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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), 6th December 1889, Edition 1 of 1, Page 1540

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      . . _ . . _ . _ — T —N — ^ Is Christmas ...

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      sweetness I ^^ Q of a them sober mincje -minde either -pie , d the childishness to bells of a Yule or senility for theni deli | , ght they are no at jang affect anap led -dragon to and desp out , a ise of game tun even e at , and the forfeits the confused time , is to - honoured waits are only a relic of barbarism . ' I ha ^ e , sympathy with these * misan thropists .

      Because their virtue ^ is , of the sorriest kind shall there be no more pakes and ale' ? Surely

      life is not so intrinsically joyous that we can afford to dispense with its innocent pleasures .

      True wisdom lies rather in breakingup as much as we can

      , the , killing monotony of the I * year vear with with all all seasonable 8 ea . sona . Vilf * -naa - - II

      2 times . ' — ' : pas I - For myself when Christmas

      approaches I capitulate beforehand and i surrender every •/ - to the

      thing benign jnfluences which await me ., P give myself to speakand let

      the season up , so have its will , upon me . n I make no reserves . I

      welcome every custom , every li association ghtful , ^ he . They games are and all the

      dewassail carols of cup childhood , the strains , the of decoration music heard of iiouse at midni and ght hall , the with morning scarlet wal . and k to green church , the , the mantling service with its Divine imiii / hopeand the kindlremembrance j ui of the vuv ; \ j \ j \ j *

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      the Christmas snow lies . At deep such upon a time the the ground heig , ht and of the enj ^^ oyment stars sparkle is reached ^^ in ^ the ^^ when sky , , with I have "doors got closed my ideal ^ and

      curtains drawn closely round , we pile great logs on the fire and subside into quietness . The games and the feasting are

      over—The girls all kiss'd Beneath the sacred buah ^ -and pasit-awayy

      ! and me Christmas the bowl * without half-way its ebbed . books Then would the final be p shorn leasure of beg half ins its —the attraction pleasure . of Its books associations . For proper

      y are mind ears all that of embalmed use 1 , qould delig nob there ht separat is ; duplicated and e , them as I . turn if The I wished over two the . things Christmas well-known have calls so pages long mad run favourit e together sacred e authors by in long my

      my books awaken recollections of Christmas . It would be easy and up my not unprofitable to , make a Christmas Library ¦ h ; B and B t soni mrnmi e 1 of the books dearest ¦ to Englishmen Vf lk 4 V would be

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      and which gentlemen tells how to , on London Merlin on ' s suggestion Christmas , the Eve Archbishop how y of of Canterbury them ' made , summoned them clean all the of passag lord their s

      lives that their prayers might be the more acceptable , many to God , ' and liow in the greatest church I of the city the young Prince Arthur , by drawing forth out of the stone the mystic sword , as I

      no other Knight could do , proved himself V to be the born King of England . Shakspea > e I comes next with one of the sweetest at passages he ever wrote : — v I So ^ h gainst that '

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  • Citation
    • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 6, 1889, page 1540, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_06121889/page/6/