ings's "Encyclopaedia" and in #"The Guardian,"# Dec.
29, 1911; #F. C. Conybeare#, Preface to #"The Key of Truth, a Manual
of the Paulician Church of Armenia"# (Oxford, 1898), clii. f.;
Usener, 18 f.

15. Usener, 27 f.

16. _Ibid._ 31; #J. E. Harrison, "Prolegomena to the Study of Greek
Religion"# (Cambridge, 1903), 550.

17. Harrison, "Prolegomena," 402 f., 524 f., 550. |364|

18. #Lake#, and #G. Rietschel, "Weihnachten in Kirche, Kunst and
Volksleben"# (Bielefeld and Leipsic, 1902), 10.

19. Conybeare, lxxviii.

20. #A. Lupi, "Dissertazioni, lettere ed altre operette"# (Faenza, 1785),
i. 219 f., mentioned in article "Nativity" in #T. K. Cheyne's
"Encyclopaedia Biblica"# (London, 1902), iii. 3346.

21. Chambers, "M. S.," i. 234.

22. _Ibid._ i. 235; #F. Cumont, "The Monuments of Mithra"# (Eng. Trans.,
London, 1903), 190.

23. #G. Negri, "Julian the Apostate"# (Eng. Trans., London, 1905),
i. 240 f.

24. Chambers, "M. S.," i. 235.

25. Duchesne, "Christian Worship," 265.

26. Tille, "Y. & C.," 146.

PART I.--THE CHRISTIAN FEAST

CHAPTER II.--CHRISTMAS POETRY (I)

1. See especially for Latin, German, and English hymnody #J. Julian, "A
Dictionary of Hymnology"# (New Edition, London, 1907), and the
#Historical Edition of "Hymns Ancient and Modern"# (London, 1909).

2. #H. C. Beeching, "A Book of Christmas Verse"# (London, 1895), 3.

3. Beeching, 8.

4. #A. Gastoue, "Noel"# (Paris, 1907), 38.

5. #R. W. Church, "St. Anselm"# (London, 1870), 6.

6. _Ibid._ 3 f.

7. #W. R. W. Stephens, "The English Church from the Norman Conquest to
the Accession of Edward I."# (London, 1901), 309.

8. #W. Sandys, "Christmastide: its History, Festivities, and Carols"#
(London, n.d.), 216; #E. Rickert, "Ancient English Carols.
MCCCC-MDCC"# (London, 1910), 133.

9. For the Franciscan influence on poetry and art see: #Vernon Lee,
"Renaissance Fancies and Studies"# (London, 1895); #H. Thode, "Franz
von Assisi und die Anfaenge der Kunst der Renaissance in Italien"#
(Berlin, 1885); #A. Macdonell, "Sons of Francis"# (London, 1902); #J.
A. Symonds, "The Renaissance in Italy. Italian Literature,"# Part I.
(New Edition, London, 1898).

10. #Thomas of Celano, "Lives of St. Francis"# (Eng. Trans. by A. G.
Ferrers Howell, London, 1908), 84.

11. #P. Robinson, "Writings of St. Francis"# (London, 1906), 175.

12. #"Le poesie spiritua