The biography of a baby

by Milicent Washburn Shinn

THE BIOGRAPHY
OF
A BABY

BY
MILICENT WASHBURN SHINN

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge

COPYRIGHT, 1900, BY MILICENT WASHBURN SHINN
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
PRINTED
IN THE U. S. A.

CONTENTS

PAGE
I.	Baby Biographies in General	[ 1]
II.	The New-born Baby: Structure and Movements	[ 20]
III.	The New-born Baby: Sensations and Consciousness	[ 39]
IV.	The Earliest Developments	[ 58]
V.	Beginnings of Emotion and Progress inSense Powers	[ 78]
VI.	Progress toward Grasping	[ 99]
VII.	She learns to grasp, and discovers theWorld of Things	[ 118]
VIII.	The Era of Handling Things	[ 141]
IX.	The Dawn of Intelligence	[ 161]
X.	Beginnings of Locomotion	[ 182]
XI.	Creeping and Standing	[ 203]
XII.	Rudiments of Speech; Climbing and Progresstoward Walking	[ 224]
XIII.	Walking Alone; Developing Intelligence	[ 238]

THE BIOGRAPHY OF A BABY