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• Good Stories for Great Holidays, ed. by Frances Jenkins Olcott (HTML at Virginia)
• Good Stories for Great Holidays, ed. by Frances Jenkins Olcott (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)

• The Child's Book on the Sabbath (New York: Leavitt, Lord and Co., 1835), by Horace Hooker (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Birthday Party: A Story for Little Folks (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1864), by Oliver Optic (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Ally's Birth-Day (London: Groombridge and Sons, ca. 1845) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Surprise Party: or On not Going not Ongoing (Berkeley: Chased Press, 1977), by Johanna Drucker (page images with commentary at artistsbooksonline.org)

• Pagan Holidays, or God's Holy Days: Which?, by Herbert W. Armstrong (multiple formats with commentary at thetrumpet.com)
• The Hidden Side of Christian Festivals (Los Angeles et al.: St. Alban Press, 1920), by C. W. Leadbeater
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Pilgrimage of Etheria (1919 SPCK edition of all extant portions of this work), by Egeria, trans. by M. L. McClure and Charles Lett Feltoe (HTML at CCEL)
• The Pilgrimage of S. Silvia of Aquitania to the Holy Places (Circ. 385 A.D.) (in English only (Latin text omitted); London: Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society, 1896), by Egeria, ed. by J. H. Bernard, contrib. by Charles William Wilson (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• A Testimony for Truth Against All Hireling Priests and Deceivers, by Judith Boulbie (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Matsuri: Festival and Rite in Japanese Life (Tokyo: Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics, c1988), trans. by Norman Havens (HTML in Japan)

• Pagan Holidays, or God's Holy Days: Which?, by Herbert W. Armstrong (multiple formats with commentary at thetrumpet.com)
• Beacons on the Talmud's Sea: Analyses of Passages From The Talmud And Issues In Halachah, Adapted From The Works of The Lubavitcher Rebbe, by Menachem Mendel Schneerson (HTML at chabad.org)

• The Feasts of Camelot, with the Tales That Were Told There (London: Bell and Daldy, 1863), by Mrs. T. K. Hervey (multiple formats at Google)

• Greek Saints and Their Festivals (Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1910), by Mary Agnes Hamilton
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Annus Ecclesiasticus Graeco-Slavicus, Editus Anno Millenario Sanctorum Cyrilli et Methodii, Slavice Geatis Apostolorum (in Latin; Brussels: Typ. Henrici Goemaere, 1863), by I. Martynov
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• True Christmas Spirit (c1955), by Edward J. Sutfin (HTML at EWTN)
• The Twelve Days of Christmas (c1955), by Elsa Chaney (HTML at EWTN)
• Our Christmas Symbols (Raleigh, NC: Graphic Press, c1953), by Aylene E. Cooke and Cameron Cooke (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Story of Christmas: Sun, Saviour and Santa Claus (Atlanta: Oglethorpe University Press, 1941), by Thornwell Jacobs (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Christmas Entertainments (originally published in 1740 as "Round About Our Coal Fire"; reprinted London: Field and Tuer, et al., ca. 1883) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan (London: T. F. Unwin, 1912), by Clement A. Miles (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Feast of St. Friend: A Christmas Book (New York: George H. Doran Co., 1911), by Arnold Bennett (Gutenberg text)
• Friendship and Happiness (Hodder and Stoughton edition; usually titled "The Feast of St. Friend"), by Arnold Bennett (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• The Lights of Beacon Hill: A Christmas Message (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1922), by Abbie Farwell Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Mystical Interpretation of Christmas, by Max Heindel (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Myths and Legends of Christmastide (San Francisco: Stanley-Taylor Co., 1901), by Bertha F. Herrick (Gutenberg text)
• Yule-Tide in Many Lands, by Mary Poague Pringle and Clara A. Urann, illust. by L. J. Bridgman (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Little Book for Christmas (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1917), by Cyrus Townsend Brady, illust. by Will Crawford (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• St. Nicholas: His Legend and His Rôle in the Christmas Celebration and Other Popular Customs (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1917), by George Harley McKnight (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• St. Paul and Protestantism, With Other Essays (popular edition; London: Smith, Elder, 1892), by Matthew Arnold (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Our Children's Year of Grace (fifth edition, 1955), by Therese Mueller (HTML at EWTN)
• Annus Ecclesiasticus Graeco-Slavicus, Editus Anno Millenario Sanctorum Cyrilli et Methodii, Slavice Geatis Apostolorum (in Latin; Brussels: Typ. Henrici Goemaere, 1863), by I. Martynov
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Hidden Side of Christian Festivals (Los Angeles et al.: St. Alban Press, 1920), by C. W. Leadbeater
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Greatest Drama Ever Staged (published with "The Triumph of Easter"; c1938), by Dorothy L. Sayers (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• The Bible View of Slavery (1861 sermon by Raphall, with contemporary rebuttals by Einhorn and Heilprin), by Morris J. Raphall, contrib. by David Einhorn and Michael Heilprin (illustrated HTML at jewish-history.com)
• Bible View of Slavery: A Discourse, Delivered at the Jewish Synagogue "Bnai Jeshurum", New York, on the Day of the National Fast, Jan. 4, 1861 (New York: Rudd and Carleton, 1861), by Morris J. Raphall
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• God our Refuge and Strength in This War: A Discourse Before the Congregations of the First and Second Presbyterian Churches, on the Day of Humiliation, Fasting and Prayer, Appointed by President Davis, Friday, Nov. 15, 1861 (Richmond: W. Hargrave White, 1861), by T. V. Moore (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Le Feste di San Giovanni in Firenze: Breve Notizia (in Italian; Florence: A. Ciardi, 1887), by Aurelio Gotti
  • page images in Italy
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Keep a True Lent, by Charles Fillmore (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• Sunday: The Sabbath, by Harold Camping (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• The Christian Sabbath: Is it of Divine Origin?, by John E. Remsburg (Gutenberg text)
• The Sabbath in Puritan New England (seventh edition), by Alice Morse Earle (Gutenberg text)

• Little Known Facts About Thanksgiving and Lincoln's Proclamation (Fort Wayne, IN: Lincoln National Life Insurance Co., ca. 1939), by Louis Austin Warren (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Proclamations for Thanksgiving, Issued by the Continental Congress, Pres't Washington, by the National and State Governments on the Peace of 1815, and by the Governors of New York Since the Introduction of the Custom; With Those of the Governors of the Several States in 1858 (Albany, NY: Munsell and Rowland, 1858), ed. by Franklin B. Hough (page images at Ohio Memory)

• Holiday Facts and Fancies: Full Yet Simple Explanations of the American Holidays (Boston et al.: Educational Pub. Co., c1910), by Clara Janetta Fort Denton
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Dog and Duck (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1924), by Arthur Machen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain (new edition, in 3 volumes; London: H. G. Bohn, 1849), by John Brand and Henry Ellis, contrib. by J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps (page images at HathiTrust)

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