![]() ![]() Oh, Yerko, you dear man."Īnd although Yerko's version is technically a bit off, he shows that he has managed nonetheless to extract something of value from the traditional story. ![]() We miss it sadly, in the world we have made. "If only there were more Mirth in the message He has left to us. "Sancta simplicitas," said Darcourt, raising his eyes to mine. Unexpectedly impressed and touched to the heart by this, he comes home and sets up a creche of his own, explaining to visitors that the Wise Men brought to the "Bebby Jesus" gifts of "gold, frank innocence and mirth." In Robertson Davies' novel The Rebel Angels, Yerko, the Romani uncle of Maria, goes to New York and sees a Nativity play which features, among other things, the Adoration of the Magi. Review copy kindly provided by author and GR friend, Martin Gibbs, whose works on Voltaire I have read with delight. ![]()
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