THE SCOTSMAN

Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland

25 July 1904

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From the Society for the Propagation of Religious Truth, Boleskine, Foyers, Inverness, comes a poetic play in five acts, written by Mr Aleister Crawley, and entitled, “The Argonauts.” Following at an independent distance the old Greek tragic forms, and developing its action in lyrical passages and dialogue, it makes an adaptation at once scholarly and interesting of the ancient legend of the golden fleece and the ill-starred loves of Jason and Medea. It will not prove the less attractive to sympathetic readers because its charm is derived rather from classical culture than from original poetical inspiration.