Excerpt from Festivals and Plays: In Schools and Elsewhere The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose. Or this old-fashioned May Day celebration may be transferred from the school to out-of-doors (to the open green of Central Park, New York, as pictured in the photographs reproduced in this volume), where the conditions proper to an antique May rejoicing permit of a richer pageant and more varied pro gramme. Furthermore, the term festival must be large enough to in clude at the Christmas rejoicing (to turn now to that) a form of celebration which binds into a Christmas offering all the most entertaining and suggestive rites and customs, songs and dances and mummings of the old Christmastide. It must allow for a pageant brave with all the quaint and bright insignia - the green ery, the streamers, and the banners of Yuletide reveh-y. It must further allow for the inclusion of the old type of Christmas pantomime, with its fairy play, its transformation scene, or inter lude of dance-drama, and its fantastic harlequinade. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.