The Book of Christmas

Hamilton Wright Mabie

Macmillan Company, 1910 - Christmas - 369 pages

Contents

• The Time draws near the Birth of Christ Alfred Tennyson: 4
• In the Kitchen Old English Ballad II: 12
• A Christmas Market Mrs Alfred Sidgwick: 17
• The Pickwick Club goes down to Dingley Dell: 24
• Kriss Kringle Thomas Bailey Aldrich: 31
• The Christ Child Elise Traut: 38
• The Holy Night Correggio Frontispiece PAGE: 40
• Jean Valjean plays the Christmas Saint Victor Hugo: 42
• St Basil in Trikkola J Theodore Bent: 48
• Hunting the Wren Quoted by T K Hervey: 61
• Origin of the Christmas Card William S Walsh: 67
• The Bells Blashfield: 72
• Lame Needles in Eubea J Theodore Bent: 73
• saw Three Ships Old English Carol: 83
• The Golden Carol Old English Carol: 89
• From Far Away we come to you Old English Carol: 97
• The Unbroken Song Henry W Long fellow: 104
• Christmas in Dreamthorp Alexander Smith: 113
• Christmas Church Washington Irving: 119
• Dolly urges Silas Marner to go to Church George Eliot: 124
• The Mahogany Tree William Makepeace Thackeray: 132
• Wassailers Song Robert Southwell: 138
• VII: 162
• The Feast of the Ass William Hone: 168
• King Witlafs DrinkingHorn Henry W Long fellow: 175
• Christmas Night of 62: 188
• Christmas at Sea Robert Louis Stevenson: 200
• The First Christmas Tree in the Legation Compound Tokyo: 208
• Christmas Dinner in a Clippers Focsle: 227
• CHRISTMAS STORIES: 238
• The Christmas Banquet Nathaniel Hawthorne: 257
• A Christmas Eve in Exile Alphonse Daudet: 275
• New Year Richard Watson Gilder: 298
• Love and Joy come to You Old English Carol: 305
• New Years Rites in the Highlands Charles Rogers: 315
• Smashing in the New Year Jacob Riis: 322
• TWELFTH NIGHT EPIPHANY: 334
• La Galette du Roi William Hone: 344
• THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT: 348
• The Professors Christmas Sermon Robert Browning: 358
• A Prayer for Christmas Peace Charles Kingsley: 365

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Book of Christmas; The friendly library
• Editor: Hamilton Wright Mabie
• Illustrated by: George Wharton Edwards
• Contributor: Hamilton Wright Mabie
• Publisher: Macmillan Company, 1910
• Original from: Harvard University
• Digitized: Jan 23, 2009
• Length: 369 pages