This vintage book contains Florence Beatrice Emery Farr's 1894 short story, The Dancing Faun . This volume is highly recommended for those who have read and enjoyed other works by this author, and it is not to be missed by collectors of vintage literature related to the occult. Florence Beatrice Emery Farr (1860 1917) was an English actress, activist, director, composer, novelist, singer, and journalist. She the leader of the infamous occult order The Golden Dawn and associated with many famous people of her time, including William Butler Yeats and Oscar Wilde. Other notable works by this...

This is the final book written by the seventeenth-century occultist and alchemist, Thomas Vaughan (1621 66). Originally published under Vaughan's penname, Eugenius Philalethes, in 1655, the work found a new audience in the Rosicrucian circles of the nineteenth century, when William Wynn Westcott, Supreme Magus of the Society, republished the volume in 1896 with a commentary by an associate, S. S. D. D. 'I have read many Alchemical Treatises', its annotator comments, 'but never one of less use to the practical Alchemist than this.' For its later readers, however, the value of the text lay in...