The object that the publishers have in view is to bring before the public a CHRISTMAS ANNUAL worthy in every way of a place upon the Drawing-room Table, and also of a place in the hands of those who frequent the Drawing-room.
The FINE ART ANNUAL will contain Three Steel Plates and more than Thirty Wood Engravings, in illustration of a careful selection of Stories, Sketches, Poems, and Essays, made with a view to contributing, in more ways than one, to the pleasure of the Christmas Season.
A handsome CALENDAR, forming a record of facts relating to Literature and Art, will accompany the Annual.
_PREAMBLE._ By the EDITOR. With Two Illustrations.
=Story.=--_CISSIE’S COMING HOME._ By the Author of “The Blacksmith of Holsby,” “Spenser’s Wife,” &c., &c. With Four Illustrations.
=Poem.=--_MAMMY’S AIN BAIRN._ By MATTHIAS BARR. With an Illustration.
=Sketch.=--_PICKED UP ON THE COAST: A LITTLE PICTURE IN WORDS._ By an Obscure Artist. With Two Illustrations.
=Story.=--_UNCLE ARCHIE’S BANKRUPTCY: THE STORY OF A YEAR’S PROBATION._ By the Author of “His by Right,” “John Hesketh’s Charge,” &c., &c. With Two Illustrations.
=Humorous Poem.=--_MY SCHOOLFELLOWS._ By J. D. P.
=Essay.=--_SOME MOONLIGHT REFLECTIONS--OF TREES, STEEPLES, AND MEN._ A RIGMAROLE. By SAWER KRAWT, Author of a Considerable Quantity of Unpublished MSS. With Three Illustrations.
=Story.=--_TRUE STORY OF CINDERELLA--WITHOUT THE GLASS SLIPPER._ By G. J. PROCTOR. With Two Illustrations.
=Poem.=--_A VISION OF TOYS._ By ASTLEY H. BALDWIN. With an Illustration.
=Sketch.=--_A MERRIE CHRISTMAS: A VERY SMALL-BEER CHRONICLE FOR THE YOUNGSTERS._ By an ELDER BROTHER. With Two Illustrations.
_THE CALENDAR_, comprised within TWELVE pages, with beautifully designed and engraved Borders, illustrating the Months.
VIRTUE & CO., 26, IVY LANE, PATERNOSTER ROW, E.C.
[A] For drawings of the anemone see S. B. 87, E. B. 11, and P. F. 66.
[B] See Dr. Hooker “On the Vegetation of the Carboniferous Period,” _Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, &c._, vol. ii.
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