CHRISTMAS CAROLS _IN THE SAME SERIES._ ENGLISH NURSERY RHYMES. Selected and Edited by L. EDNA WALTER. B.Sc. Harmonized by LUCY E. BROADWOOD. Illustrated by DOROTHY M. WHEELER. Containing 32 full-page illustrations in colour, decorative borders, and about 60 decorative headings and tail-pieces. Demy 4to (11-1/2 × 8-3/4 inches). SONGS FROM ALICE IN WONDERLAND AND THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS. Words by LEWIS CARROLL. Music by LUCY E. BROADWOOD. Illustrations by CHARLES FOLKARD. Containing 12 full-page illustrations in colour, decorative borders, and many small illustrations. Demy 4to, cloth. Published by A. & C. BLACK, Ltd., 4, 5, & 6, Soho Square, London, W.1. [Illustration] CHRISTMAS CAROLS Old English Carols for Christmas and other Festivals. SELECTED AND EDITED BY L. EDNA WALTER M.B.E., B.Sc., A.C.G.I. HARMONISED BY LUCY E. BROADWOOD ILLUSTRATED BY J.H. HARTLEY [Illustration] NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY, FIFTH AVENUE. LONDON: A. & C. BLACK, LIMITED, 4, 5, & 6, SOHO SQUARE. _This book is dedicated to ELIZABETH because she rather liked it._ Published, Autumn, 1922. FOREWORD [Illustration: FOREWORD GLORIA EXCELSIS DEO] Special times or events have been celebrated from time immemorial by feasting, dancing, and singing. Often the dancers formed a ring and sang as they danced, first the dance and later the song being called a carol. The carol was not always strictly religious, although in the old times both the singing and dancing often took place in cathedrals and churches. Some of the carols that we still know are connected with times before the Christian era. They have now lost their dance and the melody has changed, but the ideas are very ancient. The Holly and the Ivy suggest the old Druids, and we still put up Holly and Ivy in our houses just as people did before the time of Christ. We put them up at Christmas, and we sing the carol at Christmas—but the idea at the back of it is older than Christmas, for the Church accepted all that was found to be of value in the old customs, and adapted them to set forth the newer faith. The carrying in of the Boar’s Head is an old ceremony, too. It was considered a Royal Dish, and Henry II. ordered it to appear at a special feast which he gave in honour of his son.