In Residence

90 AU THEATRE DU GRAND GUIGNOL [Unhappily our contributor returned alive from watch- ing the start of the Paris-Madrid race. He had provided himself with a copy of Mr Henley’s “ Imperishable Poem,”’ and the metre, in which there is but one rule, viz. “anything scans,” seems to have run away with him. Would the motor had done as the metre! He will be printed as prose.—Ed.| Filled with anticipations of the most blood-curdling order, we sought the breezy heights of Montmartre. The Sacré Coeur, looking more than ever like a compromise between an Indian mosque and a Buzsard cake, towered above us in the frosty twilight. It is, however, invisible from the theatre itself, so that we were able to give our undivided attention to the system of Doctor Goudron and Professor Plume, and it is our interpretation alone which has any real value. It will be necessary first to call the attention of the reader to our own system, without some account of which he may find himself embarrassed, even bewildered. Mr George Macdonald in his masterpiece of Hag- gardized Rabbinical tradition, “Lilith” (Off, Lilith !),} has broken the wind of the poor phrase to this effect: “To grow and not to grow; to grow larger and to grow smaller at one and the same time; yea, even to grow by the simple process of not growing.” In these unpretending and innocent.words lies hid (for the eye of the wise to discover) the germ of the most stupendous and far-reaching system of philosophy that has 1 The Qabalah.