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The compilers wish to thank Mrs. Margaret Deland for permission to use

"The Christmas Silence;" Mrs. Etta Austin McDonald for her adaptation of

Coppée's "Sabot of Little Wolff" from "The Child Life Fifth Reader;"

Josephine Preston Peabody for "The Song of a Shepherd-Boy at Bethlehem;"

Mrs. William Sharp for "The Children of Wind and the Clan of Peace," by

Fiona Macleod; Nora Archibald Smith and the editors of the Outlook for "The Haughty Aspen;" and the editors of Good Housekeeping Magazine, Little, Brown & Company and Mrs. Velma Swanston Howard for her translation of "The Legend of the Christmas Rose," by Selma Lagerlöf, taken from Good Housekeeping Magazine, copyright, 1907. Copyright, 1910, by Little, Brown & Company.

Thanks are also due to the following publishers for permission to reprint poems and stories on which they hold copyright: The Century Company for four selections from St. Nicholas, "The Little Gray Lamb" by A.B. Sullivan, "A Christmas Legend" by Florence Scannell, "Félix" by Evaleen Stein, "The Child Jesus in the Garden;" The Churchman Company for "The Blooming of the White Thorn" by Edith M. Thomas; Doubleday, Page & Company for "Neighbors of the Christ Night" by Nora Archibald Smith; E.P. Dutton & Company for "The Sin of the Prince Bishop" by William Canton; Ginn & Company for "Christmas Carol" from "Open Sesame;" Mr. William Heinemann for "The Flight into Egypt" by Selma Lagerlöf; Houghton Mifflin Company for "The Child Born at Bethlehem" by H.E. Scudder, "The Christmas Song of Caedmon" by H.E.G. Pardee, "The Little Mud-Sparrows" by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.

"St. Christopher of the Gael" and "The Cross of the Dumb" are included

through the courtesy of Messrs. Duffield & Company. From "Poems and

Dramas" by Fiona Macleod, copyright, 1901, 1903, 1907, by Thomas B.

Mosher; 1910 by Duffield & Company.

The selection "Christmas at Greccio" from "God's Troubadour" by Sophie

Jewett is included by special arrangement with T.Y. Crowell Company. "The

Little Friend" by Abbie Farwell Brown, "Christmas Hymn" by R.W. Gilder,

"The Three Kings" by H.W. Longfellow, and "The Star Bearer" by E.C.

Stedman are included by special arrangement with Houghton Mifflin Company;

and "The Three Kings of Cologne" by Eugene Field, and "Earl Sigurd's

Christmas Eve" by H.H. Boyesen, by special arrangement with Charles

Scribner's Sons.

The story of St. Christopher is taken chiefly from the "Golden Legend," but a few suggestions for its adaptation were obtained from a version by Olive Logan.