The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

REVIEWS A MODERN READING OF SaINT FRANCIS OF Assisi. By KATHERINE COLLINS. C. W. Daniel, ts. Not bad; might start somebody inquiring how to acquire the Cosmic Consciousness. ARCANA OF NATURE. By Hupson TUTTLE. Swan Sonnenschein and Co., 6s. net. Fecal filth about Spiritist—nouns—in simplified “speling.” Who shall cleanse the astral cesspool of these mental necrophiles ? And think of having a name like Hudson Tuttle ! LitTLE Book OF SELECTIONS FROM THE CHILDREN OF THE LIGHT. By RuFus M. Jones, M.A., Litt-D. Headley Bros., 1s. 6d. net. I dislike Brochette de Paragraphes, and I dislike second-raters. “Let the dead bury their dead!” But Dr. Jones apologises prettily enough. May I point out to him that his clients (even) demand the focussing of the attention on something or other, and that this ‘Tit-Bits’ method is the contradictory course ? THE MysTeRY OF EXISTENCE. By CHARLES WICKSTEED ARMSTRONG. Longmans, Green and Co., 2s. 6d. net. Ne pedagogus ultra flagellum—tor Mr. Armstrong is a schoolmaster. All he does is to rearrange other people’s prattle ; and anyhow, I can’t read him. He writes “Carlisle” for “Carlyle,” “ future” when he means “ later,” and believes in castrating anybody who disagrees with him. Pp. 94, 123, and 114 respectively. KANT’S PHILOSOPHY AS RECTIFIED BY SCHOPENHAUER. By M. KELLY, M.D. Swan Sonnenschein and Co., 2s. 6d. This excellent little book by Major Kelly sums up in a few pages, concisely enough, the greater portion of Kant’s philosophy ; the only difficulty is to tell where Kant ends and where Major Kelly and Schopenhauer begin. Further, i 2B 385