THE ADORATION OF THE MAGI (Detail)Frontispiece

Gentile da Fabriano. (Florence:Accademia)

MADONNA AND CHILD13

Albert DÜrer

MADONNA ENTHRONED WITH SAINTS AND ANGELS31

Pesellino. (Empoli Gallery)

JACOPONE IN ECSTASY BEFORE THE VIRGIN40

From “Laude di Frate Jacopone da Todi” (Florence, 1490)

THE ADORATION OF THE SHEPHERDS55

By Fouquet. (MusÉe CondÉ, Chantilly)

THE FLIGHT INTO EGYPT: THE REST BY THE WAY70

Master of the Seven Sorrows of Mary. (Also attributed to Joachim Patinir.) (Vienna:ImperialGallery)

SINGING “VOM HIMMEL HOCH” FROM A CHURCH TOWER AT CHRISTMAS71

By Ludwig Richter

THE NATIVITY89

From Add. MS. 32454 in the British Museum. (French,15thCentury)

A NEAPOLITAN PRESEPIO108

CALABRIAN SHEPHERDS PLAYING IN ROME AT CHRISTMAS112

After an Etching by D. Allan. From Hone's “Every-day Book” (London,1826)

ST. FRANCIS INSTITUTES THE PRESEPIO AT GRECCIO114

By Giotto. (Upper Church of St. Francis, Assisi)14

THE BAMBINO OF ARA COELI115

THE ADORATION OF THE SHEPHERDS121

From Broadside No. 305 in the Collection of the Society of Antiquaries at Burlington House

THE SHEPHERDS OF BETHLEHEM140

From “Le grant Kalendrier & compost des Bergiers” (N.leRouge, Troyes,1529)

THE ADORATION OF THE MAGI154

Masaccio. (Berlin: Kaiser Friedrich Museum)

NEW YEAR MUMMERS IN MANCHURIA161

An Asiatic example of animal masks

CHRISTMAS EVE IN DEVONSHIRE—THE MUMMERS COMINGIN229

THE GERMAN CHRISTMAS-TREE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY263

From an engraving by Joseph Kellner

CHRISTMAS MORNING IN LOWER AUSTRIA281

By Ferdinand WaldmÜller (b. 1793)

YORKSHIRE SWORD-ACTORS: ST. GEORGE IN COMBAT WITH ST. PETER297

From an article by Mr. T. M. Fallow in The Antiquary, May,1895

THE EPIPHANY IN FLORENCE337