... CHRISTMAS TALES. A very nice little volume has just appeared among the rest of the Annuals, entitled as above. It comprises four stories essentially differing in their nature, and each possessing somewhat more than the average merit of ephemeral compositions ...

... CHRISTMAS DAY. According to a good old custom, handed down from time . immemorial through our ancestors, the unfortunate inmates of the various criminal and debtor prisons under the management of the City of London, and of several other of the prisons ...

... CHRISTMAS PANTOMIMES. DRURY N E. The bitter weather notwithstanding, we last evening resolutely performed our duty in attending this theatre. Truth to say, our inclination somewhat prompted our duty; for there is inspiration in referring to,the pleasures ...

... CHRISTMAS SPORTS, At the feast of Christmas, says Stow, in the King's Court, wherever he chanced to reside, there was appointed a Lord of Misrule, or master of merry disports; the 'same merry fellow made his appearance at the house of every nobleman ...

... CHRISTMAS NOVELTIES. (From the Weekly True Sun.) DRURY-LANE. _ _ After the Siege of Rochelle and the Jewess at this house last night, a pantomime was presented, entitled Whittington and his Cat. The performances of the evening commenced at half-past six ...

... CHRISTMAS DAY. According to a good old custom, handed down from time immemorial through our ancestors, the unfortunate inmates of the various criminal and debtor prisons under the management of the City of London, and of several other of the prisons around ...

... THE CHRISTMAS CLUB. I was lately one of the chimneys which stood in the Old Square of Lincoln's lon. I was built in the year 1,600, and flatter myself that I have long stood preeminent in the qualities permitted to my rank and station. I was carried up ...

... CHRISTMAS CAROLS. (From the Morning. Chronicle.) The fact of Mummers going about on holidays to collect trifling charities is thus noticed by Athenwus ; and it is amusing to observe their resemblance to the bellinan's verses, and the chanters of the carols ...

... CHRISTMAS DAY. The Society belonging to Lincoln's Inn had anciently an officer chosen at this season, who was honoured with the title of King of Christmas day, because he presidered in the hall upon that day; and this temporary potentate had a marshal ...

... CHRISTMAS CAROLS. (From the Morning- Chronicle.) The fact of Mummers going about on holidays to collect trifling charities is thus noticed by Athenaeus ; and it is amusing to observe their resemblance to the bellman's verses, and the chanters of the carols ...

... CHRISTMAS IN THE OLDEN TIME. OLD CHRITMAS. LEGEND —A!. Queen's College, -Oxford, .is an old legend that a wild boar, which infested the neighbourhood of Oxford, was killed by a 'tabedar of this College on Christmas day, as he was going to serve at Church ...

... A CHRISTMAS CAROL. EXTRACTED PROM THE CHRISTIAN PHYSICIAN AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL MAGAZINE, FOR JAN. ISM. THE CHILD JESUS.—LuKE ii. 27. Welcome that star in Judah's sky, That voice o'er Bethlehem's palmy glen! The lamp far sages hailed on high; The tones ...