It Happened Yesterday: A Novel:

"It Happened Yesterday" is a novel turning upon the distasteful subject of mesmeric, or magnetic, influence. A more unpleasant theme for fiction could hardly be conceived; but it must be allowed that it is skillfully and powerfully handled by Mr. Frederick Marshall. The heroine and "subject" is a German; all the other personages are French, with the exception of the unauthorized influencer, who is a Russian. Though the work is interlarded with very few foreign phrases, the author is evident...