The Brain and Its Mechanism. The Rede Lecture Delivered Before the University of Cambridge, 5 December, 1933. By Sir Charles Sherrington, O.M., G.B.E, F.R.S., Waynflete Professor of Physiology in the University of Oxford. Cambridge: At The University Press. New York:  The Macmillian Co., 1933. Pp.  35.

It is unnecessary to say that Sir Charles is the outstanding exponent of the experimental study of the functions of the brain of the day, and his book on the Integrative Action of the Nervous System remains a classic.

In the present lecture there are two outstanding points of view. The first is that the function of the brain is primarily for the purpose of bringing about action through the muscular system and thus helping the organism to conquer the outside world. He also says that its work is hardly less significant in effecting the action of the external world upon the organism, while the latter part of the lecture is made up with an expression of the mystery that involves the relationship existing between the brain and the mind. To the reviewer it seems that the body-mind problem has become much less insistent of late. Other interests have taken its place and to the extent that they have this particular problem has slipped out of the picture, and it is quite remarkable how little it is missed. So many things seem to go that path.

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