By the Christmas Fire, by Samuel McChord

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Title: By the Christmas Fire

Author: Samuel McChord Crothers

Release Date: March 31, 2007 [eBook #20953]

Language: English

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BY THE CHRISTMAS FIRE

SAMUEL McCHORD CROTHERS

[Illustration]

Boston and New York Houghton Mifflin Company MCMXII

To O. L. F.

A CHEERFUL FIRE-WORSHIPER

Contents

I. THE BAYONET-POKER 1

II. ON BEING A DOCTRINAIRE 43

III. CHRISTMAS AND THE LITERATURE OF DISILLUSION 97

IV. THE IGNOMINY OF BEING GROWN-UP 131

V. CHRISTMAS AND THE SPIRIT OF DEMOCRACY 191

"Christmas and the Spirit of Democracy" appea

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