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STUDIES
OF CHILDHOOD
PREFACE.
The following Studies are not a complete treatiseon child-psychology, but merely deal with certainaspects of children’s minds which happen to havecome under my notice, and to have had a specialinterest for me. In preparing them I have tried tocombine with the needed measure of exactness amanner of presentation which should attract otherreaders than students of psychology, more particularlyparents and young teachers.
A part of these Studies has already appearedelsewhere. The Introductory Chapter was publishedin the Fortnightly Review for November, 1895.The substance of those from II. to VIII. has beenprinted in the Popular Science Monthly of NewYork. Portions of the “Extracts from a Father’sDiary” appeared in the form of two essays, one on“Babies and Science” in the Cornhill Magazine in1881, and the other on “Baby Linguistics” in theEnglish Illustrated Magazine in 1884. The originalform of these, involving a certain disguise—thoughhardly one of impenetrable thickness—has been retained.The greater part of the study on “GeorgeSand’s Childhood” was published as two articles inLongmans’ Magazine in 1889 and 1890.
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