Old Christmas, Washington Irving
These are the five Christmas chapters from Irving's famous Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon (which also includes the short stories "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"). "Crayon" takes a trip to England during the Christmas season and runs into an old friend on the way home to the family country house. He spends Christmas with them and finds that his friend's father celebrates in the old medieval style. Nostalgia infused with Irving's sly humor about dad's real motive.
The Little Book of the Nativity, Dominique Foufelle
This is a cute little mini volume filled with minute print and old-fashioned postcards and missal cards that tell the story of the Nativity from the Annunciation through the the visit of the Magi, and the representations of it that we use today. Several pages talk about "santons," the special figures that the French use in their crechè scenes, portraying typical French villagers like the blind man and the Romany couple. The vintage chromolithographs are mostly French with a few German representations tossed in.
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