We stood there against the west, where bright doors seemed opening in the pouring gold of the sun, thick with shining dust. The glory seemed very near. Why not do something beautiful? Why not—why not....
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Christmas
By ZONA GALE
Author of “Mothers to Men,” “The Loves of Pelleas and Etarre.” Illustrated in colors by Leon Solon.
Decorated cloth, 12mo, $1.30 net; postpaid, $1.42
A town in the Middle West, pinched with poverty, decides that it will have no Christmas, as no one can afford to buy gifts. They perhaps foolishly reckon that the heart-burnings and the disappointments of the children will be obviated by passing the holiday season over with no observance. How this was found to be simply and wholly impossible, how the Christmas joys and Christmas spirit crept into the little town and into the hearts of its most positive objectors, and how Christmas cannot be arbitrated about, make up the basis of a more than ordinarily appealing novel. Incidentally it is a little boy who really makes possible a delightful outcome. A thread of romance runs through it all with something of the meaning of Christmas for the individual human being and for the race.
“A fine story of Yuletide impulses in Miss Gale’s best style.”—N. Y. World.
“No living writer more thoroughly understands the true spirit of Christmas than does Zona Gale.”—Chicago Record-Herald.
“‘Christmas’ is that rare thing, a Yuletide tale, with a touch of originality about it.”—N. Y. Press.
“The book is just the thing for a gift.”—Chicago Tribune.