# A Christmas greeting

Author: Corelli, Marie, 1855-1924

Genre: Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69600

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=A+Christmas+greeting+Corelli&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

IT is an old, very old, timeworn greeting, this of the friendly “Merry Christmas to you!” and there are some folks among us in these days who profess to hate the very sound of it. It came into use when England was known as “Merrie England,” an appellation which seems more than singular to us who have to endure the inane dullness and melancholy stupidity of “society” as it exists in this present gloriously-progressive Motor-Era. Looking round on the tired, worn, nervous, querulous faces in the crowds that fill the streets and shops at Christmas-time,--hearing the endless complaints, the new diseases, the troubles, real and fancied, of each person who can manage to detain a friend for five...

## Chapters

- [Part 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-christmas-greeting-69600/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-christmas-greeting-69600/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-christmas-greeting-69600/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-christmas-greeting-69600/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-christmas-greeting-69600/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-christmas-greeting-69600/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-christmas-greeting-69600/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-christmas-greeting-69600/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-christmas-greeting-69600/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-christmas-greeting-69600/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-christmas-greeting-69600/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Part 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-christmas-greeting-69600/chapters/12/index.md)