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...Aldous Huxley-The Devils of Loudun...
Merton is obviously conversant with St. John of the Cross, St. Bernard, Aldous Huxley and Evelyn Waugh, but Graham thinks he is not too well grounded in his Bible ("Merton could have written all his books with less knowledge of the New Testament than the educated Christian layman's, eked out by a Scripture concordance.") "In one of his poems," writes Graham, "[he] is so far forgetful of the Book of Genesis as to speak of 'God and his bad earth...
...Devils of Loudun, by Aldous Huxley. A skillful account of the epidemic of devil-possession which beset the French town of Loudun in the 17th century, and of the rash priest who burned for it (TIME...
Among many readable books of true adventure, perhaps the most exciting was Ann Davison's Last Voyage, the tense report of a tragic effort, made with her husband, to cross the Atlantic in a small boat. Aldous Huxley made an appearance with an urbane history of some 17th century French Ursuline nuns who were possessed by The Devils of London. Rome and a Villa, an intellectual love affair that Author Eleanor Clark carried on with the Eternal City, made better reading than all the year's travel books put together. The finest picture book of the year...
...Devils of Loudun, by Aldous Huxley. A skillful account of the epidemic of devil-possession which beset the French town of Loudun in the 17th century, and of the rash priest who burned for it (TIME...