THE EVENING EXPRESS

Liverpool, Lancashire, England

3 September 1930

(page 6)

Well Worth Reading.

"The Legend of Aleister Crowley,” by P.R. Stephensen ( Mandrake Press); 2/6.

Here we have set down probably for the first time a study of the documentary evidence relating to the campaign of personal vilification against that most curious of modern mystics Aleister Crowley.

The author gives a thumb-nail sketch of this extraordinary personality and his influence on modern thought, and he has collected and collated Press and private opinions in a singularly complete manner.

Most of the critical storm, it will be remembered, arose as a result of the publication of “The Diary of a Drug Fiend,” and was taken up by the type of critic who could never see any good in D. H. Lawrence.