[218]. See Grosse, Die Anfänge der Kunst, pp. 106, 107.
[219]. The whole subject of the attitude of the child-mind towards dress and ornament is well dealt with by Perez, op. cit., chap. i.
[220]. Preyer places the first imitative movement in the fourth month (op. cit., cap. 12). Baldwin, however, dates the first unmistakable appearance in the case of his little girl in the ninth month (Mental Development, p. 131).
[221]. Virginibus Puerisque, ‘Child’s Play’.
[222]. The telling of stories to other children does not, I conceive, fall under my definition of play. It is child-art properly so called.
[223]. Virginibus Puerisque, ‘Child’s Play’.
[224]. According to Mr H. Rutgers Marshall art-activity takes its rise in the instinct to attract others (Pain, Pleasure, and Æsthetics).
[225]. Grosse, Anfänge der Kunst, p. 48.
[226]. The child’s feeling for climax shown in these is further illustrated in a charming story taken down by Miss Shinn, but unfortunately too long to quote here. See Overland Monthly, vol. xxiii., p. 19.
[227]. Perez deals with children’s literary compositions in the work already quoted (chap. ix.). Cf. Paola Lombroso, op. cit., cap. viii. and ix.