THE IVORY SERIES _Each, 16mo, gilt top, 75 cents_ AMOS JUDD. By J. A. Mitchell Editor of “Life” IA. A Love Story. By Q [Arthur T. Quiller-Couch] THE SUICIDE CLUB By Robert Louis Stevenson IRRALIE’S BUSHRANGER By E. W. Hornung A MASTER SPIRIT By Harriet Prescott Spofford MADAME DELPHINE By George W. Cable ONE OF THE VISCONTI By Eva Wilder Brodhead A BOOK OF MARTYRS By Cornelia Atwood Pratt _Other Volumes to be announced_ A BOOK OF MARTYRS When first they mixed the Clay of Man and clothed His Spirit in the Robe of Perfect Beauty, For Forty Mornings did an evil Cloud Rain Sorrows over him from Head to Foot; And when the Forty Mornings passed to Night, There came one Morning-Shower--one Morning-Shower Of Joy--to Forty of the Rain of Sorrow! And though the better Fortune came at last To seal the Work, yet every Wise Man knows Such Consummation never can be here! _From the Persian of Jàmi._ A BOOK OF MARTYRS BY CORNELIA ATWOOD PRATT CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS NEW YORK, 1896 Copyright, 1896, by Charles Scribner’s Sons TROW DIRECTORY PRINTING AND BOOK BINDING COMPANY NEW YORK NOTE Of the stories in this volume, “Witherle’s Freedom” and “Serene’s Religious Experience” were first published in _The Century Magazine_; “A Consuming Fire,” “Hardesty’s Cowardice” and “The Honor of a Gentleman” in _Harper’s Weekly_; “At the End of the World” in _The Independent_. Thanks are due the publishers of these periodicals for permission to reprint the stories here. CONTENTS PAGE _Witherle’s Freedom_, _1_ _Serene’s Religious Experience; an Inland Story_, _19_ _An Instance of Chivalry_, _45_ _A Consuming Fire_, _71_ _An Unearned Reward_, _89_ _Hardesty’s Cowardice_, _111_ “_The Honor of a Gentleman_,” _131_