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A LITERARY LETTER: Lord Northcliffe's Will

... Lloyd George. By E. T. Raymond. Is, Gd. net. Rosf.anne. By E. Maria Albanesi. 7s.6d.net. The Diary of a Drug Fiend. By Aleister Crowley. 7s. Gd. net. Pender Among the Residents. By Forrest Reid. 7s. 6d. net. Essays in Liberalism. 2s. 6d. net. Labour: The ...

Published: Saturday 17 February 1923
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2496 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

LABELS AND LIBELS and a Terrible Tale

... piece of sculpture he found it hopelessly inadequate to its fame, and just about as inscrutable and enigmatic as Mr. Aleister Crowley, who may or may not be pleased with the comparison. In Pompeii the object that most in terested him was the plaster ...

Published: Wednesday 01 October 1930
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1815 | Page: 52 | Tags: Review 

No Orgies

... Touth (Rupert Hart-Davis, 12s. 6d.), and owing to the cabalistic symbols on the wrapper, and the frequent references to Aleister Crowley, who seems to have had some not very clearly defined influence on several of the characters introduced, we are led to ...

Published: Wednesday 21 November 1951
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1770 | Page: 41 | Tags: Review 

MR. BELUNCLE: CANON JAMES; SOME I KNEW WELL; A WORLD APART

... personality like some magnificent cathedral Gordon Bottomley, a notable figure, a big and handsome fellow bearded like Jove; Aleister Crowley, of whom Mr. Bax says that we are mistaken if we think of him as a mountebank Arnold Bennett, W. H. Davies, George Russet ...

Published: Wednesday 19 December 1951
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1300 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

Books

... Marshall takes us into, reminiscing about boyhood and Oxford, for it had links with that Beast 666 of the Apocalypse Aleister Crowley, his black magic rites, and young men like Raoul Loveday who came under his sinister influence. The Magic of My Youth ...

Published: Tuesday 01 January 1952
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1958 | Page: 62 | Tags: Review 

A JANUARY AVALANCHE OF BOOKS: Few of Them Trivial, Most of Them Stimulating, Amusing or Informative

... respect the talent and admire the industry of writers, I cannot help feeling that Mr. Charles Richard Cammell's memoir of Aleister Crowley the Man The Mage The Poet (Richards Press. 15s.), must have been easier to write than it now is to read. To begin with ...

Published: Saturday 19 January 1952
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1743 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

VANDENBERG'S VOLTE-FACE FOR VICTORY: The Son of One of America's Leading Republican Politicians Collates and ..

... candid sentiment and the kindliness of his memory. Not everyone will agree with Mr. CammeU's assessment of his friend Aleister Crowley's poetic gifts, or with all his literary judgments, but the charm of the book lies not in these but in the circum stances ...

Published: Saturday 17 January 1953
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1749 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

SURGEONS DEFT WITH THE PEN: James Harpole and William Sharpe Both Make Notable Contributions to the Literature ..

... the author corresponded as a schoolboy, though he never met him Frank Harris. the most remarkable literary blackguard Aleister Crowley, J ohn Cowper Powys, T. F. Powys and Llewellyn Powys, and William Somerset Maugham. These reminiscences of the more or ...

Published: Saturday 07 March 1953
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1703 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

THE SINGER NOT THE SONG: DIPLOMATIC DIVERSIONS; OBIT DELAYED; SEVEN FRIENDS

... wild piece of exaggeration about a man as small and sordid as Harris, but he is more illuminating on another charlatan, Aleister Crowley, in whom he saw good and picturesque qualities unnoticed by other critics. It is when he comes to the thret Powys brothers ...

Published: Wednesday 11 March 1953
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1237 | Page: 24 | Tags: Review 

IN THE SENATOR'S SHADOW: An American Causerie of Crime and Punishment

... which march across these pages include Noel Pemberton Billing, M.P., Lord Alfred Douglas, Rasputin, Horatio Bottomley and Aleister Crowley. The most important piece of news between the crossing of the Rubicon and the dropping of the first atom bomb, says Michael ...

Published: Saturday 26 December 1953
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 851 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

A GREAT AND LONELY HERO: The Story of Captain Durrani, G.C.; Hannibal's Elephants; Scotland in the Seventeenth ..

... dictionary of Victorian artists, and attending auction sales of bric-a-brac. Mr. John Symonds, who once wrote a biography of Aleister Crowley, writes with detachment rather than passion about his hero's affairs of the heart, and the result is an odd, amusing ...

Published: Saturday 26 November 1955
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1643 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

SOMETHING TO READ N THE SITTING-ROOM

... Thomas Sterling, whose recent book, The End of the Day, was published this month by Victor Gollancz, Ltd. I; ohn. Or Aleister Crowley. He wore a cloak he said made him ii ivisible. j Did it asks Clara. i No, it just frightened people, but if they didn't ...

Published: Wednesday 28 December 1955
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1064 | Page: 43 | Tags: Review