Christmas Cards and Their Chief Designers

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. To translatethis laudable intention into dull facts, to note the ridiculously insincere feeling underlying the custom, would be easy enough: too easy, indeed, for the most cynical person to care to attempt. Every body is able to search his own memory and discover the very remote resemblance between the idea which governs the sending of a card and the actual reason for its dismissal; but not ing that it undoubtedly owes its origin to the birth of the Christ child, it is odd to find in how comparatively few instan ces it recognises, even remotely, that it is not a secular but a sacred function which is being celebrated.