In 1917 at the height of his fame, Alan Leo was charged with
fortune-telling, which was illegal, and taken to court. He had been
tried on similar charges in 1914, which had been dismissed. But the
charges brought in 1917 stuck. Leo was given a hefty fine. As
winning on appeal seemed unlikely, Leo paid the fine and went to
Cornwall for a rest, where on 30 August, 1917, he unexpectedly died
of a cerebral hemorrhage, aged 57. His friends blamed it on the
strain of the court proceedings.At the time of his death, this
Dictionary was one of Leo's unfinished projects. Installments of
the Dictionary had appeared in Leo's monthly magazine, Modern
Astrology, up to the end of the article "Horoscope" (pgs. 130-136).
That the project was long-standing is hinted by the article on
Hindu Astrology (pgs. 76-101), written by Sepharial some years
before and which Leo had presumably purloined. More material was in
preparation, but Leo's untimely death brought matters to a halt.By
the early 1920's, Vivian Robson had succeeded Leo as editor of
Modern Astrology, a post he shared with Bessie Leo, the widow. An
intense, scholarly type, Robson stumbled across bound copies of
Leo's incomplete book while he was compiling his own astrological
dictionary. At the suggestion of Bessie, Robson abandoned his
dictionary and set about to complete Leo's, using the many notes
and fragments that Leo had left.Which was published in 1929 as Alan
Leo's final book. Shortly thereafter Bessie and Vivian had a
falling out, whereupon Vivian left. This book was to be an
orphan.Like its precursor, James Wilson's Dictionary of Astrology
of 1819, Leo's book contains several full-blown monographs. Both
books have lengthy entries on Horary Astrology, for example. These
articles tend to break the flow of the book. For this reason the
current publishers, Astro-America, have added headings to each
page, that the reader may know whereabouts in the book he may be.
The publishers have also added a list of principal articles to the
front, as well as a complete list of entries (forming an index) in
the back.Alan Leo's Dictionary of Astrology is again in print.
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