, the interest of the race in his
wonderful theories evidently being placed above financial returns by
Mr. Leland. Believing that the author's ideas and wishes would be well
carried out by the publication of an American edition printed in the
usual size type (without the expedient of "double-leading" unusually
large type in order to make a large volume), which allows of the book
being sold at a price within the reach of all, the publisher has
issued this edition along the lines indicated.

The present edition is identical with the original English edition
with the following exceptions:

(1) There has been omitted from this edition a long, tiresome chapter
contained in the original edition, entitled "On the Power of the Mind
to master disordered Feelings by sheer Determination. As Set forth by
Immanuel Kant in a letter to Hufeland," but which chapter had very
little to say about "the power of the mind," but very much indeed
about Hygiene, Dietetics, Sleep, Care of Oneself in Old Age,
Hypochondria, Work, Exercise, Eating and Drinking, Illness, etc.,
etc., from the point of view of the aged German metaphysician, which
while interesting enough in itself, and to some people, was manifestly
out of place in a book treating upon the development of Mental
Faculties by the Will, etc. We think that Mr. Leland's admirers will
find no fault with this omission.

(2) The word "Suggestion" has been substituted for the word
"Hypnotism" in several places in the original text, where the
former word was manifestly proper according to the present views of
psychologists, which views were not so clearly defined when the book
was written.

(3) The chapter headings of the original book have been shortened and
simplified in accordance with the American form.

(4) The title "The Mystic Will" has been substituted in place of that
used in the original edition, which was "Have You a Strong Will?" This
change was made for the reason that the original title did not give
one the correct idea of the nature of the book, but rather conveyed
the idea of an inquiry regarding the "iron-will," etc., which the
author evidently did not intend. The use of the Will, as taught in the
book by Mr. Leland, is not along the lines of "the iron-will," but is
rather in the nature of the employment of a mystic, mysterious, and
almost weird power of the Human Will, and the title of the present
edition is thought to more correctly represent the nature of the book,
an