University College, London, address sing the students at the open the new session on "Oceupations for University. Gr: said: have been a little distressed year with the answers I hat fed from freshman as to wh During April, in many parts of the country, his Satanic Majesty is to be brought up for trial, condemned and executed, in effigy, in the best Guy Fawkes tradition. "In brief, the gentleman is to be consigned to the ies, which, for many persons, might seem to be his own element.
The celebration of the centenary will be conducted on a scale unparalleled in the history of the Salvation "Army. There will b demonstrations at the Crystal Palace, the Royal Albert Hall, in the streets, in churches, theatres fand halls throughout the countr; ich spectacles as the devil's trial will be left largely to the discreet of the Jvcal Salvation Army authorities. ay take place at ring April in the various parts of the country.
Attack on Bunyan John Bunyan is the latest poet to be attacked, Mr. Alfred Noyes, the pact, having laid violent hands on him' in an endeavour to tear him from the pedestal he for 200 years, casion of the centenary of the post's Dirth, written a lengthy article in current "Bookman" calling him Caliban-Bunyan." The critic hased on the Pro-ress," which, after careful reading, Mr. Noyes slys "has both amused and appalled me. T approached it with every desire to recapture old feeling about it, or whit I supposed, through continual sugeestior to be' my old feeling.... and T was gradually forced to the conclusion that Bunyan deserved all that he got on earth." Mr, Noyes, before summing up his opinion of "Caliban-Bunyan," seeks to give reasons for his' conelurio an examination of the "Progress and some of the characters therein, He concludes "Pilgrim's Progress' dis plays not a single glean of original thought or insight into the spiritual world.
When one looks at poor Caliban Bunyan himself there are symptoms a reversion to type which all students of primitive religions will recognise. Other signs are all too familiar to asylum doctors. He wanted to pray to broomsticks, to Satan. He wished to, he a toad because toads have no souls, and he thought he was going to burst asunder like Judas. His astonishingly innocent biographers talk as if these well-known *ymptoms were a confirmation of his spiritual apostleship. They merely confirm pur horror that the minds of Tittle children should be fed on hie hallucinations, Bunyan, if he had been granted the power, would have been one of the mort able tyrants that rant heel on his we have signation of were looking to when they had done their course here, There was only n who, with 2 splendid light is exes, Tam going out to one of the Dominions, sir." That of adventure is extraor Mothers and pathy since It is thought to coincidence that his retirement to take effect on November 6 which is the day on which Lord Bynge of Vimy succeeds Sir William Harwood isi Police. rons and single daughters are to Blame for it; but if we are to maintain our historic name which Englishmen and Scotsmen have achieved, if we are to maintain the great inheritance of our Empire, we have to be prepared to go out in Jarger numbers." There were, Sir Gregory added, remarkable openings in the Dominions for men and women of energy and ability.
Devil to he Burned The devil is in for a hot, time ext year, according to plang announced by the Salvation Army connection with the centenary celebration of the Wirth of its founder, General Willism Booth. ber 15 next, had a distinguished career in the Army afore going t2 Scotland Yard.
Since 1921 he has had the direction of the special branch at Sco! land Yard which deals with the control of aliens and the Criminal Investigation Department. Ie was responsible, in connection with the recent murder on the road in Essex of Police Constable Gutteridge, for establishing the cartridge-case clue, which proved an important factor in the conviction for murder of Browne and Kennedy. The worl of the special branch and the Criminal Investigation Department was, formerly performed by two Assistant Commissioners. Since Sir Wyndham bes held office, the
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