Index:Our American Holidays - Christmas.djvu

Title Our American Holidays - Christmas Author Translator Editor Robert Haven Schauffler Year 1949 Publisher   Dodd, Mead & Company Location New York Scans djvu Progress  Done—All pages of the work proper are validated Volumes Pages (key to Page Status) – – – – – – – – – – – – – –  i –  iii  iv  v  vi  vii  viii  ix  x  xi  xii  xiii – 001 002 003 004 005 006 007 008 009 010 011 012 013 014 015 016 017 018 019 020 021 022 023 024 025 026 027 028 029 030 031 032 033 034 035 036 037 038 039 040 041 042 043 044 045 046 047 048 049 050 051 052 053 054 055 056 057 058 059 060 061 062 063 064 065 066 067 068 069 070 071 072 073 074 075 076 077 078 079 080 081 082 083 084 085 086 087 088 089 090 091 092 093 094 095 096 097 098 099 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332

CONTENTS Preface i Introduction iii I ORIGIN Is there a Santa Claus? . . F.P. Church 3 O Little Town of Bethlehem . . Phillips Brooks 5 The Glad Evangel . . Kate Douglas Wiggin 7 The Shepherds . . William Drummond 8 A Christmas Carol . . James Russell Lowell 9 A Christmas Hymn . . Alfred Domett 10 Sons of the Morning . . Reginald Heber 12 God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen . . Dinah Maria Mulock 13 The Christmas Silence . . Margaret Deland 14 A Christmas Lullaby . . John Addington Symonds 15 Hymn for the Nativity . . Edward Thring 16 Masters in the Hall . . Anonymous 18 The Adoration of the Wise Men . . Cecil Frances Alexander 20 The Shepherds in Judea . . Mary Austin 21 Christmas Carol . . James S. Park 23 Neighbors of the Christ Night . . Nora Archibald Smith 24 Cradle Hymn . . Isaac Watts 25 An Ode on the Birth of Our Saviour . . Robert Herrick 27 Christmas Song . . Edmund Hamilton Sears 28 A Hymn on the Nativity of My Saviour . . Ben Jonson 29 The Shepherd's Song . . Edmund Bolton 30 A Christmas Carol . . Aubrey de Vere 32 A Christmas Hymn . . Anonymous 33 Christmas Day . . Charles Wesley 35 Christmas . . Anonymous 36 Christmas . . Nahum Tate 37 "While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night" . . Margaret Deland 38 The Star Song . . Robert Herrick 39 Colonial Christmases . . Alice Morse Earle 41 The Angels . . William Drummond 43 Hymn for Christmas . . Felicia Hemans 44 New Prince, New Pomp . . Robert Southwell 45 The Three Kings . . Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 46 Hymn on the Nativity . . John Milton 49 II CELEBRATION Christmas Eve at Mr. Wardle's . . Charles Dickens 63 A Visit from St. Nicholas . . Clement C. Moore 68 A Christmas Piece . . Fred S. Cozzens 73 Wassailer's Song . . Robert Southwell 75 Christmas Eve . . Hamilton Wright Mabie 77 Christmas in the Olden Time . . Walter Scott 84 Sly Santa Claus . . Mrs. C. S. Stone 86 The Waits . . Margaret Deland 88 The Knighting of the Sirloin . . Anonymous 89 The Christmas Goose at the Cratchits' . . Charles Dickens 91 God Bless Us Every One . .James Whitcomb Riley 94 Bells Across the Snow . . Frances Ridley Havergal 95 Christmas Bells . . Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 96 Minstrels and Maids . . . . . William Morris 98 Inexhaustibility of the Subject of Christmas . . Leigh Hunt 101 Song of the Holly . . . . William Shakespeare 108 Under the Holly-Bough . . . . Charles Mackay 109 Ceremonies for Christmas . . . . Robert Herrick 110 Santa Claus . . . Anonymous 111 The Ceremonies for Christmas Day . . Robert Herrick 112 December . . Harriet F. Blodgett 113 The Festival of St. Nicholas . .Mary Mapes Dodge 115 The Christmas Holly . . . Eliza Cook 123 To the Fir-Tree . . . From the German 125 The Mahogany-Tree . . William Makepeace Thackeray 125 Christmas . . Washington Irving 129 Church Decking At Christmas . . .William Wordsworth 137 So, Now is Come Our Joyful’st Feast . . George Wither 138 Fairy Faces . . . . Anonymous 140 Merry Christmas . . Anonymous 141 A Merry Christmas to You . . Theodore Ledyard Cuyler 143 Christmas Bells . . Anonymous 147 The Birth of Christ . . . . . Alfred Tennyson 151 The Christmas Carol . . . William Wordsworth 152 Christmas At Fezziwig’s Warehouse . .Charles Dickens 155 Christmas Bells . . .., John Keble 158 III SIGNIFICANCE AND SPIRIT A Christmas Carmen . . . . John G. Whittier 161 The Spirit of Christmas . . . . Charles Dickens 162 On Good Wishes At Christmas . . . . . Friswell 165 A Christmas Song . . . . William Cox Bennett 168 Sery . . ...... Richard Watson Gilder 169 A Christmas Song . . . . . . Tudor Jenks 170 Christmas . . ....... Alexander Smith 171 Christmas Carol . . ..... Phillips Brooks 179 The End of the Play . . William Makepeace Thackeray 180 Christ’s Nativity . . .... Henry Vaughan 184 Christmas Dreams . . . . . Christopher North 186 Keeping Christmas . . .... Henry Van Dyke 204 Mark Well My Heavy, Doleful Tale . . .......... Anonymous 206 A Christmas Carol . . . . . Christina G. Rossetti 208 The Glorious Song of Old . . . Edmund H. Sears 209 A Christmas Carol for Children . .......... Martin Luther 211 On Santa Claus . . . . . George A. Baker. 213 A Christmas Carol . . ...... Josiah Gilbert Holland 219 An Offertory . . ..... Mary Mapes Dodge 220 Christmas Song . . ,... Lydia A. C. Ward 220 A Christmas Carol . . .... Christian Burke 221 A Simple Bill of Fare for a Christmas Dinner . . ............ H. H. 223 A Ballade of Old Loves . . . . Carolyn Wells 227 Ballade of Christmas Ghosts . . . Andrew Lang 228 Hang Up the Baby’s Stocking . . ...... 230 The Newest Thing in Christmas Carols . . ......... Anonymous 231 A Christmas Letter From Australia . . ......... Douglas Sladen 232 Christmas . . ...... Rose Terry Cooke 235 IV STORIES The Fir Tree . . . . Hans Christian Andersen 241 Little Roger’s Night in the Church . .......... Susan Coolidge 256 Mr. Bluff’s Experiences of Holidays . . ........ Oliver Bell Bunce 270 Santa Claus At Simpson’s Bar . . . Bret Harte 282 V OLD CAROLS AND EXERCISES God Rest You Merry Gentlemen . . ..... 297 Old Christmas Returned . . ....... 301 Christmas Carol . . .......... 302 In Excelsis Gloria . . .......... 303 The Boar’s Head Carol . . ....... 304 Christmas Carol . . .......... 304 ADDITIONAL PIECES A Christmas Insurrection . . . . Anne P. L. Field 311 The Night After Christmas . . . Anne P. L. Field 313 When the Stars of Morning Sang . . .......... Anne P. L. Field 316 A Prayer at Bethlehem . . . . Anne P. L. Field 317 The Christmas Fires . . . . . Anne P. L. Field 317 The Mother (A Story) . . Robert Haven Schauffler 321 POTM