A Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde tale which substitutes hypnotic power for the potion of Stevenson’s story. Florian Amidon, an educated upright young banker, wakes up one morning to make the startling discovery that he has lost five years of his life to another personality—to Eugene Brassfield, of whom Amidon has not the slightest consciousness. The trouble for Amidon which grows out of the anything but irreproachable life of Brassfield furnishes the motif of the story, and introduces a series of novel situations.
“This novel has two legitimate claims to public interest. It is a pleasing love-story quite out of the ordinary beaten path of fiction, and it is a popular study of one of the latest assured results of modern psychology—the subliminal self or double personality.”
+ Arena. 36: 108. Jl. ’06. 670w. Critic. 48: 476. My. ’06. 180w.
“The story, moreover has a crisp and animated style that adds greatly to the charm. We can assure the reader of this tale much satisfaction.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + Dial. 40: 263. Ap. 16, ’06. 380w.
“The tale moves with alacrity and is never dull.”
+ Lit. D. 32: 624. Ap. 21, ’06. 180w.
“A capital story of strange happenings most convincingly told.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 78. F. 10, ’06. 480w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 385. Je. 16, ’06. 130w.