THE FRESNO BEE

Fresno, California, U.S.A.

15 March 1953

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Here Are Brief Reviews

Of Some Of Newest Books.

THE GREAT BEAST: THE LIFE OF ALEISTER CROWLEY by John Symonds; Roy Publishers, New York; $4.50.

Poet, mountaineer, drug addict and cultist, Crowley was a fabulous Britisher whose exploits got him bounced from one country to another through most of the first half of this century. At least 10 books have been written about him previously: this one by his literary executor, is an exhaustive account of the man and his life on the lunatic fringe of society. The average reader may find it very exhausting as well.