THE SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER

San Francisco, California, U.S.A.

9 July 1916

(page 8E)

Harry Stuart Writes Book.

Proves Original Thinker.

San Franciscans have become fairly well accustomed while skimming over the paper with their matutinal rolls and coffee, to recognize in the name of the author of the latest Eastern success in literature or art that of some old-time friend—the “Dick” or “Harry,” with whom in bygone years they foregathered here at club or counting house.

To all such, whose salad days are not too remote a reminiscence, Henry Clifford Stuart, author of “A Prophet in His Own Country”—hailed by Eastern thinkers as the most original work of the year—will require no introduction.

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BOLD, ORIGINAL TINKER.

Enter now Henry Clifford Stuart, bold original thinker, radical reformer, personal counselor of Dr. Sun Yat Sen and the new republic of China—philosopher, iconoclast, seer—in short, the author of “A Prophet in His Own Country.”

According to Aleister Crowley, who introduces Stuart to his readers in an appreciative foreword, the change has been a gradual one, extending over a period of five years.

In a beautiful home overlooking one of Washington’s most charming parks, this man, who has compressed the volcanic activity of several ordinary men’s lives into a scant twenty years, settled down to a philosophic contemplation of men, policies, current topics, the science of government and the fundamental causes that are shaping human society as it exists to-day.

His strikingly original thoughts . . .

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