Transcriber’s Note: Italics are enclosed in _underscores_. Additional
notes will be found near the end of this ebook.




[Illustration:

  (CHRISTMAS
  DRAWINGS
  FOR
  THE HUMAN RACE

  BY
  Th: Nast)
]




[Illustration: (With compliments of the season.

Th : Nast.

Dec - 25th 1892)]




[Illustration: “ANOTHER STOCKING TO FILL.”]




                             Thomas Nast’s

                           CHRISTMAS DRAWINGS

                                  FOR

                             THE HUMAN RACE


                         [Illustration: (1890)]


            NEW YORK      HARPER & BROTHERS      PRINTERS &
            PUBLISHERS   ·   FRANKLIN SQUARE      M DCCC XC




[Illustration:

  (Copyright, 1889,
  by
  Harper & Brothers)
]




[Illustration: FIRST-PRIZE CHRISTMAS-CARD--BEING FARTHEST FROM THE
SUBJECT.

  (JUNE, JULY, AUGUST,
  MOSQUITOES & FLIES.
  SUMMER.
  100 IN THE SHADE.

  MERRY
  4TH OF
  JULY)
]




PUBLISHER’S NOTE.


This volume of Mr. Nast’s “Christmas Drawings” is the first collection
of his works which has been published. The pictures are well called
“Drawings for the Human Race,” because they appeal to the sympathy
of no particular religious denomination or political party, but to
the universal delight in the happiest of holidays, consecrated by
the loftiest associations and endeared by the tenderest domestic
traditions. Christmas is the holiday of all; but it is especially the
Children’s day. The grotesque and airy fancies of childhood which cling
about Santa Claus, as the good genius of Christmas, are reproduced upon
these pages, in delightfully imaginative reality by the sympathetic
touch of the artist, so that the book is an overflowing feast of true
Christmas cheer.

Mr. Nast’s hand, when dealing with current topics of the time, tips
the flashing shafts of wit with morality; with relentless humor puts
cunning pretence in the pillory; and exposes public wrong to the fatal
merriment which laughs it away. But the artist’s hand is never happier
than when, with the lambent light of the same humor, it irradiates the
play of domestic affection, and makes the home circle gay. It is the
bluff, honest Santa Claus of “The Night before Christmas;” the Santa
Claus of the reindeer and the sleigh, alighting on the snowy roof, and
descending the chimney with his wondrous pack of treasures; the Santa
Claus of unsuspecting childhood, and the Mother Goose of undoubting
infancy, to whom these pages introduce us. There is no child who cannot
understand them, no parent who cannot enjoy them. Mr. Nast is fairly
without a rival in this kind. His Santa Claus is old Father Christmas
himself, and his welcome will be as general and as hearty as that which
salutes the crammed and enchanted stocking on Christmas morning.

[Illustration]




[Illustration: STOCKING OF CONTENTS.]


STOCKING OF CONTENTS.


   1.  “ANOTHER STOCKING TO FILL.”

   2.  FIRST-PRIZE CHRISTMAS-CARD--BEING FARTHEST FROM THE SUBJECT.

   3.  TAILPIECE.

   4.  STOCKING OF CONTENTS.

   5.  TAILPIECE.

   6.  MERRY CHRISTMAS.

   7.  SANTA CLAUS’S ROUTE.

   8.  DARNING THE STOCKING.

   9.  CHRISTMAS FURLOUGH.

  10.  “WHO SAID ANYTHING ABOUT CHRISTMAS DINNER?”

  11.  CUTTING MISTLETOE IN THE SOUTH.

  12.  CHRISTMAS GREENS.

  13.  CHRISTMAS POST.

  14.  SANTA CLAUS’S MAIL.

  15.  “HELLO! SANTA CLAUS!”

  16.  “HELLO! LITTLE ONE!”

  17.  “’TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS.”

  18.  SANTA CLAUS AND HIS WORKS.

  19.  MESSAGES AND LISTS FOR SANTA CLAUS.

  20.  RECIPROCATION.

  21.  CHRISTMAS FANCIES.

  22.  “HE PRAYED, ‘AND LET SANTA CLAUS FILL MY STOCKINGS JUST AS FULL
           AS HE CAN. AMEN.’”

  23.  CHRISTMAS EVE.

  24.  “SANTA CLAUS CAN’T SAY THAT I’VE FORGOTTEN ANYTHING.”

  25.  THE WATCH ON CHRISTMAS EVE.

  26.  CHRISTMAS EVE.--SANTA CLAUS WAITING FOR THE CHILDREN TO GET TO
           SLEEP.

  27.  SEEING SANTA CLAUS.

  28.  A VERY BAD BOY.

  29.  “’TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS, AND ALL THROUGH THE HOUSE NOT
           A CREATURE WAS STIRRING, _not even a Mouse_.”

  30.  CHRISTMAS STATION.

  31.  THE SAME OLD CHRISTMAS STORY OVER AGAIN.

  32.  “HERE WE ARE AGAIN!”

  33.  PEACE AND GOOD WILL.

  34.  THE COMING OF SANTA CLAUS.

  35.  CHRISTMAS EVE.--OLD FACES FOR YOUNG HEARTS.

  36.  MERRY CHRISTMAS.

  37.  A CHRISTMAS SKETCH.

  38.  A CHRISTMAS BOX.

  39.  CAUGHT!

  40.  THE SHRINE OF ST. NICHOLAS.

  41.  “LITTLE BO-PEEP FELL FAST ASLEEP AND DREAMPT--”

  42.  SEE! THE CHRISTMAS PLUM PUDDING.

  43.  “COME NOW, SANTA CLAUS, I’S READY.”

  44.  CHRISTKINDCHEN.

  45.  LITTLE JACK HORNER.

  46.  CHRISTMAS FLIRTATION.

  47.  THE DOMESTIC EXPRESS.

  48.  OLD MOTHER GOOSE MELODIES.

  49.  NURSERY TILES.

  50.  THE CRUSTY OLD BACHELOR WHO IS BOUND TO HAVE SOMETHING IN HIS
           STOCKING.

  51.  A CHRISTMAS STORY.

  52.  MERRY CHRISTMAS.

  53.  MERRY OLD SANTA CLAUS.

  54.  SANTA CLAUS’S REBUKE.

  55.  THE CHRIST CHILD.

  56.  THE DEAR LITTLE BOY THAT THOUGHT CHRISTMAS CAME OFTENER.

  57.  MOVING DAY.

  58.  “FOR HE’S A JOLLY GOOD FELLOW, SO SAY WE ALL OF US.”

  59.  SANTA CLAUS’S TOOL-BOX.

  60.  CHRISTMAS IN CAMP.

  61.  CHRISTMAS SUPPLEMENT TO “HARPER’S WEEKLY.”

  62.  A MERRY CHRISTMAS.

  63.  “MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL, AND TO ALL A GOOD-NIGHT.”

  64.  “WISHING YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR.”

  65.  ’TWAS THE NIGHT AFTER CHRISTMAS.

[Illustration]




[Illustration:

  (SANTA CLAUS.

  MERRY
  CHRISTMAS)
]

[Illustration: SANTA CLAUS’S ROUTE.]

[Illustration: DARNING THE STOCKINGS.]

[Illustration: CHRISTMAS FURLOUGH

  (Eve

  Morning.)
]

[Illustration: “WHO SAID ANYTHING ABOUT CHRISTMAS DINNER?”]

[Illustration: CUTTING MISTLETOE IN THE SOUTH.]

[Illustration: CHRISTMAS GREENS.

    “So now is come our joyful’st feast--
    Let every man be jolly;
    Each room with ivy leaves is cheer’d,
    And every post with holly.”
]

[Illustration: CHRISTMAS POST.]

[Illustration: SANTA CLAUS’S MAIL.]

[Illustration: “HELLO! SANTA CLAUS!”]

[Illustration: “HELLO! LITTLE ONE!”]

[Illustration: “’TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS.”

A chance to test Santa Claus’s generosity.]

[Illustration: SANTA CLAUS AND HIS WORKS.

  (ON THE LOOK OUT
  FOR GOOD CHILDREN

  HERE HE COMES!

  ACCOUNT BOOK,
  RECORD OF BEHAVIOUR.

  SANTA CLAUS
  AND
  HIS WORKS.

  SANTA CLAUS STABLE

  SANTA-CLAUSVILLE N.P.

  FARM YARD.

  GOOD PUSSY.

  HIS WATCH DOG.

  WORK-SHOP.

  HOLIDAY WEEK.

  DOLLIES’ TEA PARTY.

  WHICH DOLLY WILL YOU HAVE?

  THE CHRISTMAS TREE.

  CHRISTMAS-EVE.

  DOLLIES’ KITCHEN.

  DOLLIES’ PARLOR

  MAKING DOLLIES’ CLOTHES.)
]

[Illustration: MESSAGES AND LISTS FOR SANTA CLAUS.]

[Illustration:

RECIPROCATION.

“Won’t Santa Claus be surprised to find that he has not been forgotten?”

(CANDY FOR SANTA CLAUS)]

[Illustration: CHRISTMAS FANCIES.--“Don’t you wish you wore
stockings?”]

[Illustration: “He prayed, ‘And let Santa Claus fill my stockings just
as full as he can. Amen.’”]

[Illustration: CHRISTMAS EVE]

[Illustration: “SANTA CLAUS CAN’T SAY THAT I’VE FORGOTTEN ANYTHING.”]

[Illustration: THE WATCH ON CHRISTMAS EVE.]

[Illustration: CHRISTMAS EVE.--Santa Claus waiting for the children to
get to sleep.]

[Illustration: SEEING SANTA CLAUS.]

[Illustration: A VERY BAD BOY.]

[Illustration:

    “’Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house
     Not a creature was stirring, _not even a mouse_.”
]

[Illustration: CHRISTMAS STATION.

(Santa Claus STOP Here Please.)]

[Illustration: THE SAME OLD CHRISTMAS STORY OVER AGAIN.]

[Illustration: “HERE WE ARE AGAIN!”]

[Illustration: PEACE AND GOODWILL

  (RINGING IN THE AIR.

  DING!      DONG!!)
]

[Illustration: THE COMING OF SANTA CLAUS.]

[Illustration: CHRISTMAS EVE.--OLD FACES FOR YOUNG HEARTS.]

[Illustration: MERRY CHRISTMAS.]

[Illustration: A CHRISTMAS SKETCH.--“Five o’clock in the morning.”]

[Illustration: A CHRISTMAS BOX.

(THE TOPSIDE UP WITH CARE)]

[Illustration: CAUGHT!]

[Illustration: THE SHRINE OF ST. NICHOLAS.--“We are all good children.”

  (CHRISTMAS
  BOX
  1882
  ST. NICHOLAS.
  NORTH POLE)
]

[Illustration: “Little Bo-Peep fell fast asleep, and dreampt--”]

[Illustration: SEE! THE CHRISTMAS PLUM PUDDING.]

[Illustration: “COME NOW, SANTA CLAUS, I’S READY.”]

[Illustration: CHRISTKINDCHEN.]

[Illustration: LITTLE JACK HORNER.]

[Illustration: CHRISTMAS FLIRTATION.]

[Illustration: THE DOMESTIC EXPRESS.

_Old Bachelor_: “How glad I am that I don’t have to cart round endless
bundles for greedy brats during the holidays.”]

[Illustration: OLD MOTHER GOOSE MELODIES.]

[Illustration: NURSERY TILES.--“There he is.”]

[Illustration: THE CRUSTY OLD BACHELOR WHO IS BOUND TO HAVE SOMETHING
IN HIS STOCKING.]

[Illustration: A CHRISTMAS STORY.--“I am Cinderella, and you are the
wicked sisters.”]

[Illustration: MERRY CHRISTMAS.]

[Illustration: MERRY OLD SANTA CLAUS.]

[Illustration: SANTA CLAUS’S REBUKE.

“I’ll never do it again.”

  (DEAR SANTA CLAUS

  TOMMY HAS BEEN SUCH
  A NAUGHTY BOY THAT
  WE THINK YOU HAD
  BETTER NOT BRING
  HIM ANY·THING
  THIS CHRISTMAS

          PAPA AND MAMA.)
]

[Illustration: THE CHRIST CHILD.

  (PEACE ON EARTH
  AND GOOD WILL
  TOWARD MEN)
]

[Illustration: THE DEAR LITTLE BOY THAT THOUGHT CHRISTMAS CAME OFTENER.

  (CHRISTMAS
  COMES BUT
  ONCE
  A YEAR.

  THEREFORE, LET’S BE
  MERRY.)
]

[Illustration: MOVING DAY.]

[Illustration: “For he’s a jolly good fellow, so say we all of us.”

  (MERRY CHRISTMAS
  WORDS & MUSIC BY SANTA CLAUS.

  CHRISTMAS COMES BUT ONCE A YEAR
  AND THEREFORE
  LET’S BE MERRY

  CHRISTMAS BOX)
]

[Illustration: SANTA CLAUS’S TOOL-BOX.]

[Illustration: CHRISTMAS IN CAMP.

(U S

WELCOME SANTA CLAUS)]

[Illustration: CHRISTMAS SUPPLEMENT TO HARPER’S WEEKLY

  (BLUE BEARD

  RED RIDING HOOD

  TOM THUMB

  SANTA

  CLAUS

  PUSS IN BOOTS.

  PEACE ON EARTH AND GOOD WILL TOWARD MEN!

  CINDERELLA.)
]

[Illustration: A MERRY CHRISTMAS.]

[Illustration: “Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good-night.”]

[Illustration: “Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.”]

[Illustration: ’TWAS THE NIGHT AFTER CHRISTMAS.]




Transcriber’s Notes


Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a
predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they
were not changed.

Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation
marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left
unbalanced.

This book does not have page numbers.

Transcriber added sequence numbers to the entries in the Table of
Contents.

When illustrations did not have captions, Transcriber added them by
using part of the corresponding entry in the Table of Contents, or text
within the illustrations themselves.

Transcriber added words and phrases that were within some of the
illustrations to their captions, and enclosed them in parentheses to
indicate they were not parts of the original captions.

The first illustration is the cover.

The original book was autographed. A copy of that is included in this
eBook as the second illustration.