BY GEORGE HASTINGS.

PAPER, 25 CENTS.

PRESS CRITICISMS:

"We do not purpose to rob the story of the zest which remains for the reading by telling here all the ingenious but reasonable complications which beset this man, how love withers under the unseen blight, how rest forsakes him, how success becomes a satire, and how the impervious will sinks into impotency when beset by intangible and inscrutable forces. It is enough to point out that in this book the author has planted his characters upon an elemental truth, and something of the efficacy of that truth gives a strange fascination and power to the story."--_New York World._

"It is a cleverly wrought and highly interesting novel, constructed upon somewhat unconventional lines. There is just enough medical science and metaphysics in it to give it spice; there are two murders, a trial and conviction of an innocent man on circ.u.mstantial evidence, a series of confidential domestic scenes, and a dash of hypnotism--surely enough to capture the fancy of the inveterate or occasional novel reader. . . . It is a curious but entrancing novel, and once caught in its seductive meshes the reader will find it hard to escape. Incidentally some of Inspector Byrnes' peculiar detective methods are severely satirized."--_The Brooklyn Standard-Union._

"It is clever in its way, but trash."--_The Buffalo Courier._

"It places the author in the foremost rank of American writers of fiction. . . . It will live--a surpa.s.singly clever delineation of a strange phase of human character."--_The London Times._

"Philip Henson, M. D., by George Hastings, is indifferent and mediocre."--_The New York Daily Continent._

"Philip Henson, M. D., is more than clever--it is masterly. In exciting and absorbing interest this book excels the novels of Gaboriau and De Boisgobey, and the sketches and characters are capitally drawn. For example, Inspector Byrnes and his methods have never before been so accurately described."--_The Spirit of the Times._

"A story quite out of the ordinary."--_The Kansas City Journal._

"Very dramatically told, and a well-conceived and thrilling narrative."--_America._

"The plot of Philip Henson, M. D., is remarkably strong and tragic. Mr.

Hastings is a graphic writer."--_The Sacramento Record-Union._

AMERICAN SERIES.

t.i.tLES ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED

TWENTY-FIVE CENT SERIES.

Abbey Murder, The. Jos. Hatton.

Alas! Rhoda Broughton.

Allan Quatermain. H. Rider Haggard.

Allan's Wife. H. Rider Haggard.

All Sorts and Conditions of Men. Walter Besant and James Rice.

American Girl in London, An. Sara Jeannette Duncan.

American Notes. Rudyard Kipling.

Amethyst. Christabel R. Coleridge.

April's Lady. The d.u.c.h.ess.

Aristocrat in America, An.

Armorel of Lyonesse. Walter Besant.

Artificial Fate, An. Clarence Boutelle.

Artist and Model. Rene de Pont Jest.

As In a Looking-gla.s.s. F. C. Phillips.

Auld Licht Idylls. J. M. Barrie.

Averil. Rosa Nouchette Carey.

Awakening of Mary Fenwick, The. Beatrice Whitby.

Bachelor's Blunder, A. W. E. Norris.

Baffled Conspirators, The. W. E. Norris.

Bag of Diamonds, The. G. Manville Fenn.

Bank Tragedy, The. Mary R. P. Hatch.

Baptized with a Curse. Edith Stewart Drewry.

Beaton's Bargain. Mrs. Alexander.

Beatrice. H. Rider Haggard.

Be Quick and Be Dead. Ophelia Hives.

Birch Dene. William Westall.

Black Tulip, The. Alexandre Dumas.

Blind Fate. Mrs. Alexander.

Blind Love. Wilkie Collins.

Born Coquette, A. The d.u.c.h.ess.

Bound by a Spell. Hugh Conway.

By Order of the Czar. Jos. Hatton.

By Woman's Wit. Mrs. Alexander.

Camille. Alexandre Dumas.

Cardinal Sin, A. Hugh Conway.

Cast Up by the Sea. Sir Samuel W. Baker.

Cleopatra. H. Rider Haggard.

Colonel Quaritch, V. C. H. Rider Haggard.

Confessions of a Woman, The. Mabel Collins.

Count of Monte-Cristo, The. Alexandre Dumas.

Courting of Dinah Shadd, The. Rudyard Kipling.

Cradled in a Storm. Theodore A. Sharp.

Crooked Path, A. Mrs. Alexander.

Daughter of Heth, A. William Black.

Daughter's Sacrifice, A. F. C. Phillips.

Dawn. H. Rider Haggard.

Dean and His Daughter, The. F. C. Phillips.

Dean's Daughter, The. Sophie F. Veitch.

Deemster, The. Hall Caine.

Demoniac, The. Walter Besant.

Derrick Vaughn, Novelist. Edna Lyall.

Diana Barrington. Mrs. John Croker.

Diary of a Pilgrimage. Jerome K. Jerome.

Dmitri. F. W. Bain, M.A.

Dodo and I. Capt. A. Haggard.

Donald Ross of Heimra. William Black.

Donovan. Edna Lyall.

Dora Thorne. Charlotte M. Braeme.

Doris's Fortune. F. Warden.

Dr. Cupid. Rhoda Broughton.

Dr. Glennie's Daughter. B. L. Farjeon.