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45-Middle
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Titanium
18-To obliterate
19-Every
22-Pronoun
23-A French abbot
25-Roe (Scot)
27-Bustle
28-The American
Crocodile
30-Cunning
31-Sooner than
38-Mexican dollar
34-Unit
38-Eagle
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33-Into
47-Crave
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Greek alphabet 37-Short satirical
article
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DEVIL'S HISTORY
EARLY ASSOCIATIONS RECALLED
MODERN BELIEF
"The History of the Devil", by R. Lowe Thompson; Kegan Paul. Trench and Co., London, 7/6.]
"And how then was the Devil drest? Oh! he was in his Sunday's best: His jacket was red and his breeches
were blue, And there was a hole where the tail
came through."
S. T. Coleridge. Probably if a questionnaire was sent round asking, "Which current belief do you think has changed most in the last thirty years'? the answer would be The belief in a personal, devil. And if there Was & further question as to the direction of this change the reply most probably would be, in the direction of decay or complete abandonment.'
This is partly, of course, a real
change, but partly we fear only
superficial.
Our grandparents, hard headed thoughtful people who prided themselves on accepting nothing without a solid warrant for it,
Among an independent people LIGHT ON RUSSIA he was as a god. If the people became a subject people he be came the personification of evil und left his impress as the super- natural worker of iniquity.
Thus the witch or wizard of the pagan pecples of Western Europe was apotheosized into the with a tail, the real Devil, who horned and cloven-footed monster
was not a fable but an actual in- habitant of the world in our grandfather's day. Even now, if by any hurdy-gurdy of circum
the stance the conditions of earlier centuries recur-if
the mind is thrown back into the channels of the old belief, the cave, the forest and the elements.
the associations seem to call up. the allied beliefs; the horned. monster comes back and walks the chambers of the brain. He rein-
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habits the wild caverns again,
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new
ligious stock-in-trade of the less
forms part of the
educated in the community.
The strength of the belief in witches and sorcerers, a horn- keeping of the
and the witches Sabbath over Europe in earlier centuries shows «From his brimstone bad at break of human nature these beliefs, were. how deeply rooted in
believed in the Devil as
ed monster who came,
day
To visit his snug little farm of the
earth And see how his stock went on."
Joan of Arc
WHAT WE GLEAN FROM A NOVEL
["The Embezzlers," by Valentine Kataev; Ernest Benn, 7/6. net.]
Many of the literary journals lation of are listing Mr. L. Zarines' trans-
this amusing Russian novel' as one of the season's best
sellers. The chief reason for the book's great sale in Britain and America is because it lifts the veil which for years has hidden the doings of the ordinary citizen in Russia.
This small volume is trebly
welcome; firstly because after the
blackness that succeeded the Rus- sían upheaval an illuminating novel has at last been produced under Soviet auspices; secondly because of the light it throws on the new Bolshevik officialdom where peculation seama to be as rife as it ever was in the days i of degenerate Teardom; and, thirdly, because it gives us a glimpse of Moscow from a native who has lived through the ten years' horror and is now actual- ly living amidst such scenes and surroundings as he describes.
The book is decidedly humorous but ita humour is more broad than subtle. It will not appeal to read- ers of Aldous Huxley. It des- cribes the sordid adventures of two scapegraces, an accountant and a junior clerk, who decamp In this connection Mr.
with twelve Thompson refers to Miss Murray's from Moscow to Leningrad.
thousand roubles We interesting theory about Joan of
aee glimpses of the tawdry night Arc. Joan of Arc on this theory life in Peter's capital where vodka was a witch who formed the rally-is obtained as easily as whisky is ing point of a great and power- Devil with
ed to the church party.. ful organisation that was oppos
As an incarnation of the gud she would naturally inspire enthusiasm and
We, their grandchildren, would
|probably pooh-pooh such a belief;
we would class the
confidence; and as such she was
in New York, and also silhouettes of the miserable village life fri Russia.
Relaxing Censorship
Santa Claus and the sea serpent. But in certain circumstances and under certain associations even amongst ourselves we find the ancestral beliefs sprouting up
As Stephen Graham, says in the and reappearing
foredoomed to sacrifice.
introduction: "There has not been As they held
These two away in earlier centuries.
facts may explain much humour in the Revolution; War, pestilence, famine, and those na-
why, as the fatal day approached, it is surely a sign of change, of tural catastrophes such as earth-
the French never lifted a finger to apring after a long winter, when quakes, bring back with them the ransom or rescue her. This fact the people begin to laugh again." associated
would also beliefs
it was That such a book can be publish- which
explain how held sway when auch
that it was the tree of the fairyed in Russia, and allowed to be catastrophes loomed large in man's
ladies" at thought
which Joan received translated into various languages, and life.
is almost a proof that the censor- ship in Russia, so ruthless and severe during the past decade, is at last being lifted, and .causes as to hope that very soon we shall be able to see more of that enigmatic country through the discerning eyes of her men of letters.
Reasoning Faculty Wrecked Everybody noticed how the shock of the Great War-the slaughter, the uncertainty, the be- reavement, the sudden curtail-
her mission.
"The judges made a great point that her retention of male attire was a sign of the Dianic cult. She first heard the voices at the initiation age of thirteen. In brief the conduct of her associates during her military carcer, as well as the evidence at her trial, bear out the fact that the
she belonged to the ancient religion, not to the Christian. Nine years after
ment of life--wrecked the reason- ing faculty of many so that there WAS a sudden increase in the de- mand for the sorcerer
and the medium: The abode of modern Witch of Endor, now no longer in a cave but housed in a fashionable London Square, was the resort of a long queue of an- xious enquirers. Even eminent scientists who had used their rea- soning faculties
on many other questions with A praiseworthy and almost sceptical reserve were: found under the anomaly of the sudden strain to let the canons of evidence drift to the winds and to reason like-Mr. Belloc or Mr. Chesterton.
And just as these recrudes- cences of ancestral beliefs happen in the case of spooks and spirita they also occur in the case of that horned monster, the Devil,
Magic Incantations Mr. Thompson traces
the his- tory of the Devil back to those palaeolithic days when the magi- cian clothed in the skin of the goat or chamois performed magic 'incantations for the weal' or 'woe of some community, and regulat ed the supply of buffalo or charm- ed the rain.
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