Chapter X: New Year

New Year _Richard Watson Gilder_ 298

Midnight Mass for the Dying Year _Henry W. Longfellow_ 299

The Death of the Old Year _Alfred Tennyson_ 301

A New Year's Carol _Martin Luther_ 303

New Year's Resolutions "_Elizabeth_" 303

Love and Joy come to You _Old English Carol_ 305

Ring Out, Wild Bells _Alfred Tennyson_ 307

New Year's Eve, 1850 _James Russell Lowell_ 308

Rejoicings upon the New Year's Coming of Age _Charles Lamb_ 309

New Year's Rites in the Highlands _Charles Rogers_ 315

The Chinese New Year _H. C. Sirr_ 316

New Year's Gifts in Thessaly _J. Theodore Bent_ 319

"Smashing" in the New Year _Jacob Riis_ 322

New Year Calls in Old New York _William S. Walsh_ 323

Sylvester Abend in Davos _John Addington Symonds_ 325

XI

TWELFTH NIGHT--EPIPHANY

"Now have Good Day!" _Old English Carol_ 337

A Twelfth Night Superstition _Barnaby Googe_ 338

Twelfth-Day Table Diversion _John Nott_ 339

The Blessing of the Waters _J. Theodore Bent_ 341

La Galette du Roi _William Hone_ 344

Drawing King and Queen _Universal Magazine_ 345

St. Distaff's Day and Plough Monday _Hone's Year Book_ 346