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Albert Duerer

MADONNA ENTHRONED WITH SAINTS AND ANGELS 31
Pesellino. (_Empoli Gallery_)

JACOPONE IN ECSTASY BEFORE THE VIRGIN 40
From "Laude di Frate Jacopone da Todi" (Florence, 1490)

THE ADORATION OF THE SHEPHERDS 55
By Fouquet. (_Musee Conde, Chantilly_)

THE FLIGHT INTO EGYPT: THE REST BY THE WAY 70
Master of the Seven Sorrows of Mary. (Also attributed to Joachim
Patinir.) (_Vienna: Imperial Gallery_)

SINGING "VOM HIMMEL HOCH" FROM A CHURCH TOWER AT CHRISTMAS 71
By Ludwig Richter

THE NATIVITY 89
From Add. MS. 32454 in the British Museum. (French, 15th Century)

A NEAPOLITAN _PRESEPIO_ 108

CALABRIAN SHEPHERDS PLAYING IN ROME AT CHRISTMAS 112
After an Etching by D. Allan. From Hone's "Every-day Book"
(London, 1826)

ST. FRANCIS INSTITUTES THE _PRESEPIO_ AT GRECCIO 114
By Giotto. (_Upper Church of St. Francis, Assisi_)

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THE _BAMBINO_ OF ARA COELI 115

THE ADORATION OF THE SHEPHERDS 121
From Broadside No. 305 in the Collection of the Society of
Antiquaries at Burlington House

THE SHEPHERDS OF BETHLEHEM 140
From "Le grant Kalendrier & compost des Bergiers" (N. le Rouge,
Troyes, 1529)

THE ADORATION OF THE MAGI 154
Masaccio. (_Berlin: Kaiser Friedrich Museum_)

NEW YEAR MUMMERS IN MANCHURIA 161
An Asiatic example of animal masks

CHRISTMAS EVE IN DEVONSHIRE--THE MUMMERS COMING IN 229

THE GERMAN CHRISTMAS-TREE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 263
From an engraving by Joseph Kellner

CHRISTMAS MORNING IN LOWER AUSTRIA 281
By Ferdinand Waldmueller (b. 1793)

YORKSHIRE SWORD-ACTORS: ST. GEORGE IN COMBAT WITH ST. PETER 297
From an article by Mr. T. M. Fallow in _The Antiquary_, May, 1895

THE EPIPHANY IN FLORENCE 337

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CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

The Ori