THE BOOKSELLER

New York, New York, U.S.A.

1 July 1923

(page 13)

RECORD OF NEW BOOKS.

Diary of a Drug Fiend, The. By Aleister Crowley. $2.00. N. Y.—Dutton.

An absorbing story of the unsuspected powers of the human will, powers that rightly directed can bring back even those who are so far enslaved by drugs that they seem utterly helpless addicts. The author claims that it is a true story, that every detail is based on facts personally known to him. Certainly the awful fascination of cocaine and heroin, the ghastly mental and moral havoc caused by drugs and the terrific struggle necessary to break off the drug life constitute an awful and solemn warning to all who would try the “snow” because it seems so attractive.