Evening star., 1933-06-18
by SARAH Q. BOWERMAN
Il Senator's Plan to Defeat the Depression.
Il Handbook on the London Conference.
Chamber Music and Some Fiction.

courtesans murderers suicides lunatics, tramps
highwaymen, parsons. actors and many un-
identified to profession or circumstances.
The Tower of London is a place especially rich
in ghosts might be expected from its un-
savory past Anne Boleyn's ghost has been
seen in the Tower chapel, which appeared bril-
iantly lighted at the time. Animal ghosts
haunt the Tower, where in life they were baited
for the amusement of spectators, for tragedy
in the lives of animals has the same result
physically as it has in the lives of humans"
St. James Palace and Park and the Green
Park Berkeley Square and Red Lion Square,
Bloomsbury, Lincolns Inn the Temple, Grey
friars, Charterhouse Newgate, Hyde Park, the
London Bridges, Blackheath. the Haymarket
Theater the Thames and st. Pauls, as well
as many other famous places in London, have
all had their ghosts The Cock Lane ghost is
especially noted as one OF the most sensational
which has ever haunted London. In 1850
certain woman named Fanny died at house
in Cock Lane, supposedly of smallpox (Which
would not have justified ghostly return), but
the return of her ghost aroused suspicion that
she had been murdered by her brother-in-
law, in whose favor she had made a will. The
various ghostly appearances and rappings
of Fanny were probably due to trickery on the
part of family who thought they had cause
for enmity toward Mr. Kent the brother-in-
law The weird tales of ghastly manifestations
which fill this volume are told by Mr.. ODon-
nell in historical narrative fashion without
effort to enhance the horror by a melodramatic
style.
VOODOOS AND OBEAHS. BY Joseph J. VIII
liams, S. j. New York: The Dial Press.
THIS scientific study of phases of West In
| dian witchcraft has just gone into its third
edition in this country and is being published
in England. In the popular mind, DR.. Williams
tells Us, Voodoo and Obeah are interchangeable
and both signify weird and superstitious prac-
ticeS among descendants of West African tribes
in the West Indies and Southern United States.
They should be, however, distinguished from
each other and other forms of black and white
magic. Voodoo it first appeared IN Haiti
essentially serpent worship, varying little
from its form in West Africa during slavery
days. Many grewsome rites were gradually
accumulated, eliminating in cannibalistic
orgies the Don Pedro rite, or dance, and the
Goat without horns,'' or human sacrifice. In
its inception religious, Voodoo has come in
its decadent form to be classed witchcraft or
sorcery- Obeah and Myalism were two antag-
onistic superstitions among the Ashanti Of the
hinterland of the Gold Coast; the first was
from the beginning formal witchcraft and the
second had religious origin. Myafsm became
white magic, having the general good as an
objective and holding its ceremonies openly;
Obeah became a blacker and blacker form of
magic, seeking the harm of individuals and
midnight. In its later religious aspect, Obeah
has become a form of devil worship DR..
Williams has spent about six years in Jamaica
has penetrated to the recesses of mountain and
bush, where secret arts are carried on, and has
been able at times to watch some of them
s,irreptitiously. His book is not based entirely
on his Investigations. for his extensive
photography includes a long list OF authorities
to be found in the Boston College Library of
Newton, Mass, and he has given many years
Of study to the subject, applying to it the
scholarship which was demonstrated in his
previous works Whence the Black Irish of
Jamatca?" "Hebrewsms Of West Africa" and
"Whisperings of the Caribbean"
THE MARTYR. BY Liam O'Fiaherty. New
York: The Macmillan Co.
IA T 4 O'Clock OF an afternoon in September,
1922, a battered motor car drove at a
furious pace down the street to the Republican
headquarters at Sallytown County Kerry" The
Civil War had arrived. The Martyr" blend
ing of mysticism and cruelties, is a story of the
Civil War and its two leaders, Crosbie and
Tracy. Crosbie. in command at Sallytown, is
an ardent revolutionary, but detests bloodshed
and violence and shrinks from sacrificing his
men. Tracy, second in command is dare
devil, gunman who enjoys the use of his
gun and scents canger for himself and his
men with keen pleasure. The clash between
the two men is immediate and bitter and is
lntens1fed by the interference OF Angela Fitz-
gibbon, "the famous Angela +" the daughter
of wealthy landowner called Col Fftzgibbon
she had created a scandal by taking part in
the rebellion of 1916, being captured in a
volunteers uniform with a smoking revolver
in her hand, her tuylic bloody from q wound
in her side" 1t is not perplexing to decide
which OF the two revolutionary leaders this
dark Angela, whom victory has never followed
will choose for her partisanship. She is an
interesting
chosen as the center of the narrative, "a legend
AIRY figure in Irish political life. An outcast
from her own class she was regarded by the
revolutionary of the hui,,