Ancient Roman Illustrations 18 Ancient Agape 19 Ancient Roman Illustrations 21 Early Celebrations in Britain 23 Queen Bertha 27 An Ancient Fireplace 30 Traveling in the Olden Time, with a "Christmas Fool" on the Front Seat" 31 The Wild Boar Hunt: Killing the Boar 32 Adoration of the Magi (_Picture of Stained Glass, Winchester Cathedral_) 34 A King at Dinner 40 Blind Minstrel at a Feast 42 Minstrels' Christmas Serenade at an Old Baronial Hall 44 Westminster Hall 46 Strange Old Stories Illustrated (_From Harl. MS._) 50 A Cook of the Period (_Early Norman_) 55 Monk Undergoing Discipline 56 Wassailing at Christmastide 57 Panoply of a Crusader 58 Royal Party Dining in State 63 Ladies Looking from the Hustings upon the Tournament 73 The Lord of Misrule 74 Curious Cuts of Priestly Players in the Olden Time 76 A Court Fool 77 Virgin and Child (_Florentine, 1480. South Kensington Museum_) 83 Henry VI.'s Cradle 84 Lady Musician of the Fifteenth Century 91 Rustic Christmas Minstrel with Pipe and Tabor 92 Martin Luther and the Christmas Tree 106 The Little Orleans Madonna of Raphael 107 Magdalen College, Oxford 110 Bringing in the Boar's Head with Minstrelsy 111 Virgin and Child, Chirbury, Shropshire 118 Riding a-Mumming at Christmastide 121 A Dumb Show in the Time of Elizabeth 123 The Fool of the Old Play (_From a Print by Breughel_) 137 The Acting of one of Shakespeare's Plays in the Time of Queen Elizabeth 141 Neighbours with Pipe and Tabor 147 Christmas in the Hall 149 The Hobby-Horse 197 Servants' Christmas Feast 202