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Bringing in the Yule Log | [Frontispiece] |
The Herald Angels | [2] |
Virgin and Child | [5] |
Joseph Taking Mary to be Taxed, and the Nativity Events | [6] |
The Nativity (Central portion of Picture in National Gallery) | [8] |
Virgin and Child (Relievo) | [9] |
Group from the Angels' Serenade | [10] |
Adoration of the Magi (From Pulpit of Pisa) | [11] |
"The Inns are Full" | [14] |
Grape Gathering and the Vintage (Mosaic in the Church of St. Constantine, Rome, A.D. 320) | [16] |
German Ninth Century Picture of the Nativity | [16] |
Ancient Roman Illustrations | [17] |
Ancient Roman Illustrations | [18] |
Ancient Agape | [19] |
Ancient Roman Illustrations | [21] |
Early Celebrations in Britain | [23] |
Queen Bertha | [27] |
An Ancient Fireplace | [30] |
Traveling in the Olden Time, with a "Christmas Fool:on the Front Seat | [31] |
The Wild Boar Hunt: Killing the Boar | [32] |
Adoration of the Magi (Picture of Stained Glass, WinchesterCathedral) | [34] |
A King at Dinner | [40] |
Blind Minstrel at a Feast | [42] |
Minstrels' Christmas Serenade at an Old Baronial Hall | [44] |
Westminster Hall | [46] |
Strange Old Stories Illustrated (From Harl. MS.) | [50] |
A Cook of the Period (Early Norman) | [55] |
Monk Undergoing Discipline | [56] |
Wassailing at Christmastide | [57] |
Panoply of a Crusader | [58] |
Royal Party Dining in State | [63] |
Ladies Looking from the Hustings upon the Tournament | [73] |
The Lord of Misrule | [74] |
Curious Cuts of Priestly Players in the Olden Time | [76] |
A Court Fool | [77] |
Virgin and Child (Florentine, 1480. South Kensington Museum) | [83] |
Henry VI.'s Cradle | [84] |
Lady Musician of the Fifteenth Century | [91] |
Rustic Christmas Minstrel with Pipe and Tabor | [92] |
Martin Luther and the Christmas Tree | [106] |
The Little Orleans Madonna of Raphael | [107] |
Magdalen College, Oxford | [110] |
Bringing in the Boar's Head with Minstrelsy | [111] |
Virgin and Child, Chirbury, Shropshire | [118] |
Riding a-Mumming at Christmastide | [121] |
A Dumb Show in the Time of Elizabeth | [123] |
The Fool of the Old Play (From a Print by Breughel) | [137] |
The Acting of one of Shakespeare's Plays in the Time ofQueen Elizabeth | [141] |
Neighbours with Pipe and Tabor | [147] |
Christmas in the Hall | [149] |
The Hobby-Horse | [197] |
Servants' Christmas Feast | [202] |
"The Hackin" | [216] |
Seafaring Pilgrims | [219] |
An Ancient Fireplace | [225] |
A Druid Priestess Bearing Mistletoe | [228] |
A Nest of Fools | [229] |
"The Mask Dance" | [231] |
The Christmas Mummers | [234] |
The Waits | [240] |
The Christmas Plum-Pudding | [245] |
Italian Minstrels in London, at Christmas, 1825 | [246] |
Snap Dragon | [247] |
Blindman's Buff | [249] |
The Christmas Dance | [250] |
The Giving Away of Christmas Doles | [257] |
Poor Children's Treat in Modern Times | [265] |
The Christmas Bells | [271] |
Wassailing the Apple-Trees in Devonshire | [279] |
Modern Christmas Performers: Yorkshire Sword-Actors | [282] |
Modern Christmas Characters: "St Peter," "St. Denys" | [283] |
A Scotch First Footing | [285] |
Provençal Plays at Christmastide | [320] |
Nativity Picture (From Byzantine Ivory in the British Museum) | [324] |
Calabrian Shepherds Playing in Rome at Christmas | [329] |
Worshipping the Child Jesus (From a Picture in the Museumat Naples) | [337] |
Angels and Men Worshipping the Child Jesus (From aPicture in Seville Cathedral) | [338] |
Simeon Received the Child Jesus into his Arms (FromModern Stained Glass in Bishopsgate Church, London) | [348] |
Lichfield Cathedral | [349] |
While shepherds watched their flocks by night, All seated on the ground; The angel of the Lord came down, And glory shone around. Carol.