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A MIRROR FOR WITCHES - Esther Forbes-Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). Child of witches burned in Brittany, Bilby's Doll is haunted in Salem by the stench of their burning flesh, remembers their Black Masses, and says the Lord's Prayer backward. Thereupon the impish child is accused of withering...
"No less sad is it that even among the faithful, bathed with baptism in the blood of the Immaculate Lamb and enriched by grace, there are many of all classes who, ignorant of things divine or poisoned by false doctrines, live evil lives far from the house of their divine...
The essence of Hardy's philosophy is the apparent helplessness of mankind. It appears in the poetry, as in the prose, with a sense of human impotency. This view of life is not useful; it may even be dangerous--for it leaves one "with a sense of groping in thick...
Even a savage knows that the world is a place of magic; he wonders what huge invisible hand draws the sun down into darkness, with what inaudible, dark charm a man is taken, suddenly and forever, out of the world, into an unreal place. This last trick puzzles even people...
Friday afternoon they headed into a gale. Ice began to cover their vessel; wind heaved it roughly about. Darkness was coming on; their benzine was almost gone. So they dipped in a cautious glide toward the earth's surface, not knowing whether below the fog's bed was...