TIME

New York, New York, USA

30 July 1923

(page 17)

BOOKS

THE DIARY OF A DRUG FIEND—Aleister Crowley—Dutton ($2.00).

Sir Peter Pendragon, demobilized English ace, acquires the cocaine habit and a lady her friends term “Unlimited Lou” in the same large evening. They marry and proceed to Paris—varying cocaine with heroin when the first begins to pall—and, after a lurid continental honeymoon, return to England and sink into the nethermost hell of the drug-user. From this they are rescued by an extraordinary swami-plus-demigod, yclept King Lamus, who removes them to the island of Telepylus—a sort of Marie Correllian Abbey of Theleme—where they are finally made to cure themselves. A gaudy, wholly incredible penny-dreadful.