WYLIE, IDA ALENA ROSS. Holy fire, and other stories. *$1.75 (2c) Lane
20–8791
Michael Gregorovitch, of the title story, is a Russian priest. He was a man of peace, a non-resistant, he loved and prayed for his enemies and he kept the lamp burning before the altar of the little church—the light of God that had not gone out for two hundred years. The night the village was sacked the women implored him to give the signal from the belfry, to sound the tocsin, for the peasants to break forth from their hiding and kill the invaders. But the priest standing before the holy fire remained firm—although his house was burned, his wife and little grandson killed, he would not countenance killing. When the ruffians entered the church, he did not resent their insults—they put out the holy fire that had burned for two hundred years and the priest escaped to the belfry and gave the signal. The other stories are: Thirst; The bridge across; “Tinker—tailor—”; Colonel Tibbit comes home; “‘Melia, no good”; A gift for St Nicholas; John Prettyman’s fourth dimension; An Episcopal scherzo.
“Most of them are marked by tense emotion, but frequently there are gleams of humor.”
+ N Y Times 25:30 Je 27 ’20 300w
“Miss Wylie’s work is frankly colored with sentiment. She does not ignore the sensibility of the race which was not ashamed to sob over Colonel Newcome and even Little Nell.” H. W. Boynton
+ Review 3:253 S 22 ’20 160w
WYLLARDE, DOLF. Temperament: a romance of hero-worship. *$2 (½c) Lane
(Eng ed 20–12952)