also found in the tale of the Fisherman and the Djinn in the _Arabian Nights_, which was also treated by the German poet Klopstock in his poem “Wintermärchen” (1776). The devil, as it is said in this story, has a mortal hatred of the sound of bells. The origin of ringing the church bells was, according to Sir James Frazer, to drive away devils and witches. The devil in Poe’s story “The Devil in the Belfry” (1839) was, indeed, very courageous in invading the belfry. The concluding part of the story is identical with the Machiavellian tale of Belphagor. This tale of the Devil’s mother-in-law first appeared in the volume _Cuentos y poesias populares Andaluces_ (Seville, 1859), which was translated the same year into French by Germond de Lavigne under the title _Nouvelles andalouses_. An English translation under the title _Spanish Fairy Tales_ appeared in 1881. This particular story was rendered again into English two years later and included in _Tales from Twelve Tongues_, translated by a British Museum Librarian [Richard Garnett?], London, 1883. THE GENEROUS GAMBLER BY CHARLES PIERRE BAUDELAIRE This worshipper and singer of Satan shared his American _confrère’s_ predilection for the devil. He found his models in the diabolical scenes of Edgar Allan Poe, whom he interpreted to the Latin world. “Baudelaire,” said Théophile Gautier, his master and friend, “had a singular prepossession for the devil as a tempter, in whom he saw a dragon who hurried him into sin, infamy, crime, and perversity.” To Baudelaire, the trier of men’s souls, the Tempter, was as real a person as he was to Job. He believed that the devil had a great deal to do with the direction of human destinies. “C’est le Diable qui tient les fils qui nous remuent!” Men are mere puppets in the hands of the devil. “Baudelaire’s motto,” as Mr. James Huneker has well remarked, “might be the reverse of Browning’s lines: The Devil is in his heaven. All’s wrong with the world.” Baudelaire’s devil is a dandy and a boulevardier with wings. Each author, it has been said, creates the devil in his own image.