The Devil's Pool

“The Devil’s Pool” is the most popular of George Sand’s novellas and her best-selling work in France today. “The revelers of Holbein fill their glasses in a frenzy to dispel the idea of Death who is their cup-bearer though they do not see him. The unjust rich of our own day demand cannon and barricades to drive out the idea of an insurrection of the people which Art shows them as slowly working in the dark getting ready to burst upon the State. The Church of the Middle Ages met the terrors of the great of the earth with the sale of indulgences. The government of to-day soothes the uneasiness of the rich by exacting from them large sums for the support of policemen jailors bayonets and prisons.”