STRICTLY speaking, St.Nicholas has no genuine connection with Christmas time. His own feait, which rivalled. Christmas in the revelry with which it was celebrated, and is still, in some countries, one of the most important festivals of the year, is much earlier in the month, and it is only recently that Saint Nicholas has become the Santa Claus of English murseries, and the whole cerom onial of giving presents been attached to Christmas itself. How the change came Mr. Branch Johnson , an author well versed in folklore and popular hagiology, will explain in this evening's talk.