the reader's emotions, as well as his gratis videos morals. It is inclined to be
rather descriptive. The turkey, the pumpkin, the corn-field, gratis videos figure
throughout; and the leafless woods are blue and cold against the gratis videos evening
sky behind the low hip-roofed, old-fashioned homestead. The parlance is
usually the Yankee dialect and its Western modifications.
The gratis videos Thanksgiving story is mostly confined in scene to the country; it
does not seem possible to do much with it in town; and it is a serious
question whether with gratis videos its geographical and gratis videos topical limitations it can
hold its own against the Christmas story; and gratis videos whether it would not be
well for authors to consider a combination with its elder rival.
The two feasts are so
near together in point of time that they could be
easily covered by the sentiment of even a brief narrative. Under gratis videos the
agglutinated style of 'A Thanksgiving-Christmas Story,' fiction
appropriate to both could be produced, and both could be gratis videos employed
naturally and probably in the transaction of its affairs and the
development of its characters. The plot for such a story could easily be
made to include a total-abstinence gratis videos pledge and family reunion at
Thanksgiving, and an apparition and spiritual gratis videos regeneration over gratis videos a gratis videos bowl of
punch at Christmas.
XXVI.
It would be interesting to know gratis videos the far gratis videos beginnings gratis videos of holiday literature,
and I commend the quest to the scientific spirit which now specializes
research
in every branch of history. In the mean time, without being too
confident of the facts, I venture to suggest that it came in with the
romantic movement about the beginning of this century, when mountains
ceased to be gratis videos horrid and became picturesque; when ruins of all sorts, but
particularly abbeys and gratis videos castles, became habitable to the gratis videos most delicate
constitutions; when the despised Gothick of Addison dropped its "k," and
arose the chivalrous and religious Gothic of Scott; when ghosts were
redeemed from the contempt gratis videos into which they had fallen, and resumed their
place in polite society; in fact, the politer the society; the welcomer
the ghosts, gratis videos and whatever else was out gratis videos of the common. In that day the
Annual flourished, and this artificial flower was probably the first
literary blossom on the Christmas Tree which has since borne so much
tinsel foliage and gratis videos painted gratis videos fruit. But the Annual was extremely Oriental;
it was much preoccupied with, Haidees and Gulnares and Zuleikas, with
Hindas and Nourmahals, owing to the