[14]. W. H. Burnham, loc. cit., p. 212 f.
[15]. See her article, “The History of an Infancy,” Longman’s Magazine, Feb., 1890.
[16]. See the article by G. Stanley Hall, “The Contents of Children’s Minds,” Princeton Review. New Series, 1883. Cf. the same writer’s volume, The Contents of Children’s Minds on entering School, 1894.
[17]. Ibid., p. 265.
[18]. This has been well brought out by Professor Flournoy of Geneva in his volume Des Phénomènes de Synopsie (audition colorée), chap. ii.
[19]. Of course, as Preyer suggests, this drinking from an empty cup may at first be due to a want of discriminative perception.
[20]. M. Compayré seems to go too far in this direction when he talks of the child’s play with its doll as a charming comedy of maternity (L’Evolution intell. et morale de l’Enfant, p. 274).
[21]. For a good illustration of the disillusive effect of want of enthusiasm in one’s playmates, see Tolstoi, Childhood, Boyhood, Youth, part i., chap. viii.
[22]. Uninitiated, p. 10.
[23]. The Invisible Playmate, p. 33 ff.