<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<GoodreadsResponse>
	<Request>
		<authentication>false</authentication>
		    <method><![CDATA[]]></method>
	</Request>
	<author>
  
  <id>758209</id>
  <name><![CDATA[C.J.S. Thompson]]></name>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/758209.C_J_S_Thompson]]></link>
  <fans_count type="integer">0</fans_count>
  <followers_count type="integer">0</followers_count>
  <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-200x266.jpg]]></image_url>
  <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
  <about><![CDATA[]]></about>
  <influences><![CDATA[]]></influences>
  <gender></gender>
  <hometown></hometown>
  <born_at></born_at>
  <died_at></died_at>
  
  <books>
        <book>
  <id type="integer">1639531</id>
  <isbn>0517026341</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780517026342</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">0</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Lure &amp; Romance of Alchemy]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1639531.Lure_Romance_of_Alchemy</link>
  <average_rating>5.00</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>2</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[Alchemy has appealed to the imagination of man for centuries and is evident from the prominent part it plays in the legends and romances of the past. At its dawn, alchemy was regarded as a divine and sacred art, enveloped in mystery, that was only to be approached with reverence. Its adepts held its secrets inviolate, enshrouded their operations with symbolism, and gave their materials fantastic names so as to conceal their identity from those outside the mystic cult. In this volume, Thompson unravels these mysteries and presents his findings to the reader. Handsomely illustrated.]]>
  </description>
<authors>
    <author>
    <id>758209</id>
        <name><![CDATA[C.J.S. Thompson]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-200x266.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/758209.C_J_S_Thompson]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.33</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>15</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>5</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>1990</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">1639532</id>
  <isbn>1566195039</isbn>
  <isbn13>9781566195034</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">0</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Mystery and Lore of Monsters]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1639532.Mystery_and_Lore_of_Monsters</link>
  <average_rating>3.00</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>3</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[With accounts of some giants, dwarfs and prodigies. Contents: monsters in tradition and mythology; monsters of Babylon four thousand years ago; monsters in the early centuries; monsters of the 16th century; monsters described by Ambroise Pare in the 16th century; some monsters and prodigies of the 17th century; some curious monsters and prodigies and their bills; extraordinary monsters and prodigies; some celebrated conjoined twins; two headed Nightingale and other notable twins; of crafty tricks and cozenage; wild men of the woods and some horrible monstrous beasts; monsters of the deep; monsters in art; psychology of monsters, the law of monsters; giants in mythology, giants in ancient times; giants in legend and story; giants in the 16th century; some giants of the 17th and 18th centuries; some famous Irish giants of the 18th century; some giants of the 19th century; early traditions concerning dwarfs and pygmies; dwarfs at the English courts; dwarfs and prodigies of the 17th century; remarkable dwarfs and prodigies of the 18th century; the Count Boruwlaski and other court dwarfs; eccentric and musical dwarfs; General Tom Thumb and his carrier; dwarfs at Bartholomew fair.]]>
  </description>
<authors>
    <author>
    <id>758209</id>
        <name><![CDATA[C.J.S. Thompson]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-200x266.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/758209.C_J_S_Thompson]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.33</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>15</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>5</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>1970</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">5984518</id>
  <isbn>0883650291</isbn>
  <isbn13 nil="true"></isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">2</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[The Mysteries of Sex: Women Who Posed as Men and Men Who Impersonated Women]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1228846148m/5984518.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1228846148s/5984518.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5984518.The_Mysteries_of_Sex_Women_Who_Posed_as_Men_and_Men_Who_Impersonated_Women</link>
  <average_rating>4.00</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>2</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[Stranger than any fantasy fiction are these true stories of impersonation-of men who posed as women, women who posed as men, and individuals who pretended claim to royal and other titles.]]>
  </description>
<authors>
    <author>
    <id>758209</id>
        <name><![CDATA[C.J.S. Thompson]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-200x266.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/758209.C_J_S_Thompson]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.33</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>15</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>5</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>1974</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">1639551</id>
  <isbn>1859581560</isbn>
  <isbn13>9781859581568</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">0</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Mysteries and Secrets of Magic]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1639551.Mysteries_and_Secrets_of_Magic</link>
  <average_rating>2.50</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>2</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[Magic is a subject that has always been of profound interest to mankind. The subject is so vast and far-reaching that it is little to be wondered at that no complete history of it has been attempted, and many fields are still unexplored. This work consists of a brief survey of the magical practices that prevailed among various early peoples in different parts of the world and it will be seen that the same fundamental principles underlay their beliefs in the occult.]]>
  </description>
<authors>
    <author>
    <id>758209</id>
        <name><![CDATA[C.J.S. Thompson]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-200x266.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/758209.C_J_S_Thompson]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.33</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>15</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>5</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>1927</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">2561095</id>
  <isbn>0766136094</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780766136090</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">1</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Quacks of Old London (1928)]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2561095.Quacks_of_Old_London</link>
  <average_rating>4.00</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>1</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[Advertising was the mainspring of the quacks who flocked to London and became prominent in the social life of the time.  Included in this book, for the first time, are many rare, quaintly worded effusions, with their rhymes and curious illustrations, used by the quacks of the day in their advertising. A sample of the contents includes chapters entitled: origin of the quack doctor; famous quacks in the time of the Stuarts; quack astrologers and fortune tellers; notorious London quacks and their remedies; foreign quacks; old quack medicines; quacks of Covent Garden and Piccadilly, and Brodum, Solomon and Graham.]]>
  </description>
<authors>
    <author>
    <id>758209</id>
        <name><![CDATA[C.J.S. Thompson]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-200x266.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/758209.C_J_S_Thompson]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.33</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>15</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>5</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>1993</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">5076225</id>
  <isbn>1566192110</isbn>
  <isbn13>9781566192118</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">1</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Poison and Poisoners]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5076225.Poison_and_Poisoners</link>
  <average_rating>3.00</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>1</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[]]>
  </description>
<authors>
    <author>
    <id>758209</id>
        <name><![CDATA[C.J.S. Thompson]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-200x266.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/758209.C_J_S_Thompson]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.33</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>15</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>5</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>1993</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">1757154</id>
  <isbn>0806511389</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780806511382</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">0</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Giants, Dwarfs and Other Oddities]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1757154.Giants_Dwarfs_and_Other_Oddities</link>
  <average_rating>3.00</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>1</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[]]>
  </description>
<authors>
    <author>
    <id>758209</id>
        <name><![CDATA[C.J.S. Thompson]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-200x266.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/758209.C_J_S_Thompson]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.33</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>15</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>5</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>1989</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">853595</id>
  <isbn>0486421104</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780486421100</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">0</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Alchemy and Alchemists]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178917351m/853595.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178917351s/853595.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/853595.Alchemy_and_Alchemists</link>
  <average_rating>3.00</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>1</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;Well-researched study traces history of alchemy, chronicling search for philosopher's stone and elixir of life, alchemist's laboratory and apparatus, symbols and secret alphabets, famous practitioners, plus contributions to field of chemistry. Concise, authoritative. Unabridged reprint of the classic 1932 edition. 77 black-and-white illustrations, 31 plates.<br/>&lt;/div&gt;]]>
  </description>
<authors>
    <author>
    <id>758209</id>
        <name><![CDATA[C.J.S. Thompson]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-200x266.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/758209.C_J_S_Thompson]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.33</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>15</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>5</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>2002</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">2606251</id>
  <isbn>0517688336</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780517688335</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">0</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Magic and Healing]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1219431258m/2606251.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1219431258s/2606251.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2606251.Magic_and_Healing</link>
  <average_rating>2.00</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>1</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[In this book, Dr. Thompson has traced the history of magic in medicine in every country where it was practiced throughout the centuries, up to its counterpart in modern times, the psychological treatment of disease. Healing by incantation, by sympathy, by touch and with the aid of astrology are all discussed. Folk medicine and herbs of healing, precious stones, rings and girdles used in healing and even beds of healing all have their place within this strange story. Handsomely illustrated.]]>
  </description>
<authors>
    <author>
    <id>758209</id>
        <name><![CDATA[C.J.S. Thompson]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-200x266.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/758209.C_J_S_Thompson]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.33</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>15</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>5</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>1989</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">6691923</id>
  <isbn>1566192544</isbn>
  <isbn13>9781566192545</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">0</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Mystery and Romance of Astrology]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6691923-mystery-and-romance-of-astrology</link>
  <average_rating>0.0</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>0</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[1930. Astrology, the oldest of the sciences, exercised a fascination over mankind from the earliest period of which we have record, and the romance associated with the stars has inspired poets in all ages. As will be seen in this book, astrology and astronomy developed side by side, but, as in the case of other ancient arts which possessed the germ of truth, the latter has gradually freed itself from the mass of superstition which clustered around it, and has emerged as the true science of the heavens.]]>
  </description>
<authors>
    <author>
    <id>758209</id>
        <name><![CDATA[C.J.S. Thompson]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-200x266.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/758209.C_J_S_Thompson]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.33</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>15</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>5</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>1994</published>
</book>

      <books>
</author>
</GoodreadsResponse>