Books with title Christmas Eve and Christmas Day

Excerpt from Christmas Eve and Christmas Day: Ten Christmas Stories This is a collection of ten Christmas Stories, some of which have been published before. I have added a little essay, written on the occasion of the first Christmas celebrated by the King of Italy in Rome. The first story has never before been published. It is but fair to say that I have not drawn on imagination for Laura's night duty, alone upon her island. This is simply the account of what a brave New-England woman did, under like circumstances, because it was the duty next her hand. If any reader observes a resemblance between her position and that of a boy in another story in this volume, I must disarm censure, by saying, that she had never heard of him when she was called to this duty, and that I had never heard of her when I wrote his story. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Here are ten Christmas stories [and an essay] by Edward E. Hale, some of which have been published before and some are brand new. That the volume is worth buying, worth reading, worth praising, the name on the title page gives sufficient guaranty. There is a frontspiece by Darley. Source: New Outlook, Vol. VI, No. 27, Dec. 25, 1872. Two of the stories are specifically for children. Certainly, they'd enjoy others, as well.

Originally printed in 1872, this is a collection of ten Christmas Stories. The first story They Saw A Great Light was written for the book, the rest had appeared elsewhere. There are two bookplates on the front endpapers : one small one "S.M. DuPont" and the second is a larger one with a coat of arms " Ex Libris,Alexis and Elizabeth duPont,Rencourt". There is additionally a gift note on the verso of the free front endpaper " Marguerite duP. Ortiz from her Grandmother duPont March 20th 1918". The boards are worn in spots, spine faded with words still legible and the head of the spine in tatters. The rear board has several whitish spots. x , 294 + 8 pages of advertisements. embossed cloth , gilt lettering. large 12mo.

HERE he comes! here he comes!" "He" was the "post-rider," an institution now almost of the past. He rode by the house and threw off a copy of the "Boston Gazette." Now the "Boston Gazette," of this particular issue, gave the results of the drawing of the great Massachusetts State Lottery of the Eastern Lands in the Waldo Patent. Mr. Cutts, the elder, took the "Gazette," and opened it with a smile that pretended to be careless; but even he showed the eager anxiety which they all felt, as he tore off the wrapper and unfolded the fatal sheet. "Letter from London," "Letter from Philadelphia," "Child with two heads,"—thus he ran down the columns of the little page,—uneasily. "Here it is! here it is!—Drawing of the great State Lottery. 'In the presence of the Honourable Treasurer of the Commonwealth, and of their Honours the Commissioners of the Honourable Council,—was drawn yesterday, at the State House, the first distribution of numbers'——here are the numbers,—'First combination, 375–1. Second, 421–7. Third, 591–6. Fourth, 594–1. Fifth,'"—and here Mr. Cutts started off his feet,—"'Fifth, 219–7.' Sybil, my darling! it is so! 219–7! See, dear child! 219–7! 219–7! O my God! to think it should come so!"

A compilation of 10 Christmas Tales, a few of which have been printed before. With an inclusion of a short essay, drafted during the time of the first Christmas revelled by the King of Italy in Rome. The story includes They Saw a Great Light, Christmas Waits in Boston, Alice's Christmas-Tree, Daily Bread, Stand and Wait, The Two Princes, The Story of Oello, Love is the Whole, Christmas and Rome, The Survivor's Story, and The Same Christmas in Old England and New. Edward Everett Hale was a writer, historian and Unitarian minister. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to parents Nathan Hale, business owner and editor of the Boston Daily Advertiser, and Sarah Preston Everett. Edward Hale was a nephew of Edward Everett, the orator and politician, and grand-nephew of Nathan Hale, the Revolutionary War hero convicted by the British for espionage. Edward Everett Hale was also related with Richard Everett and Helen Keller. Edward was a child genius who revealed out of the ordinary talent in literature. He attended classes at Boston Latin School and at Harvard College. He made his literary collection, was awarded with two Bowdoin prizes and was elected the Class Poet. He ranked second place in his class and then enrolled at Harvard Divinity School. He was authorized to give sermons as a Unitarian minister by the Boston Association of Ministers. Then, he became pastor of the Church of the Unity in Worcester, Massachusetts. He was first celebrated as a writer when he wrote the short story, My Double and How He Undid Me, to the Atlantic Monthly. He thereafter wrote many other stories in the same magazine. His most popular story was, The Man Without a Country, printed in the Atlantic Monthly and proposed to uphold support for the Union cause in the North.