ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thanks are due to the following publishers for permission to reprint poems: Houghton Mifflin Company for "King Olaf's Christmas" by H. W. Longfellow, "Night of Marvels" by Violante Do Ceo; Paul Elder & Company for "The Christmas Tree" by H. S. Russell, "At Christmas Time"; Edgar S. Werner & Company for "The Christmas Sheaf" by Mrs. A. M. Tomlinson; John Lane Company for "A Palm Branch from Palestine" by M. Y. Lermontov; American Ecclesiastical Review for "The Eve of Christmas" by Pope Leo XIII; E. P. Dutton & Company for "The Voice of the Christ-child" by Phillips Brooks.

Mary P. Pringle

Clara A. Urann


CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I. [Yule-Tide of the Ancients][13]
II. [Yule-Tide in England][30]
III. [Yule-Tide in Germany][55]
IV. [Yule-Tide in Scandinavia][75]
V. [Yule-Tide in Russia][103]
VI. [Yule-Tide in France][120]
VII. [Yule-Tide in Italy][132]
VIII. [Yule-Tide in Spain][148]
IX. [Yule-Tide in America][168]
[Index][199]