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Yule-Tide in Many Lands

Yule-Tide in Many Lands

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YULE-TIDE IN MANY LANDS

BY

MARY P. PRINGLE

Reference Librarian, Minnesota Public Library Commission

and

CLARA A. URANN

BOSTON

LOTHROP. LEE & SHEPARD CO.

1916

 

 

Copyright, 1916

By Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co.


"The old order changeth, yielding place to new,
And God fulfills Himself in many ways,
Lest one good custom should corrupt the world."

Alfred Tennyson.


ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thanks are due to the following publishers for permission to reprint poems: Houghton Mifflin Company for "King Olaf's Christmas" by H. W. Longfellow, "Night of Marvels" by Violante Do Ceo; Paul Elder & Company for "The Christmas Tree" by H. S. Russell, "At Christmas Time"; Edgar S. Werner & Company for "The Christmas Sheaf" by Mrs. A. M. Tomlinson; John Lane Company for "A Palm Branch from Palestine" by M. Y. Lermontov; American Ecclesiastical Review for "The Eve of Christmas" by Pope Leo XIII; E. P. Dutton & Company for "The Voice of the Christ-child" by Phillips Brooks.

Mary P. Pringle

Clara A. Urann


CONTENTS

CHAPTER     PAGE
I.   Yule-Tide of the Ancients 13
II.   Yule-Tide in England 30
III.   Yule-Tide in Germany 55
IV.   Yule-Tide in Scandinavia 75
V.   Yule-Tide in Russia 103
VI.   Yule-Tide in France 120
VII.   Yule-Tide in Italy 132
VIII.   Yule-Tide in Spain 148
IX.   Yule-Tide in America 168
  Index 199

ILLUSTRATIONS

Christmas in Naples. An Italian Presepio
(Page 135) Frontispiece
FACING PAGE
King Olaf's Christmas 26
Serenaded by the Waits 38

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