Ambergris

PREFACE IN response to a widely-spread lack of interest in my writings, I have consented to publish a small and unrepresentative selection from the same. With characteristic cunning I have not included any po- ems published later than the Third Volume of my Collected Works. The selection has been made by a committee of seven competent persons, sitting separately. Only those poems have been included which ob- tained a majority vote. This volume, thus almost ostentatiously de- mocratic, is therefore now submitted to the British Public with the fullest confidence that it will be re- ceived with exactly the same amount of acclamation as that to which I have become accustomed. ALEISTER CROWLEY.