Produced by Jim Adcock
New Juveniles for 1864
PUBLISHED BY JAMES MILLER, 522 BROADWAY, N. Y.
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MAGNET STORIES, For Summer Days and Winter Nights. SECOND SERIES.
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IMPULSE AND PRINCIPLE, AND OTHER STORIES. BY MISS ABBOTT.
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THE PRIVATE PURSE, And other Stories. BY MRS. S. C. HALL.
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TURNS OF FORTUNE And other Stories. BY MRS. S. C. HALL.
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Published By James Miller, 522 Broadway.
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PHILIP GREY, OR THREE MONTHS AT SEA. BY PETER PARLEY.
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Hans Andersen's Wonderful Tales. ILLUSTRATED.
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HANS ANDERSEN'S STORY BOOK. ILLUSTRATED.
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Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales. ILLUSTRATED.
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GULLIVER'S TRAVELS. New Edition. Illustrated.
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ESOP'S FABLES. New Edition. Illustrated.
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Aunt Carrie's Rhymes for Children.
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LIFE OF GEO. WASHINGTON. With Illustrations by Darley.
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[Illustration: "The Dream of Little Tuk."] THE DREAM OF LITTLE TUK.
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Hans Andersen's Library.
A CHRISTMAS GREETING: A Series of Stories, BY HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN ILLUSTRATED.
[Illustration: "Children Dancing."]
Published by James Miller, 522 Broadway.
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A CHRISTMAS GREETING
A Series of Stories,
BY HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
[Illustration: "Man Carrying Firewood."]
New York:
(Successor to C.S. Francis & Co.)
Published by James Miller,
522 Broadway.
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TO
CHARLES DICKENS, Esq.
I am again in my quiet Danish home, but my thoughts are daily in dear England, where, a few months ago, my many friends transformed for me reality into a charming story.
Whilst occupied with a greater work, there sprung forth--as the flowers spring forth in the forest--seven short stories.* I feel a desire, a longing, to transplant in England the first produce of my poetic garden, as a Christmas greeting: and I send it to you, my dear, noble, Charles Dickens, who by your works had been previously dear to me, and since our meeting have taken root for ever in my heart.
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: A Christmas Greeting by H. C. Andersen
- 2: And spouts where the water ran
- 3: The little boy comes trateratra
- 4: For the shoemakers must have everything so that they can say
- 5: Shouted the pewter soldier as loud as he could
- 6: And people stood still and peeped in
- 7: That it is the same pewter soldier
- 8: What was undermost should be topmost
- 9: He has a whole forest of burdocks
- 10: And the old clock in the corner burred
- 11: And she pressed the thorn bush to her breast
- 12: So they went into Death's great greenhouse
- 13: Wilt thou have thy child again
- 14: Said the garter I am not accustomed to it
- 15: And asses went along with a dingle dingle dong
- 16: The word mahogany can be understood
- 17: Do you not know your old shadow
- 18: This is called drinking Duus they are then
- 19: I have been in the antechamber at the court of Poesy
- 20: So the shadow said thou to its former master
- 21: Other persons have a common shadow
- 22: And the cannons went off with a bum
- 23: The whole footpath was filled with persons
- 24: The other was a piece of touchwood
- 25: The street lamps are not lighted
- 26: In which any one might set a wax candle
- 27: Kjoge a town in the bay of Kjoge To see the Kjoge hens
- 28: The popinjay used at the shooting matches at Prastoe
- 29: The town takes its name from King Hroar
- 30: Took great heed of this naughty Cupid
- 31: Which the fluttering ducks had lost
- 32: The nightingale came and sang to the roses
- 33: The young sparrows had now feathers
- 34: It was to consist in a Chirrup
- 35: The pigeons strutted round each other
- 36: Two old sparrows and one young one answered with a Chirrup
- 37: And the darning needle maintained its proud demeanor
- 38: And because it glittered the darning needle addressed it
- 39: But she grew colder and colder
- 40: Like the delicious roast goose
- 41: The little girl was called Karen
- 42: And went into the church with Karen
- 43: And the executioner struck off her feet with the red shoes
- 44: She sate in the pew with the clergyman's family
- 45: And how Gerda went to look for her brother
- 46: He had gone to see Otto Speckter
- 47: But Andersen has here re told it in so humorous a manner
- 48: New York Published by James Miller