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Dr. Blanchard's book is a pleasing presentation of a timely and important subject. The woman movement has raised many issues that are pregnant with great possibilities. Woman's entrance into the political field is bound to result in marked social changes in various directions. To some her activities are the beginning of no less than a real revolution in political ideals. Her age-long training as mother, they think, has made it possible for her to renounce immediate results and to work for the future and for coming generations much more wisely and effectively than man has been able to. Certain it is that she is entering upon her new activities with vigor and determination to accomplish something, and it is meet that she should survey her own psychology so that she may know with what she is equipped to undertake her new activities and in what directions she may expect her greatest successes. Dr. Blanchard endeavors to size up the budding personality of the adolescent girl and in the main she applies the measuring rod of psychoanalysis to its interpretation. She has produced not only a readable and an interesting book but one which is full of suggestion. Incidentally it gives the reader a very good idea of the psychoanalytic viewpoint and must be of value both to those who want to know something of this viewpoint and those who wish to know something of the inner nature of woman.
White