Index:Our American Holidays - Christmas.djvu

Title	Our American Holidays - Christmas
Editor	Robert Haven Schauffler
Year	1949
Publisher	Dodd, Mead & Company
Address	New York
Source	djvu
Progress	Done—All pages of the work proper are validated

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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

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