By The Christmas Fire

Contents • I. The Bayonet-Poker • II. On Being a Doctrinaire • III. Christmas and the Literature of Disillusion • IV. The Ignominy of Being Grown-Up • V. Christmas and the Spirit of Democracy "Christmas and the Spirit of Democracy" appeared originally in Everybody's Magazine, the four other essays in the Atlantic Monthly. Acknowledgments are due to the editors of these periodicals for permission to reprint them here.