Holiday Stories to Warm the Heart
November 1, 2001
Proving, perhaps, that too much is never enough, editors Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen serve up the latest course in their inspirational and ubiquitous food-for-the-spirit series with Chicken Soup for the Soul Christmas Treasury: Holiday Stories to Warm the Heart. It's a mixed bag O. Henry's "Gift of the Magi" follows a man's rumination on Santa Claus as a metaphor for God, filial love, or both but familiar fare nonetheless, and the treacly sweet stories about the true meaning of Christmas promise to be gobbled up by thousands as they stand in the gift-wrap line.