With Scenic and Costume Designs
by
ROBERT EDMOND JONES
Together with
Three Monographs on the Masque
written by
the Author, the Scenic Designer,
and
ARTHUR FARWELL
Composer of the Music
To
Those Friendly Thousands
of Men, Women and Children
in American Towns and Cities, Who Have
Shared With the Author in His Masques
a Common Devotion to the Happy Cause
of a Communal Art
This Masque is Dedicated
in Christmas Fellowship
PREFACE
Always an evergreen tree points up at a star.
Always a star looks somewhere down on the cradle of a child.