Chapter VIII: When All the World Is Kin

Christmas Night of '62 _William Gordon McCabe_ 191

Merry Christmas in the Tenements _Jacob Riis_ 192

Christmas at Sea _Robert Louis Stevenson_ 200

The First Christmas Tree in the Legation Compound, Tokyo
_Mary Crawford Fraser_ 202

Christmas in India _Rudyard Kipling_ 208

A Belgian Christmas Eve Procession _All the Year Round_ 210

Christmas at the Cape _John Runcie_ 215

The "Good Night" in Spain _Fernan Caballero_ 216

Christmas in Rome _John Addington Symonds_ 218

Christmas in Burgundy _M. Fertiault_ 222

Christmas in Germany _Amy Fay_ 225

Christmas Dinner in a Clipper's Fo'c'sle
_Herbert Elliot Hamblen_ 227

Christmas in Jail _Rolf Boldrewood_ 229

Colonel Carter's Christmas Tree _F. Hopkinson Smith_ 231

IX

CHRISTMAS STORIES

Christmas Roses _Zona Gale_ 241

The Fir Tree _Hans Christian Andersen_ 245

The Christmas Banquet _Nathaniel Hawthorne_ 257

A Christmas Eve in Exile _Alphonse Daudet_ 275

The Rehearsal of the Mummers' Play _Eden Phillpotts_ 280