THE DEVIL BANNED
A TACTFUL ANSWER Mr Arundel! Esdaile, who has retired from the position of secretary of the British Museum with which ha has been associated for 30 years* tells a story of a tactful superintendent of the Museum, who was approached by a shabbily dressed old man with a long grey beard, and asked if with the. aid of some'Vbooks on black magic in the library, he might be allowed to "raise the Devil' in the big reading room. "Nothing would give me greater pleasure," said the superintendent, "but unfor tunately the trustees, of whom the Archbishop of Canterbury is chairman, have recently passed a special minute absolutely forbidding the practice. The superintendent's reply afterwards became the tradition and model of tact for all assistants at the Museum, in dealing with the public.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 192, 29 July 1940, Page 7
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135THE DEVIL BANNED Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 192, 29 July 1940, Page 7
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