Excerpt from The World's Christmas Tree And then I glanced southward. I saw Mexico and Central America, and all the countries of that great continent which extends into the south. It was a sight which thrilled me, for these peo ple, speaking languages different from my own and living under govern ments diverse from one another, seemed to be moved by a common impulse and exhibited a common joy. They were all getting ready for Christmas. 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.