THE OAKLAND TRIBUNE

Oakland, California, U.S.A.

23 November 1952

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THE BOOK BAG:

A Quick Dip Into The Current Offerings.

THE GREAT BEAST.

THE GREAT BEAST, by John Symonds; Roy Publishers, N.Y.; $4.50. Enjoying a dubious and melodramatic distinction as “the wickedest man in the world,” the career of Aleister Crowley, diabolist, inverted mystic, crackpot charlatan, drug addict and psychopath with Messianic delusions, well repays attention to the anthropologist, the psychiatrist, and anyone curious about most peculiar people.