The Sunday of the Paralytic by Joshua Alan Sturgill
Into the Great Deep: This service over those drowned men of the lost submarine was surely one of the strangest that has ever been held. They, in the very act of death, were already buried: they were coffined in the boat that they had served, and as they died their roomy grave was prepared already and awaited them; even the vast and shining hollow of the sea.
Whereunto Shall I Liken This Generation? by Joshua Alan Sturgill
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle guides into the frigid wastes on an expedition of horror in The Captain of the “Pole-Star.”
The War Behind The War: So all through the book Mr. Hind sees the temporal conflict as the mere veil of the eternal battle; and thus, I say, that he has been afforded a great and singular privilege: that is, he has written the book which our Bishops should have written. Presumably; it is their business, or a chief part of their business, as pontiffs of the Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church to discern things eternal in things temporal, to proffer the clear lamp of eternal light to those who go down into the thick darkness of the battle. However, they have not quite seen their duty in this aspect…
SHORT FICTION
Dialogue Between a Swallow and a Sinner by Rafael Pereira Bianchin
NEW POETRY
Apprentice by Joshua Alan Sturgill
Nanasimgit by Benjamin Rozonoyer
Some Thoughts on Robert Louis Stevenson: Personally, I have always been of the opinion that the best criticism of R. L. S. was penned in the leading columns of the Pall Mall Gazette on the day on which Stevenson’s death was announced. The leading article spoke of the dead author as among the greatest of “The Little Masters”; and as I say, it seems to me that no juster verdict could possibly be given.
NEW POETRY
More Are The Children by Joshua Alan Sturgill
Saviour by Benjamin Rozonoyer
The Book of Common Joys: Boffin, the Golden Dustman, as all know, hired Silas Wegg, a literary man with a wooden leg, to read Roman history to him and Mrs. Boffin. The work selected was “Decline and Fall of the Rooshan Empire,” as Mr. Boffin said. It was in reality Gibbon’s immortal masterpiece, and so Mr. Boffin became involved in the decadence of imperial Rome, and “Commodus, under the appellation Commodious, unworthy of his English origin and ‘not to have acted up to his name’ in his government of the Roman people.”
NEW & FEATURED POETRY
Wounded Reaching & Holy Wednesday by Joshua Alan Sturgill
Righteous Seed (Holy Monday) & Lamentations by Mark Mosley
The East in the West: The symbolism is of heaven brought down to earth, of the priest standing a mortal amidst a host of the undying. The awful orders of the angels are about him, about him are the companies of the saints, around him stand the martyrs in dyed robes, having exchanged earthly anguish and the flames of burning torment for the eternal aureoles of heaven. With the prayers of the priest and of the people their prayers ascend to the place of the Majesty on high, and there is represented in a mystery the High Sacrifice of Calvary.
For Machen Study – No 40, we present a recent lecture given by Joshuas Alan Sturgill on the Apostle of Wonder… “Machen’s work is meant to cause shuddering at what is always present around us, but rarely seen. His fiction work is suggestive and descriptive, rather than exciting and gory, and his essays always gravitate toward the transcendent in everyday things.”
War and Spring Poets: Poetry and song are more truly natural to man than prose and common speech. This sounds odd to our sophisticated ears, but it is undoubtedly true. Man, then, is, by his inmost, primitive nature, a lyrical being, he naturally uttered himself in song long before he took to the habit of speaking in prose and in flat, unmusical accents.
NEW POETRY
Between Two Lives by Joshua Alan Sturgill
Villanelle of the Elect by Jesse Keith Butler
A new poem by Butler, The Life of the Lake, has been published in the pages of the Cloud Lake Literary. Congratulations!
Mr. Wells’ Radium Bomb: “The radium bomb is the god from the machine of Mr. Wells’s new story-essay. Physical science makes a great leap, radioactive forces become its servants. … But, frankly, it seems to me that the whole book and all its theories are vitiated by what I venture to consider Mr. Wells’s radical misconception of human happiness, what it is, and how it is gained.”
BOOK UPDATE: A Reader of Curious Books by Arthur Machen is back in stock.
NEW POETRY
Those Who Came Before by Joshua Alan Sturgill
Snow Was General by Benjamin Rozonoyer
Concerning Mr. Wells: This week, Machen reviews Wells’ book An Englishman Looks At The World. As you may guess, the two thinkers look at the world quite differently.
BOOK UPDATE
A Reader of Curious Books by Arthur Machen is currently out-of-stock. A new impression has been ordered and should be available soon.
A Secret Language by Arthur Machen: Only six copies remain of this limited edition chapbook.
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POETIC CATECHISM:
A Lecture by Joshua Alan Sturgill on Becoming Orthodox Slowly and Completely.
My Wandering Week, Part IV: Sunlight! It poured upon us, and made the pleasant land all golden, and glittered on the ripples of the rushing brooks as the steeps of the Quantocks closed in upon us. The farmers allowed that they could do with a drop of rain, but their eyes twinkled and their hearts were evidently set to cheerfulness.
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