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| Is there a Santa Claus? | [v] |
| An Editorial by the late Frank P. Church in the New York Sun. | |
| Christmas Greens | [1] |
| Adapted from Some Curiosities of Popular Customs by William S. Walsh. | |
| I Saw Three Ships come Sailing in | [2] |
| A Kentish Version of an old English Christmas Carol. | |
| The Angels and the Shepherds | [4] |
| The Gospel Story as in the Children’s Series of the Modern Reader’s Bible, edited by R. G. Moulton. | |
| While Shepherds Watched | [6] |
| The famous Christmas hymn written in about 1700 and attributed to Nahum Tate. | |
| The Wise Men from the East | [7] |
| The Gospel Story as in the Children’s Series of the Modern Reader’s Bible, edited by R. G. Moulton. | |
| Strooiavond in Holland | [9] |
| Adapted from Holland by Beatrix Jungman in the Peeps at Many Lands Series, with one paragraph simplified from Servia and the Servians by Chedo Mijatovich. | |
| How St. Nicholas came To Volendam | [12] |
| From the volume on Holland by Beatrix Jungman in the Peeps at Many Lands Series. | |
| Keeping Christmas in the Old Way | [16] |
| From an entertaining old pamphlet published in 1740 entitled “Round about Our Coal Fire, or Christmas Entertainments,” quoted in Christmas: Its Origin and Associations by W. F. Dawson. | |
| As Joseph was A-walking | [20] |
| An Old English Christmas Carol known as The Cherry-tree Carol. In many versions another stanza said to be of later origin is added. | |
| The “Jule-Nissen” and Blowing in the Yule | [21] |
| From The Old Town by Jacob A. Riis, copyright by The Macmillan Company, 1909. | |
| Christmas Eve in Merry England | [23] |
| From Marmion by Sir Walter Scott. | |
| When Christmas was not Merry | [25] |
| Compiled from Christmas: Its Origin and Associations by W. F. Dawson, and from general sources. | |
| Going Home for Christmas | [28] |
| From Old Christmas at Bracebridge Hall by Washington Irving. | |
| God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen | [31] |
| An Old English Carol. | |
| The Date of Russia’s Christmastide | [33] |
| Compiled from general sources, and in part from Russia by L. Edna Walter in the Peeps at Many Lands Series. | |
| St. Barbara’s Grain | [37] |
| Adapted from an unsigned article in Macmillan’s Magazine and from creole folk-lore. | |
| Before the Paling of the Stars | [38] |
| By Christina Rossetti. | |
| A Midnight Mass in France | [39] |
| Adapted from an article in Macmillan’s Magazine with added details drawn from an article in The Century by Mme. Th. Bentzon. | |
| The Christchild and the Pine Tree | [42] |
| A weaving together of bits of folk-lore drawn chiefly from The Child and Childhood in Folk-thought by Alexander F. Chamberlain. | |
| A Birthday Gift | [44] |
| Part of a hymn for children by Christina Rossetti. | |
| The Christmas Fire in Servia | [45] |
| Adapted from Servia and the Servians by Chedo Mijatovich. | |
| The Day of the Little God | [47] |
| From Servia and the Servians by Chedo Mijatovich. | |
| Nature Folk-lore of Christmastide | [50] |
| Compiled from several sources, including The Old Town by Jacob A. Riis and magazine articles. | |
| Good King Wenceslas | [53] |
| An Old English Carol in the version by John Mason Neale. | |
| A Mexican “Mystery” seen by Bayard Taylor | [54] |
| From Eldorado by Bayard Taylor. | |
| Breaking the Piñate | [57] |
| Collated from Mexico, the Wonderland of the South by W. E. Carson, copyright by The Macmillan Company, 1909. | |
| Christmas upon a Greenland Iceberg | [59] |
| Collated from Christmas: Its Origin and Associations by W. F. Dawson, and The Great White North by Helen S. Wright. | |
| Luther’s Christmas Carol for Children | [61] |
| Translator unknown. | |
| The Good Night in Spain | [63] |
| Adapted from the account by Ferdinand Caballero, translated by Katharine Lee Bates. | |
| A Christmas Tree in Japan | [66] |
| From Letters from Japan by Mary Crawford Fraser, copyright by The Macmillan Company, 1899. | |
| From Far Away | [72] |
| A Christmas Carol by William Morris. | |
| Lordings, Listen to our Lay | [73] |
| A fragment of the earliest existing carol; sung in the thirteenth century. | |
| Where the Christmas Toys come From | [74] |
| Compiled from general sources, including In Toyland, an article in The Royal Magazine, copyright by C. Arthur Pearson, Ltd. | |
| The Making of a Christmas Doll | [76] |
| The material of this article also has been drawn from The Royal Magazine by permission of its publishers, C. Arthur Pearson, Ltd. | |
| Irina’s Day on the Estates | [79] |
| Adapted from Russia by L. Edna Walter in the Peeps at Many Lands Series. | |
| A Visit from St. Nicholas | [83] |
| By Clement C. Moore. | |
| The Cratchits’ Christmas Dinner | [85] |
| From A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. | |
| After the Christmas Dinner | [88] |
| From The Old Town by Jacob A. Riis, copyright by The Macmillan Company, 1909. | |
| Hang up the Baby’s Stocking | [89] |
| Author unknown. | |
| A German Christmas | [90] |
| Collated from Home Life in Germany by Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick, Music Study in Germany by Amy Fay, and Elizabeth and Her German Garden. | |
| Crowded Out | [95] |
| By Rosalie M. Jonas. | |
| An English “Adoration” | [96] |
| Adapted from The Children’s Book of Art by Miss A. E. Conway and Sir Martin Conway. | |
| The Children’s Own Saint | [99] |
| Based on legends chiefly drawn from Curiosities of Popular Customs by W. S. Walsh. | |
| The Befana Fair in Rome | [102] |
| From Ave Roma Immortalis by F. Marion Crawford, copyright by The Macmillan Company, 1898. | |
| The Golden Carol | [104] |
| An Old English Epiphany Carol. | |
| Babouscka | [105] |
| By Carolyn S. Bailey. Copyright by the Milton Bradley Company. Reprinted by permission from For the Children’s Hour. | |
| The Three Kings | [107] |
| Adapted by permission from The Memoirs of Mistral, copyright by the Baker and Taylor Company, 1907. | |
| Christmas Peace | [110] |
| From The Little City of Hope by F. Marion Crawford, copyright by The Macmillan Company, 1907. | |