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This article discusses satanism. The reason why you can respect the satanism, the albatross and the yearning for damnation, is because they all serve to re-state the problem to pose the question. They remind you over and over again, like a hundred variations on one theme, that man has to interpret the life of his soul into the language of the modern city. The greatness of the modern movement lies perhaps in the fact that after the answer there comes the question. Today there is a reaction from the great individualist visionaries and a trend toward the new orthodoxies partly because, considered as answers, their systems seem inadequate.

This article presents information on the book "La Part du Diable," by Denis de Rougemont. This book, reportedly, is related to social-political psychology and developments. It is supposed to be a social satire concerning class, race, nation, sect, worldly success. It focuses on the need of eradicating Satanism and germinating doctrine of personal responsibility. According to the author of this article, this book is a valuable source of moral philosophy, specially concerning to servings of diplomats. The book argues that the evil is within us and should be eradicated by non other than ourselves.

The article presents information on the book "A Change of Skin," by Carlos Fuentes. To medieval man, as to fundamentalist preachers, hell was real but remote, waiting in an afterlife that made the sinner fear to die. Mid-century man, freed of myth, brings hell to life. It is a hell of barbed wire and extermination ovens, napalm and corruption. Satan, in Fuentes' demonology, is power, wherever it is wielded, in Berlin, Washington, Moscow, or in the beds of sexual combat. Disenchantment is the food of hell's inhabitants, and romantic ideology the black mass.

The article focuses on various activities showing occultism in the U.S. It says that a group of college-educated people in Oakland, California gather in a house, remove their clothes, and whirl through the double spiral of a witches' dance when the moon is full. A 30-year-old receptionist sticks steel pins into a voodoo doll in an effort to harass a rival at the office into resigning in New Jersey. It adds that 75-100 people meet at The Temple of the Pagan Way for witchcraft and magic purposes.

The article focuses on the views of novelist John Updike on the existence of the devil which is considered by many as the opponent of God. Updike was the author of the anthology "Soundings in Satanism," and a Lutheran who became a Congregationalist. According to Updike, the devil grew from the exigencies and paradoxes of the human condition and that pain, plague, and destruction which were everywhere were a manifestation of evildoing. He believed that the devil enriched the rich man with ruin and considered the devil as a metaphysical possibility and a necessity.

The article focuses on increasing fascination for Jesus Christ among the young people in U.S. which has been described as the Jesus Revolution or movement. Generation X that has been constantly accused of tripping out or copping out with sex, violence and drugs, is now embracing the most persistent symbol of purity, selflessness and brotherly love. It discusses three groups namely, the Jesus People, the Straight People, and the Catholic Pentecostals who are contributing in the movement.

This article focuses on political developments. Germany is truly in the dark. Her statesmen are in the dark as concerns not only feeling in the U.S., but the general execration throughout the civilized world which her murderous course of action has provoked. All this is lost upon the rulers in whose hands German destinies are now placed. Of the three chief proposals for increasing facilities of transportation between North and South America, the Pan-American Conference ignored one and definitely split upon the two others. Samuel Hale Pearson, of Buenos Ayres, suggested that the United Fruit Co. and other corporations doing a prosperous business with Central America be induced to enlarge their capital and extend their sailings below the Isthmus. This was thought impracticable. The failure of the discussion emphasizes the fact that private initiative alone can solve the problem.

The article presents information related to the political and social conditions around the world. The present Republican bolt is of a piece with the long revolt of conscientious U.S. Democrats against the domination and perversion of their party by U.S. politician William Jennings Bryan. There is something attractive in the plan for a Universal Races Congress to be held in London, England next July. Its purpose is "to discuss in the light of modern knowledge and the modern conscience the general relations existing between the peoples of the West and those of the East.

The article presents a list of forthcoming publication from various publication houses. Elliot Stock will publish a volume entitled "Thirty-three Years' Adventures in Bookland." An endowment of One thousand dollars annually for three years has been made to the Glasgow University for special lectureships in Scottish history and literature. Owing to the death of Vernon Harcourt and other unforeseen circumstances, no publication for the present year has yet been issued by the Selden Society. The work is only delayed, and the Council hopes that two volumes will be completed at an early date and distributed to subscribers for 1909.

Lists books on art, biography, criticism and belles lettres, current affairs, drama, economics, fiction, history, miscellaneous, philosophy, poetry, politics and sociology, psychology, science, travel and description, and religion. "The Life of Christ"; "Toward an Understanding of Jesus"; "Studies in Human Nature"; "Aspects of Child Life"; "The Glands Regulating Personality"; "Animal Life in Field and Garden"; "More Hunting Wasps"; "The Evolution of Modern Medicine".

This article presents list of books on various topics. The books have been classified into broad categories. Theses categories include art, archaeology, music; biography and memoirs; drama, essays and criticism; fiction; history and government; international affairs; labor industry and trade; philosophy, psychology and religion. Some of theses books are "The Death of Society," by Romer Wilson; "The Sahara," by Pierre Loti; "History of Belgium," by Emile Cammaerts. "Peace and Bread," by Jane Addams and "The Anglo-American Future," by A.G. Gardiner.

Focuses on the life and work of poet William Bulter Yeats in Dublin, Ireland. Contribution of Yeats to the transplantation of Symbolism to the country; Interests in Irish mythology and folk-lore; Personal background.

The article discusses several books and publishers. A.S. Barnes & Co. have in preparation Annals of Switzerland, by Julia M. Colton; and The History of the Waldenses, by Mme. Sophia Bompiani. New Amsterdam Book Co. will shortly bring out an unpublished work by the late Captain Sir Richard Burton, on Human Sacrifice Among the Sephardim, or Eastern Jews, with a portrait of the author. Copeland & Day issue immediately The Husband of Poverty. A Drama on the Life of Francis of Assisi, by Henry Neville Maugham. The two volumes of Occasional Papers of the late Dean Church, which his daughter has collected and Macmillan Co. has publish, consist almost entirely of reviews of books contributed to the Guardian, the Saturday Review, and the London Times.

This article critically appraises the novel "Satan in Goray," by Isaac Bashevis Singer and translated by Jacob Sloan. This novel shows the Jews of a small Polish town abandoning themselves, in a transport of mass delusion, to the false messiah. It is a remarkable book, brilliant, enigmatic, and it deserves the attention of anyone interested in modern literature. Like most Yiddish fiction, "Satan in Goray" is focused on the community, its main theme, as its main "character," being the collective destiny of the Jews in exile. The norm of communal life is so deeply ingrained in the traditional Jewish imagination that any deviation will constitute a significant action for the Yiddish reader.

The article focuses on the book "The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essay," by Albert Camus and translated by Justin O'Brien. Camus wrote the long essay, which takes up most of this volume during the Resistance, facing death daily, in the Nazi-violated streets of Paris. The theme is that human life is absurd, because man by nature must reason yet reason cannot explain him and because man must strive for conscious ness while consciousness confronts him only with ignominy and anguish. Its premise has two parts: one, every coherent value ascribed to human life by religion, reason, culture, is not proven and two, human life is absurd.

The article presents information related to publication of various books. The excellent two-volume edition of the works of Charles and Mary Lamb, edited for the Oxford Press by Thomas Hutehinson, has now been issued within a single pair of covers, printed on thin paper. A commission connected with the Municipal Archives of Bordeaux is the patron of the new monumental edition of "Los Essais de Michel de Montaigne." The editor is F. Strowski of the university faculty, famous for his great work on Blaize Pascal.

Presents letters to the editor on various issues. Effect of the disintegration of the U.S. Democratic party on the country's politics; Response of a reader of the periodical "The Nation," on the theory of pure Browningesque invention; Concerns over the governance of the Hawaiian Islands, Island.

In 1925 Andre Gide, French writer, at the age of fifty-five, set out to realize a lifelong ambition to explore the region of the French Congo. Accompanied by a young disciple and an equipage of more than a hundred bearers, he began his journey, as he tells us in his journal, with the fullest expectation of "voluptuous delight, forgetfulness," enjoyment of blue skies and virgin forests. But almost on landing he met with certain things that produced on him a quite different effect. In the Ubangi country he saw "fifteen men and two women attached by the neck to a single rope, scarcely able to walk, escorted by two guards armed with five-thonged whips." He learned very soon that the colonial administration rules the blacks with an iron hand and that the French business concessions rule the administration. The sole function of the, administration appears to be to keep a hundred and twenty thousand blacks in virtual slavery by means of terror, bloodshed, and coercion. The inhabitants of the villages are "mobilized," as they were in the war, and the lives of some seventeen thousand of them are calmly sacrificed to build a railway.