... le to tile season, ninece-pies, and vishes for 1 a merry Christmas and a happy New-year. It is only in the more primitive parts of the country that the oldien customs romain. 'The Christmas carols whichl were sulig about from door to door, for a week ...

... set forth something more than. thary on the Christmas-day table, and welcome withl a 'ia-Oextra guest. An English gentloman ' of the olden 'was surrounded by Ihis tenants and neighbours Sy day- on Christmas morning. The strong beer wasibroachbd, ae blac; ...

... CHRISTMAS. ! ., -.1 - . . ., . , I m F (From the Illuminoted Magazine.) Now do the ipells of home revive in their ancient weight, within the breasts of maby and many a household band, long sundered from thb hearths round which they clustered in their ...

... I1 CHRISTMAS. CAxvoas.-Carol is said to be' deoived from Cantare, to sing, and rola, an interjection of joy. Tihe song of tbe angels wss the first carol, and anciently bishops carolled among their clergy at Christmas. An old shect of Christ- mas Carols ...

... 1849. I~ - ?? ?? ?? ?? -- ?? ?? -. I. .I ?? . . .. . . .. ?? ?? ,, ?? ! ,I I I - CHRISTMAS. ,,;0 . I il l . - I I 11 . I . : ;, . , ?? , , I The return of Christmas, with its ostentatious display of enticing eates for the epicure-its tasteful avray: ...

... CHRISTMAS. The wintry weather, piercing cold, and rimy with hoar frost; the sight of the ripe holly and ivy berries, of the ?? misletoe, and of dark evergreens at every street Oorner; together with the gay and tempting appearanac assumed in the windows ...

... events, they find little cosisolation in remembering that such or such things occurred at the season of a cold and heeorless Christmas. The public, collectively, possess no power, perhaps, to provideo a menns-'of preventing such gloomy romi- nisconecs. There ...

... |I CHRISTMAS FESTIVITIESR i Z~rNTERTAZNMfEN7TS AT THf. SCHOOLS. Christmas comes but once a year; lng 81pend It, then, In festive cher r con riedgia to friends, and pledge thsem ircil, and lyith wine and recall and leydroamel. Thi Iev3 We would, with jilt' ...

... and the members of the choir, were then plusE il, and the meeting broke up at an early hour. NEWy JEgUSALEm CauRcIc.-On Christmas-day, about eighty of the 'Sunday scholars belonging to this ehlich, attended by teachers and friends, wrere ireated with ...

... CHRISTMAS TALES. Strutt, the antiquary, in one of the chapters of his excellent romance of Queen-Hoo Hall, thus begins the Dissour's (professional story-teller) Tale :- Whilome, as old records tellen us, on a night at Chrk tuas tide, when the north ...

... tera i u logy more COpioue thatn our own. to or Not olily do we fild these exactly answering to oure Christ- be C as box, Christmas carol, &e. but others peculiar to themselves, as Weihne -lsatzet, hrisilbaum, which I shit i earnedly expound by aiti by ...

... try ?? inireiliahe parents, ?? by all ofci' on wl] driy fnitl generiat on. Fir'st Andu foriroo11st amnelgst these stands Christmas. Fii'vt in rntank a i a soicicri otbseir'as ie, lirs~t ats cnlneetid iwith e rr religion, unist as the0 greaw~st iof all ...