SOURCE: A review of The Shining Pyramid, in The New Republic, Vol. XXXV, No. 453, August 8, 1923, p. 300.

In the following review, Douglas offers a favorable assessment of The Shining Pyramid.

Men ask for bread, and Mr. Arthur Machen gives them the Sangraal. We all do seek our meat from Shaw, and Mr. Machen asks that we feed on dreams. His heroines faint to the echo of elfin horns blown by the little people of the mist. His heroes wander in search of la belle dame sans merci on spectral meadows, or in the secret caverns of abominable gnomes.

If Mr. Machen has now come into his literary own it has been at an untold cost of loneliness and neglect and oblivion. As much as any other living author he has completed Goethe's definition that to know the powers of heaven you must eat your bread with tears. Nothing can...