L.W. DeLaurence is perhaps most famous for his in-line ads and work with grimoires, but this stands out as perhaps one of his best works for those who actually desire to practice the content. Covering multiple methods of hypnotism and mesmerism, it purports to let the reader quite literally engage in such a practice. Nowadays reduced to a parlor trick or else to alternative medicine, suggestion of these various types is worth the study of occultists and remains very much actually, literally real.