A book of martyrs

by Cornelia A. P. Comer

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.