Genre:

Regular Feature, Abstract

Publications abstracted:

Du Maurier 1894

Subjects:

Mesmerism, Fear

    Reports the '"Trilby" boom' currently sweeping across America (367), and remarks that 'If Mr. Du Maurier's purpose had been to create a shudder, he might, without going beyond the authentic records of hypnotic experiment, have obtained much more gruesome examples of the new witchcraft than the comparatively innocent practices of Svengali' (374).