The Power Within Us. By Charles Baudouin. Translated from the French by Eden and Cedar Paul. Cloth. Price $1.50. Pp.  196. New York:  Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1923.

This volume is a simple presentation for the general lay reader of the author's view concerning the regulative functions of thought and imagination in the daily life of the individual. The subject matter is divided into eight topics or chapters, as follows: Thought as an Agent; The Physical Bases; Personality and Free Development; The Inner Life and Individualism; Concentration; Emotional Forces; Effort and Courage, and Personal Ascendancy.

The author writes at length upon the action of mental phenomena upon other mental phenomena, as well as upon the body through the working of natural law; he attempts to explain courage and moral energy, and characterizes genius as being the result of a common urge of all the energies in a single direction, the energies arising from tendency and instinct; here emphasis is laid upon the danger invited by repressing a vigorous tendency in order to pursue an alien occupation.

The entire production is entertainingly written and confined to descriptive statements and philosophic discussion of certain energies and powerful mental forces within us; however, it contains very little of value to those interested in the psychoanalytic viewpoint, although the author speaks favorably of psychotherapy in general, and of psychoanalysis in particular.

Lewis