A Christmas Romance of a Country Church One of the prettiest romances that has ever come from this author's pen is made to bloom on Christmas Eve...

A Christmas Story for my Children and Grandchildren Short excerpt: "The tormented woman answered amid her loud sobs: 'The tearful eyes of the little one reminded me of...

A Christmas Legend of Long Ago Short excerpt: and gloom, because the man who is oppressed by it feels dimly that it is an unnatural and an unreasonable...

A Christmas Story Short excerpt: any suggestion which the spirit of coming Christmas might be kind enough to offer; and if he could do nothing else, he could...

Short excerpt: unlock every heart. It brought the peasant and the peer together, and blended all ranks in one warm generous flow of joy and kindness. The...

Short Excerpt: Yet there were some, friends of the child and of the child's mother, who welcomed its birth with great rejoicing. It may be that when...

Short excerpt: believe that it _has_ done me good, and _will_ do me good; and I say, God bless it! _From "A Christmas Carol." Charles Dickens._ [Illustration] Hark, the glad sound!...

Short Excerpt: "Sir," said the misanthropist, bluntly, in reply to some observation by Gervayse Hastings, "pray do not address me again. We have no right to talk...

Short excerpt: THE SKULL AND CROSS-BONES. If Marion Stanlock, "High Peak" in the trait and a torch bearer, had read one of two letters, signed with a "skull...