The Baron's assistant dives into the Christmas Card Basket, and produces RAPHAEL TUCK AND SONS,--"Tuck," a schoolword dear to "our boys,"--who lead off the Christmas dance. Daintily and picturesquely got up, their Cards are quite full. Their Watteau Screens will serve as small ornaments afterwards. These "Correct Cards," with few exceptions, are not particularly for Christmas, but for all time. Here's Luck To RAPHAEL TUCK! "Todgers's could do it when it liked," and so can Messrs. HUTCHINSON & Co. at this Fairy Tale time, when they bring out three capital books, edited by ALFRED H. MILES; _i.e._, _Fifty-two Fairy Tales_, _Fifty-two other Stories for Boys_, and _Fifty-two other Stories for Girls_. Why not Fairy Tales for a holiday task, and an examination in Fairy Lore, with a Fairy Lore Degree for the successful candidate? Then come BLACKIE AND SONS with Plenty from HENTY--Mr. G. A. HENTY--who at Christmas-time is anything but a "Non-Henty-ty." _Beric the Briton_, _In Greek Waters_, _Condemned as a Nihilist!_--"Go it, HENTY!" The Baron cheers you onward. [Illustration: A NORSE TALE.] _The Thirsty Sword_, by ROBERT LEIGHTON. It's a killing story. _An Old-Time Yarn_, by EDGAR PICKERING, about the adventures of DRAKE and HAWKINS. HAWKINS, mariner, not Sir 'ENRY, the Judge. New yarn. Strong old salts--very refreshing. _The Bull Calf_, brought out for JOHN BULL JUNIOR'S amusement at Christmas, and seasonably illustrated by FROST, is a queer sort of animal of the Two Macs Donkey breed. Right for NIMMO to have some fun at Christmas, according to old example, "_Nimmo mortalium omnibus horis sapit._" What's in a name? not the first time this question has been asked and answered--but 'tis impossible for the Baron to avoid quoting it now, when in consequence of its title, he was within an ace of putting aside _The Germ Growers_, under the impression that it was a scientific work on Bacillus and Phylloxera. On taking it up, however, the Baron soon became deeply interested, but was subsequently annoyed to find how the artful author had beguiled him by leading up to a kind of imitation of the _In hoc Signo vinces_ legend, and had somewhat adroitly adapted to his purpose the imagery of one of the most poetic and sublime of ancient Scripture narratives; _i.e._, where the prophet sees the chariots of Israel in the air. One remarkable thing about the romance is the absence of "love-motive," and, indeed, the absence of all female interest. Here and there the Canon writes carelessly, as instance the following paragraph:-- "Then he got a little glass-tube into which he put something out of a very small bottle, which he took from a number of others which lay side by side in a little case which he took out of a pocket in the side of the car."