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House & Garden 
One of the early Enylish valentine writers 
—all for threepence, and the highly in¬ 
spirational frontispiece easily worth that 
by itself. A handy correspondence course 
like this must have been invaluable to the 
lovelorri of a day that knew not Beatrice 
Fairfax 
Fortunate indeed was the lady to whom 
February lAth brought as beautiful a piece 
of designing as the valentine to the right 
by Walter Crane. It is printed in gold and 
colors, and framed in the lace-paper the 
present generation has relegated almost 
entirely to candy boxes 
Below is a tricky one. with far more in it 
than appears to the casual and disinter¬ 
ested observer. One may be sure that She 
looked a second time and found the string 
device lohich reveals an altar and flaming 
heart behind the apparently innocent rose- 
petals 
The Cruikshayikian frontispiece of this 
chap-book is suggestive of the title-page of 
a Victorian novel, and may forecast the so- 
called comic broadsides whose day as val¬ 
entines is happily almost past. The sub¬ 
title, “Valentines for Trades.” aioakens 
one's curiosity 
The flora depicted in the center below are 
near relatives to the crewel-work blooms 
which once helped solve the problem of 
vocations for women. They may leave you 
never so cold, but they made some one's 
heart beat faster back around 1858, gera- 
nium leaf and all 
What could be more pleasingly feminine 
than this chaste and dainty valentine of 
the Dresden china school, with the auto¬ 
graph-album chirography. It is one of the 
earliest valentines made in America and 
is dated about 1848 
