Treasury was published in/983, Anne Tyler,

writing in The Washington Post Book World,

hailed it as "a bountiful plum pudding of a

book. ! can imagine reading it aloud to an

audience of all ages." This revised and expanded

edition is even plummier, with appropriate

contributions for the season by some of the

most glittering practitioners of the English

language.

Among the new authors in this volume

is p. D. James, whose absorbing mystery story,

"The Murder of Santa Claus," has never

been published in a book or magazine. There

is also Cleveland Amory, with "The Rescue;

from The Cat Who Came for Christmas;

M. E K. Fisher s "Home for Christmas";

Shirley Jackson s "A Visit to the Bank"; Peter

Matthiessen s "The Cloud Forest"; Noel

Mostert s "A Christmas Dinner"; and Jack

Newcombe s "A Christmas Train."

Along with these additions to A New

Christmas Treasury are best-remembered

holiday works by such literary lights as Willa

Cather, John Cheerer, Robert Frost, James

Joyce, John Keats, Ring Lardner, Herman

Melville, Eleanor Roosevelt, Henry David

Thoreau, Laura Ingalls Wilder--in all,

eighty-seven memorable stories, poems, and

essays that lovingly celebrate the season,but

that also can be read and reread at any time of

the year.