... annuals and all they stood for were passing rapidly. noted in February, 1853, the great change that had come over the literature for the holiday period. It used to be the custom to issue when Christmas approached an almost endless variety of Gifts, Remembrances, Gems, Tokens, Wreathes, Irises, Albums, &c, with very bad mezzotint engravings and worse letter-press,—ephemeral works, destined...