The magazine of American history with notes and queries . ndHonorable Artillery Company. Sermonby Rev. James W. Thompson, of Salem,Mass. Pp. 28. Boston. 1882. Prangs chromos—Though in 1659 the highand mighty General Court of Massachusetts de-clared that whosoever shall be found observingany such day as Christmas or the like must suffera penalty of five shillings as a fine to the County,and though, later, Chief Justice Sewall solemnlywagged his head as he viewed the infractions of thegood old law, both General Court and learnedJudge would have condoned the offence if theyhad had any Prang at Bo
The magazine of American history with notes and queries . ndHonorable Artillery Company. Sermonby Rev. James W. Thompson, of Salem,Mass. Pp. 28. Boston. 1882. Prangs chromos—Though in 1659 the highand mighty General Court of Massachusetts de-clared that whosoever shall be found observingany such day as Christmas or the like must suffera penalty of five shillings as a fine to the County,and though, later, Chief Justice Sewall solemnlywagged his head as he viewed the infractions of thegood old law, both General Court and learnedJudge would have condoned the offence if theyhad had any Prang at Boston, as now, to per-suade them with his Christmas cards, which thisseason are more beautiful than ever; being notonly very superior as works of art, but morethoroughly penetrated by the Christmas the law may have been left by theancient worthies, it has been repealed by Prang,whose exquisite gems of chromo-lithography arenow going out from Boston to carry joy into hun-dreds of thousands of hearts, not only in our ownbut in foreign
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