Chapter XII: The Christmas Spirit

"As Little Children in a Darkened Hall" _Charles Henry Crandall_ 350

Christmas Dreams _Christopher North_ 351

The Professor's Christmas Sermon _Robert Browning_ 358

Awaiting the King _F. Marion Crawford_ 359

Elizabeth's Christmas Sermon "_Elizabeth_" 361

Nichola's "Reason Why" _Zona Gale_ 362

The Changing Spirit of Christmastide _Washington Irving_ 363

A Prayer for Christmas Peace _Charles Kingsley_ 365

Under the Holly Bough _Charles Mackay_ 366

Christmas Music _John Addington Symonds_ 367

A Christmas Sermon _Robert Louis Stevenson_ 368

LIST OF PLATES

The Holy Night _Correggio_ _Frontispiece_

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The Holy Night _C. Müller_ _facing_ 16

The Arrival of the Shepherds _Lerolle_ " 40

The Bells _Blashfield_ " 72

The Madonna _Bellini_ " 96

The Virgin adoring the Infant Christ _Correggio_ " 120

The Madonna _Murillo_ " 152

Holy Night _Van Ulade_ " 184

The Holy Family with the Shepherds _Titian_ " 216

Madonna della Sedia _Raphael_ " 272

The Adoration of the Magi _Paolo Veronese_ " 304

The Adoration of the Magi _Memling_ " 344