public taste have given our Cards the first rank over all similar productions in the market. We are bound to maintain this superiority; and we have, as heretofore, roared no expense ,to create, with the aid of our large experience, a seribs of novelties for the Christmas season, which, we;have no doubt, will,meet the expectations of the' trade. We have been singularly fortunate in procuring the assistance of, we may say. representative American talent in the preparation designs, and besides have secured ■the co-operationi of some of the most eminent European artists. Our.line is now completed, and our agents are or j the rood to call on our patrons and friends. An inspection of the sample books will convince them that, in regard to originality and variety of design, excellence and richness in execution, it far exceeds our last year’s effort. To give an idea of the high artistic order of the line, we would say that it comprises; Figure' Designs by Miss Dora Wheeler, Miss Bosina Emmet, Miss L. B. Humphrey, Miss L. B. Coming, Elihu Vedder, Walter Satterlee, A. F. Brooks and others. Landscape Designs by W. Hamilton Gibson, Thomas Moran, F. L. Smith, and others. Anlma Designs by B. E. Bensell an Harry Beard. : Flower and Bird Designs by Miss Fidelia Bridges MrsE. O. Whitney, Jean Robie, of Brussels; H Giocomelli, of Pans, and others. J The Literary matter in connection ’with our designs has been carefully attended to—among others, by Mrs Celia Thaxter, Mrs Emily Shaw Forman and Joaquin Miller. Our Regular Line of Christmas and New Year's Cards wifl’coinprise plain cards, fringe cards, and double friaged cards, varying in price from 30 cents to fiOdol per set of 12, Protectors are famished with all fringed cards, and also envelopes for all series costing I*Bo per se 1 and more. Besides our regular line, we would call specie attention to the following NOVELTIES AND SPECIALTIES. Aladdin’s Lamp.—This is one of the most elaborate and elegant Christinas Gift Cards we have ever ! offered to the trade. It is a large folding card, heavily fringed, and provided with a leatherette protector. The front outside page is a design of peacock feathers on satin; the left inside page contains a poem specially written for this gift by Joaquin Miller, also on satin, and surrounded by a, delicate border of oriental design; the right inside page presents Aladdin bearing his lamp, after a painting by the eminent American artist, Elihu Vedder; and to complete the whole, the hack is embellished with a most unique, artistic design of high order. Buskin Calendar for 1884.—At the solicitation of some of our business friends, we have this year decided to bring out a calendar, and are harpy to he able to announce that we shall issue a Calendar from John Buskin, for 1884. This consists of an artistic mount with a block calendar, having suitable selections from John Rnskin’s works for each day of the year.' The selections have been made by a lady well known for her cultivated taste and judg* ment. The mount has been designed by a well known Boston artist, and, coining from her. thought and tasteful skill, the form and decoration will he a fitting accompaniment to the words within; This calendar will be a source of pleasure to all wbo love and appreciate Buskin, that they may have every morning a jewel from the treasure of his noble anc earnest thought. ' “ The Christmas Sheaf.’’—A folding card, with inside pages, ih colour, stamped out in the shape o< a sheaf of,whe t; ■ Tied with silk cord and-tassels. “ The Chri-finaa Book."—A.snrprisingly natural represeutatiO' of on open hook, with floral designs’ by Mrs Fish- r, and original poems by Joaquin Miller, CHRISTMAS ART "PRINTS ON SATIN. The great success attending: our efforts in this line has induct’d ns to bring out a number, of new series, consisting of flowers, landscape, and figure designs. These are elegantly finished in several styles, in fringed tinted mats, .with cord and tassels; on mounts with silk fringe and cord; in book form, richly fringed and with leatherette protectors, and on rich plush mounts. Prices vary from Idol SOceats to fidols SOcents each. We have made large additions to our birthday Une, comprising plain cards, fringed and double (ringed cards, ana art prints on satin. Numerous series at popular prices have been added to onr list of Scripture text cards. Now flower pieces in mats. So. Thanksgiving cards—our lino will also he hown now* Descriptive Price Lists of our Christmas and New Year Cards are now ready, and will he sent on application. L. PBANG & CO., Boston, Mass U.S.A. New York: 38 Bond street. Philadelphia: 1110 Walnut street, Chicago: 113, Monroe street San Francisco: 529, Commercial street.