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(By Arthur Machen.]

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Mr. A. G. Bradley says in his "Exmoor Memories" that the whole business of the Doones was the püre invention of Blackmore. There never wors such people, and there was no tradition of them in the neighbourhood. An old Ex- moor sector told Mr. Bradley that he had never heard of such folk, and more. the rector, had never heard of Blackmore.

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try sloth manufacturer published a "Süthock. Cathedral" repentad my very admirable, book on the Evil friend. Then the solution, dawned Eye. He showed that In the on the puzzled driver, on, you eighties, clay images, made after a mean South Wark" he said, making. horrible and most ancient recipe, | "wark" rhyme with "stark." "And, were still being pierced with nails, suppose, the place has not been But I am very certain that, the Fand pins in Somersetshiro cottag, s. called thus for thousand years.

Somersetshire rectors had never on heard that tale as they went their pastoral visitations.

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There are latent mysteries in all things, evan in those which seem/ most dovold of mystery. Here is an example of this great truth. The great railway companies, you must know, print a document called

And while we are on this topic, I may say that I am looking forward with some curiosity to "The" His "Daily Stock Return," and the tory of Witchcraft and Demono- following are amongst the items of logy," by Mr. Montague Summers, the stock. Minks, inites, macaws, Well, in a sense. I should have which is to appear in the course serpents, crocodiles, totams, bet been glad is this talo had bean of this autumn. There are all sorts, bootles, pythons, scorpion. true. "Lorna Doone" is a noble of puzzles in this matter which are hydras, bloaters, tadpoles, butter.

| filles, cricketp, melons, and waiting for

For an answer, book."though somewhat over-lyrical,

Was there ever such a

Istera. No: I shall make no at- example: and the author's credit would have

A few buen all the higher if it could being, in historic times, as the tempt at explanation. shown that he had not only invent thing to be said for Payne Knight's plain the torma "Perfect Aahlar Witches' Sabbath? Is there any weeks ago, I tried my best to ex ed the story of "Lorna Doone," but contention, that it was a relic off and “Children of the Widow," and also the tradition on which the story, the pagan, priapic cultus pereisting was told in some quartars that I

is based. But of course, Mr. Bradley Is all wrong, and his an: olent rector did not know what he was talking about. A correspon dent of "The Times" puts in evt.

dence that cannot be avoided or denied..

He cites a Devonshire Directory published in 1857, twelve years before the appearance of "Lorna Doone," in which, under the heading "Brendon," it is stated that "the district abounds with legenda about robbers, called The Dooney of Bagworthy." So, in the decisive, if disgusting. Scottish idiom: "Let that, flea stick to the wa" The existence of the Doone legend before the publication of "Lorna Doone" is definitely and Bnally established.

There is, I believe, an interesting hypothesis to the effect that theae Bagworthy Brigands were, in

mon-

in secret in Christian' times? Or did not make myself clear. I was was the Witches' Sabbath the rollca good deal hurt. of an older world than the Rothang

the Western equivalent of the Becret societies of the African nepes, in which the Medicine Man--the "Black Man" of the witch sterics-hideously arrayed in a demoniac rulee, presides over the When and where was assembly? the last Sabbath held in England? answers these If Mr. Summers questions, I shall be grateful to him.

The debate as to the pronunies-

tion of Cirencester is interesting. It seems pretty certain that the name should be pronounced "Sises- ter" or "Sisetet"; or, in the speech. of the country folk," "Zlseter." The Analogics of Gloucester, Bicester, Worcester support the reality, a Celtle remnant, driven view and it is probable that the into the wildest wilds by the era pronunciation, "Oy-ren-cas- Saxon invasion, and holding out Inter" Is due to the enthusiasm of their valley, at first, perhaps as people who had learned a hundred patriots, and then and ever after as years ago or more, how to spell. pure thieves, till they were smoked and were resolved to utilise their job as a nuisance towards the end new learning.. We speak now of of the seventeenth century. The the Peninsula, of Gower, pronounc- But theory is attractive, and may being the word as it is spelt. true. likely enough. But I am fo- "Leveson Gower" is rightfy utter terested by the minor point: the ed as "Lewson Gore," and "King" nescience of Mr: Bradley's rector. Uriens of Gore" that is Gower- 1 have long been aware that there appears in the "Morte d'Arthur.” is a whole world of country life And so. the hare. "Barclay" no of which neither the rector, the doubt gives the proper pronuncia- squire, the lawyer, nor the doctor tion of "Berkeley," and I suspect have the faintest notion. I remem- that the accent was originally; on ber when I was a boy, a country- the last syllable, man instructing me as to the neces sity of gathering, medicinal herbe under certain pinnets one of these planets was called Juniper! And am very sure that my father, the rector, would have laughed at the notion that his parishioners were believers in astrology... And some thirty-five years ago a West-Coun-

In the

An American friend of mine arrived on these shores fortified with the knowledge that Southwark is pronounced "Suthock." course of his stay in London, he told a taxi-driver to take him to 'Suthock Cathedral." The man stared at him in deep perplexity.

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