Transcriber's Note
1. There is an editorial error in the original edition of this book: "The Star Song" by Robert Herrick is listed in the Table of Contents but not included in the text. For this edition "The Star Song" was removed from the Table of Contents.
2. In the "Inexhaustibility of the Subject of Christmas" by Leigh Hunt the following sentence:
"There are two p's, observe, in plenipotential; and so there are in
plum-pudding. We love an exquisite fitness,—a might and wealth of
adaptation).
is transcribed:
(There are two p's, observe, in plenipotential; and so there are in
plum-pudding. We love an exquisite fitness,—a might and wealth of