... magician. Aleister Crowley. On one level, however, it fails to communicate much of the man him self, his character, motives, seminal influences, etc. Neither does it conj ure up the psychic energies, the mystic layers of existence, to which Crowley claimed ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... down stone dead. The Kindly Ones includes, among other treasures, the entrance of a curious figure recalling the late Aleister Crowley; a marvellous dinner-party at Sir Magnus Donner's ending with tableaux vivants demonstrating the abounding physical ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... book is presumably meant to be a self-portrait and the figure that emerges seems to be a sort of poor man's Aleister Crowley except that Crowley was not, to my knowledge, im prisoned in France and Italy or decorated by the King of Bulgaria. He appears ...

... 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 ...

... lot of rather glum sex the jacket speaks of infectious gaiety, hut hunt as I might the thing eluded me and a fearful Aleister Crowley figure who practises something called sex-magic. The book conveys with conviction the frustra tions and frowstiness ...

... 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 ...