George Redways Publications. 5 1 



"The present single volume is a digest of half-a-dozen books enumerated 

 by the present author in a 'biographical and critical essay' with which 

 he prefaces his undertaking. These are the Dogme et Ritual de la Haute 

 Magie, the Histoire de la Magie, the Clef des Grands Mysteres, the 

 Sorrier de Mcndon, the Philosophic Occulte, and the Science des Esprits. 

 To attack the whole series which, indeed, it might be difficult to obtain 

 now in a complete form would be a bold undertaking, but Mr Waite 

 has endeavoured to give his readers the essence of the whole six books in a 

 relatively compact compass. . . . THE BOOK BEFORE us is ENCYCLOPEDIC 

 IN ITS RANGE, and it would be difficult to find a single volume which is better 

 calculated to supply modern inquiries with a general conception of the scope 

 and purpose of the occult sciences at large. It freely handles, amongst 

 others, the ghastly topics of witchcraft and black magic, but certainly 

 it would be difficult to imagine any reader tempted to enter those pathways 

 of experiment by the picture of their character and purpose that Eliphas L6vi 

 supplies. In this way the intrepid old Kabbalist, though never troubling his 

 readers with sublime exhortations in the interests of virtue, writes under the 

 inspiration of an uncompromising devotion to the loftiest ideals, and all his 

 philosophy ' makes for righteousness.' " Mr A. P. Sinnett in Light. 



"We are grateful to Mr Waite for translating the account of how L^vi, in 

 a lone chamber in London, called up the spirit of Apollonius of Tyana. 

 This very creepy composition is written in quite the finest manner of the late 

 Lord Lytton when he was discoursing upon the occult." The Saturday 

 Review* 



Demy iSmo, pp. vi. and 132, with Woodcuts, Fancy Cloth, \s. 



John Leech, Artist and 

 Humourist. 



A Biographical Sketch. 



BY FRED. G. KITTON. 



New Edition, Revised. 



" In the absence of a fuller biography we cordially welcome Mr Kitton's 

 interesting little sketch. " Notes and Queries. 



"The multitudinous admirers of the famous artist will find this touching 

 monograph well worth careful reading and preservation." Daily Chronicle. 



"THE VERY MODEL OF WHAT SUCH A MEMOIR SHOULD BE." Graphic. 



