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Title: Yule-Tide in Many Lands

Author: Mary P. Pringle and Clara A. Urann

Illustrator: L. J. Bridgman

Release Date: June 12, 2006 [EBook #18570]

Language: English

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[Illustration: CHRISTMAS IN NAPLES. An Italian _PRESIPIO._]

YULE-TIDE IN MANY LANDS

BY

MARY P. PRINGLE

Reference Librarian, Minnesota Public Library Commission

and

CLARA A. URANN

Illustrated

by

L.J. Bridgman

and from photographs

BOSTON

LOTHROP. LEE & SHEPARD CO.

1916

Copyright, 1916

BY LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO.

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"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._

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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. PRI