During the last seven years of his life, George Du Maurier turned from his career as the leading artist for Punch and the popular illustrator of books to achieve new acclaim as a novelist. His three novels, Peter Ibbetson (1891), Trilby (1894) and The Martian (1897), became best-sellers in England and America. Although his works have been given scant attention in recent times, they have a powerful literary significance. In reshaping the traditional romantic novel, Du Maurier was one of the first British authors to introduce into fiction the subject of the unconscious mind. In his three novels he probes the processes of memory, dreams, hypnotism, free association, and automatic writing. Through these explorations Du Maurier was adapting the romantic novel to the burgeoning field of depth psychology. The author does not seem to have been aware that at the time he was writing his novels some of the most influential...