William Walker Atkinson Bibliography, Part 4

[robertmathiesen]

Here's the fourth installment of my bibliography of Atkinson's published books and booklets. This installment covers the books that he published using the pseudonym "Theron Q. Dumont" between 1913 and 1920. These works fit neatly between the books he published under his own name alone or under the pseudonym "Yogi Ramacharaka" (1901-1912, plus one outlier in 1914) and those which he co-authored with Edward E. Beals (1922).

Almost all of these titles can be read or downloaded at books.google.com and/or archive.org. The exceptions seem to be 1917b and 1919a.

I'm not entirely sure why Atkinson switched to a new pseudonym in 1913, and then returned to his legal name in 1922. Possibly he felt he had saturated the market for his own books, and wished to boost sales for his further books through the pretense of authorship by an unknown French master.

Atkinson had already experimented, in a small way, with the use of mysterious authorship as selling point as early as 1908 (_The Kybalion_, by "Three Initiates" and his anonymous _Arcane Teaching_ books in 1909-1911).

The fifth and final installment of my Atkinson bibliography will cover these works as well as a few published using other pseudonyms such as "Theodore Sheldon" (1913) and "Magnus Incognito" (1918).

There is good reason to assume that the pseudonymous books by "Swami Panchadasi" and "Swami Bhakta Vishita" are not Atkinson's work at all, but were written by Claude Alexander Conlin. I will not include them in my Atkinson bibliography.



4. Writing as Theron Q. Dumont

1913a The Art and Science of Personal Magnetism: The Secrets of Mental Fascination. (Culture of Personality, I.) 238 pp. First publ: Advanced Thought


1914b The Advanced Course in Personal Magnetism: The Secrets of Mental Fascination [later: The Psychology of Personal Magnetism: The Secrets of Mental Fascination]. (Culture of Personality, II.) 229 pp. First publ: Advanced Thought


1916a Mental Therapeutics; or, Just How to Heal Oneself and Others; Including the Latest and Best Methods of Present and Distant Mental Healing. 232 pp. First publ: Advanced Thought

1916b The Power of Concentration. 183 or 186 pp. First publ: Advanced Thought?

1916c Practical Memory Training. 310 pp. First publ: Advanced Thought


1917a The Master Mind; or, The Key to mental Power, Development and Efficiency. 276 pp.

1917b Successful Salesmanship. 320 pp.


1919a Character Reading: Its Theory and Practice. 223 pp.


1920a The Solar Plexus or Abdominal Brain. 64 pp.