HOLIDAYS

originally ‘holy’ days,.@. days on which no work should be done; in modern England Bank H’s are the h’s recognised by the State; these are not observed in Scotland, nor is Good Friday, which is customarily kept in England. Quebec still observes some of the old feast days (the h. properly so called), but the rest of the Dominion and the Brit. Colonies have their own new systems, In U.S.A. there are no legal h’s; the Presidential proclamation of Thanksgiving Day (usually last Thursday in Nov.) makes it legal holiday in Columbia and the Territories, though it is generally observed. Other h’s generally observed are Independence Day (July 4), Labor Day (first Monday in Sept.), and these are legal in most states, which have also various other statutory h’s. wrote Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland (pub. 1578), from which Shakespeare’s Eng. hist. plays were largely drawn.