Table of Contents:
  • Imaginative license
  • Imaginative overindulgence
  • Storybooks in a workaday world
  • The Chord of the Christmas season
  • Public entertainment
  • Murder and Self-effacement
  • Unrestrainted invention
  • Appendix A. Contributors to the Christmas numbers of household words and all the year round, 1850-67. Appendix B. Frame.