THE BIG STICK
THE DEVIL: “ Let us giggle.”
THEODORUS: “Hush, you have committed a horrible black magical act,
you have slept with”...
LEILA [a creamy girl]: “Good heavens, Sir, I faint; call a policeman.”
THEODORUS: “ Become acquainted with the Queen of the nymphs.” . . .
SISTER HELEN [nursing expert]: “A douche, smelling salts, eau de Cologne,
quinine. . ,!”
THEODORUS: “From the abode of . . . Brotherhood you are expelled [sods],
to the British Museum you must go [svuffes], and read [pause] ‘The Secret
Symbols of the Rosicrucians’!”
THE DEVIL: “Tut, tut, . . . Dear Sisters, the train has stopped, we are at
Streatham Hill—let us get out.” ALICIA DE GRUYS.
ON THE Loose. By GEORGE RAFFALOVICH. Publishing Office of THE
EQUINOX, 124 Victoria Street, S.W. Is. net.
The author of the Man-Cover is well-known to the readers of THE EQUINOX.
His charm lays principally in the independence of his thought, the delicacy of
his touch, in his spirit of pure joy, in his most holy childishness. He shows
certainly a great lack of literary experience, an accumulation of various contra-
dictory feelings which seem to fight one another for the conquest of his spirit.
The scientific training of our order will give him that Mastery over self which
alone can bring forth the full blossom of his rich imagination. There is every
reason for us to expect much of Mr. Raffalovich. Is he not a Gemini man, with
Jupiter and Saturn culminating? Somewhat Neronian, probably, as will be seen
in his work.
We recommend especially the reading of the two sketches entitled “ Demeter ”
and “A Spring Meeting,” and we look forward to any future work of the author.
There is more in his work than is met at first glance, Let him forget that he
writes for English readers and subscribers to libraries!
GEORGE RAFFALOVICH.
HISTORY OF CHEMISTRY. By SIR EDWARD THORPE, Watts and Co, Vol. ii.
As excellent as vol. i What is Sir Edward doing amongst this brainy
goody lot? 25+
HisToRY OF OLD TESTAMENT CRITICISM. By ARCHIBALD Durr, D.D.
Watts and Co. Is. net.
An interesting little volume, as complete as can be expected for 146 pages.
Duff, D.D., does not understand the Qabalah. We can assure him it is not a
“fancied philosophy wherein everything was in reality brand new,” as Zunz
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