Introduction to the Life and Work of Pascal Beverly Randolph Of all the magicians, philosophers and poets of the nineteenth century, there can be no more mysterious figure than Pascal Beverly Randolph. He was famous in his own .time for his novels and his theoretical treatises in pioneer areas of medicine and psychology. He numbered among his friends such persons as Abraham Lincoln, Napoleon III, Eliphas Levi, Lord Bulwer-Lytton, Charles Mackay and other notables of the day.