The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

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 335