The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

THE BIG STICK “Berashith” and “777,” perhaps not so successfully from the point of view of the beginner. There is of course much beyond this elementary study, and the neophyte will find nothing in the book which he does not know; but the book is addressed to those who know nothing. It will supply them with a fine basis for Qabalistic research, ALEISTER CROWLEY. THE PRIESTESS OF Isis, By EDOUARD SCHURE. Translated by F. RoTH- WELL, B.A. W. Rider and Son. 35. 6d. net. Books I and II. I have been trying to read this book for a week, but the rapidly recurring necessity to appear on the stage of “Pan, a comedy,” in the name-part, has interfered, and I have not yet finished it. But it speaks well for the book that I have not been too bored by it. I like both Hedonia and Alcyone, for I know them; but Memnones seems to lack cleanliness of line, and one understands Ombricius so little that one loses interest in his fortunes, Books III and IV. Book III did rather cheer me. But of course one knew all along that the Eruption was to be the God from the Machine. A great pity; why not another city and a less hackneyed catastrophe? But it’s as well done as possible within these limits. The translation might have been better done in one or two places—Bother! here’s Hedonia coming for lunch. What a wormy worm Ombricius was! D. Carr. PETER THE CRUEL. By EDWARD STORER. John Lane. This admirable story of a little-known monarch dresses once more the Middle Ages in robes of scarlet, winged and shot with a delicate impressionism. Mr. Storer wields a pen like the rod of Moses; he has struck the water of Romance from the Rock of History; such scenes have rarely been so vividly described since de Sade and Sacher-Masoch passed on to the Great Reward. CALIGULA II. MorAG THE SEAL. By J. W. BRODIE-INNES. Rebman. 6s. One must wish that Mr. Brodie-Innes’ English were equal to his imagination. Again and again a lack of perfect control over his medium spoils one of the finest stories ever thought, All the glamour of the Highlands is here; all love, IV zZ 329