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c MUSIC LOVERS’ Published by THE PHONOGRAPH PUBLISHING CO., Inc. General Offices and Studio: 47 Hampstead Road, Jamaica Plain, Boston, Mass. Telephone Jamaica 5054 : Cable Address: “ Phono ” THE PHONOGRAPH MONTHLY REVIEW appears on the twenty-eighth of each month. All material is fully protected by copy- right and may be reproduced only by permission. Yearly subscription price $4.00 in the United States and $5.00 in Canada and other foreign countries, postage prepaid. Single copies 35 cents. All communications should be addressed to the Managing Editor at the Studio, 47 Hampstead Road, Jamaica Plain, Boston, Mast. AH unsolicited contributions must be accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope. All checks and money orders should be made out to THE PHONO- GRAPH PUBLISHING CO., Inc. lii'lrmiu' fulr ! By Rev. Herbert Boyce Satcher W ITH this greeting many a merry band of wassailers gathered in fifteenth-cen- tury baronial halls to celebrate the Christmas festival. In high glee they cut the huge Yule- log and dragged it to its place on the castle hearth and lighted it. As its crackle and roar and ruddy glow spread cheer through the gloomy vastness, so its blazing warmth kindled flames of love and joy in the hearts of the revellers, and they could but burst forth with their shout of “Welcome Yule!” Whatever be the derivation of the word Yule—whether from the Gothic word giul or hiul meaning “wheel,” thus referring to the sun’s wheeling or turning at the winter sols- tice; whether from the old English word yawl or yowl meaning to “yell” or “howl,” and re- ferring to the noise of revelry; whether from the greek ioulos, the name of a hymn in honor of Demeter, the goddess of the fruits of the earth; or from the Latin jubilum, a time of rejoicing; the Goths and Saxons did celebrate a festival at the winter solstice which they called Jul or Yule. For them, the “noise of revelry”—music and the dance—formed an important part of the celebration, which was continued when the Yule festival became the Christmas of the converted Northern nations. Pre-Reforma- tion Puritans attempted to suppress the rev- elry, but it burst forth anew with the advent of the mystery-plays and the emergence of the carol and ballad as an expression of the healthy hilarity of the people, during the fifteenth-century. Perhaps we may not be able to gather with the merry-makers as they fling out their shouts of joy or trip through the measures of a blithe- some roundelay before the Yule log in some baronial hall, but we can at least catch some of the spirit which animated them, if, through that modern marvel which we call the phono- graph, we listen, for instance, to the Singers, as they re-create for us some of the joyous- ness of that far-off happy time, with their “Wassail Song,” “The Holly and the Ivy,” or “We’ve Been Awhile A-Wandering.” And so we greet the feast, when the fiery chariot of the Sun wheels into his journey across the northern world, when Joy came to the world in the Person of the Christ-Child, with our cry: “Welcome Yule, thou merry man, In worship of this holy day!” See last page for Table of Contents Copyright, 1928, by the Phonograph Publishing Company, Inc.