CONTENTS

I.The Legend of the "White Gifts"—Phebe A. Curtiss[9]
II. Her Birthday Dream—Nellie C. King [13]
III. The Fir Tree—Hans Andersen—adapted by J. H. Stickney [25]
IV. The Little Match Girl—Hans Andersen [37]
V. Little Piccola—Nora A. Smith [41]
VI. The Shepherd's Story—Dr. Washington [47]
VII. The Story of Christmas—Nora A. Smith [63]
VIII. The Legend of the Christmas Tree—Lucy Wheelock [69]
IX. Little Jean—French of Francois Coppe. Translated by Nannie Lee Frayser [71]
X. How the Fir Tree Became the Christmas Tree—Aunt Hede in Kindergarten Magazine [77]
XI. The Magi in the West and Their Search for the Christ—Frederick E. Dewhurst [79]
XII. Little Gretchen and the Wooden Shoe—Elizabeth Harrison [93]
XIII. The Little Shepherd—Maud Lindsay [105]
IV. Babouscka—Carolyn S. Bailey [109]
XV. The Boy with the Box—May Griggs Van Voorhis [113]
XVI. The Worker in Sandal wood—Marjorie L. C. Pickthall [125]
XVII. The Shepherd Who Didn't Go—Jay T. Stocking [135]
XVIII. Paulina's Christmas—Adapted from Anna Robinson's "Little Paulina" [145]
XIX. Unto Us a Child Is Born—Phebe A. Curtiss [153]
XX. The Star—Florence M. Kingsley [159]