A Christmas Carmen.................... _John G. Whittier_ The Spirit Of Christmas............... _Charles Dickens_ On Good Wishes at Christmas........... _Friswell_ A Christmas Song...................... _William Cox Bennett_ Sery.................................. _Richard Watson Gilder_ A Christmas Song...................... _Tudor Jenks_ Christmas............................. _Alexander Smith_ Christmas Carol....................... _Phillips Brooks_ The End of the Play................... _William Makepeace Thackeray_ Christ's Nativity..................... _Henry Vaughan_ Christmas Dreams...................... _Christopher North_ Keeping Christmas..................... _Henry Van Dyke_ Mark Well My Heavy, Doleful Tale...... _Anonymous_ A Christmas Carol..................... _Christina G. Rossetti_ The Glorious Song of Old.............. _Edmund H. Sears_ A Christmas Carol for Children........ _Martin Luther_ On Santa Claus........................ _George A. Baker, Jr._ A Christmas Carol..................... _Josiah Gilbert Holland_ An Offertory.......................... _Mary Mapes Dodge_ Christmas Song........................ _Lydia A.C. Ward_ A Christmas Carol..................... _Christian Burke_ A Simple Bill of Fare for a Christmas Dinner.............. _H.H._ A Ballade of Old Loves................ _Carolyn Wells_ Ballade of Christmas Ghosts........... _Andrew Lang_ Hang Up the Baby's Stocking........... [Emily Huntington Miller] The Newest Thing in Christmas Carols.. _Anonymous_ A Christmas Letter from Australia..... _Douglas Sladen_ Christmas............................. _Rose Terry Cooke_ IV STORIES The Fir Tree.......................... _Hans Christian Andersen_ Little Roger's Night in the Church.... _Susan Coolidge_ Mr. Bluff's Experiences of Holidays... _Oliver Bell Bunce_ Santa Claus at Simpson's Bar.......... _Bret Harte_ V OLD CAROLS AND EXERCISES God Rest You, Merry Gentlemen Old Christmas Returned Christmas Carol In Excelsis Gloria The Boar's Head Carol Christmas Carol ADDITIONAL PIECES A Christmas Insurrection.............. _Anne P.L. Field_ The Night After Christmas............. _Anne P.L. Field_ When the Stars of Morning Sang........ _Anne P.L. Field_ A Prayer at Bethlehem................. _Anne P.L. Field_ The Christmas Fires................... _Anne P.L. Field_ The Mother (A Story).................. _Robert Haven Schauffler_ NOTE The Publishers desire to acknowledge the kindness of Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons; Houghton, Mifflin and Company; Little, Brown and Company; Dodd, Mead and Company; Bobbs-Merrill Company and others, who have granted us permission to reproduce selections from works bearing their copyright. PREFACE