L.

• La Fontaine, J. de, 239.
• Lamb, Charles, 213.
• Language, linguistics of child;
  • early instinctive sounds, 134, 416;
  • transition to true speech, 138;
  • imitation of sounds, 142, 147, 417;
  • original inventions of language signs, 145;
  • transformation of our sounds, 148, 419;
  • process of learning to speak, 154, 160;
  • transposition of sounds of words, 155;
  • reduplication of sounds, 156;
  • assimilation of sounds, 156;
  • logical side of language, 160;
  • first use of general signs, 161;
  • spontaneous extension of verbal signs, 162, 420, 440;
  • designation of correlative ideas, 164, 468;
  • formation of compound names, 167;
  • other inventions, 168, 182, 455, 468;
  • first sentences, 170, 420;
  • inversion of order of words, 173;
  • mode of expressing negation, 174, 442;
  • early solecisms, 176, 440;
  • use of pronouns, ‘I,’ ‘you,’ 178, 444;
  • trying to get at our meanings, 183;
  • word-play, 187;
  • stickling for accuracy of words, 189, 466.
• Laughter. See Fun.
• Law, early struggles with, 267, 451;
  • devices for evading, 270;
  • instinctive respect for, 277, 434;
  • relation of custom to, 280;
  • child’s spontaneous extension of, 281;
  • his jealous insistence on, 285;
  • his voluntary submission to, 287.
• Law-giver, the wise, 290.
• Leg, child’s mode of drawing, 354;
  • representation of, in profile, 364;
  • treatment of animal’s, 375.
• Liberty, respect for, in moral training, 296;
  • child’s love of, 473.
• Lies, lying, viewed as characteristic of child, 251;
  • early forms of, 252, 432, 438;
  • permanent, 260;
  • contagiousness of, 261;
  • shrinking from, 261.
• Likeness. See Portrait and Similarity.
• Locke, John, 9, 34, 213, 218.
• Lombroso, P., 119 note, 166 note, 169, 255 note, 271 note.
• Loti, Pierre, 203.
• Lubbock, Sir John, 45.

M.

• Maillet, E., 173.
• Make-believe, as characteristic of child, 38, 434.
  • See Play and Acting.
• Man, first drawings of, 335;
  • first use of name, 425;
  • theory of creation of, 478.
• Marshall, H. Rutgers, 327 note.
• Maspero, G., 369 note.
• Materialism of child, 125, 507.
• Memory, of our early experiences, 15;
  • of words of story, 57, 466;
  • tenacity of children’s, 69;
  • illusion of, 258;
  • beginnings of permanent, 437, 481.
• Metaphor, in children’s use of language, 163, 175, 426, 442, 455, 483.
• Metathesis, 155.
• Minto, W., 164.
• Mirror-reflexions, as aiding in growth of self-knowledge, 112;
  • understanding of, 309.
• Moral depravity, doctrine of, 1, 229.
• Morality of child, question of, 228;
  • anti-social tendencies, 230, 473;
  • altruistic tendencies, 242;
  • lying, 251;
  • summary of moral traits, 265.
• Motet, A. A., 261 note.
• Mother, child’s love of, 243, 245, 498;
  • first recognition of, 404.
• Mouth, modes of drawing, 340;
  • carrying objects to, 401, 415;
  • use of, in turning key, 435.
• Movement, as sign of life, 96.
• Movements, muscular, in early attempts to draw, 333;
  • first aimless, 412;
  • early purposive, 412.
• Müller, F. Max, 147 note, 177.
• Multitude of things, child’s perplexity at, 84.
• Music, musical sounds, disconcerting effect of, 195, 409;
  • enjoyment of, 308, 492.
• Myth, child’s belief in, 59.
  • See Story.

N.

• Names, asking for, 77.
  • See Language.
• Natural phenomena, nature;
  • child’s ideas of, 90, 469, 482;
  • early æsthetic feeling for, 306.
• Neck, drawing of, 346.
• Negation, early verbal forms of, 174, 442;
  • early gesture for, 417.
• Neophobia, 221.
• Nervous system of child, imperfect development of, 61;
  • sounds as disturbing shock to, 195, 197.
• Noirée, L., 144 note.
• Nose, modes of drawing, 341, 357.
• Novelty, effect of, on children’s feeling, 199, 409, 410.
• Number, disregard of, in drawing, 352;
  • first ideas of, 456;
  • growth of clearer ideas of, 468, 484.

O.

• Obedience and disobedience of children, 267.
  • See Law.
• Observation, of children’s minds, 10;
  • characteristics of children’s, 66;
  • selectiveness of, 67;
  • defects of, in children, 393;
  • early examples of, 402, 452, 464, 465, 480.
• Onomatopoetic sounds, in children’s language, 143, 418.
• Origin of things, child’s inquiries into, 79, 85, 446, 483, 485;
  • his theories respecting, 107, 478.
• Ornament. See Adornment.

P.

• Passy, J., 339 note, 361, 368.
• Payn, James, 12 note, 185, 215 note.
• Peasants, association with, 504.
• Perez, Bernard, 106 note, 193 note, 195 note, 199 note, 232, 241, 252, 260 note, 298, 305 note, 306, 315, 320, 337, 341, 417 note.
• Perplexity, child’s feeling of, 83, 463.
• Personal identity, altered personality;
  • child’s notions respecting, 116, 445, 461.
• Personification. See Vivification.
• Pestalozzi, J. H., 47.
• Petrie, W. M. F., 310, 311 note, 366 note.
• Photographs, child’s feeling about, 461.
• Pictures, treatment of, by child, 50;
  • dislike of cruel, 250;
  • interpretation of, 309.
• Pitt-Rivers, A., General, 336, 340 note, 344, 355, 356, 359, 360, 366, 368, 371.
• Pity, for animals. See Sympathy.
• Play, and imaginative realisation, 35, 438, 494, 501;
  • imitative, 37;
  • as acting a part, 38;
  • part of surroundings in, 39;
  • solitary, 40;
  • with toys, 42;
  • illusion of, 47;
  • relation of, to art, 321.
• Please, wish to, as social tendency in child, 246;
  • as leading to exaggerated statement, 256.
• Pleasure and pain, instinctive expression of, 191;
  • action of, as motives, 415.
• Pollock, Sir F., 172, 173, 174, 175.
• Portrait, dog’s fear of, 220;
  • recognition of, 309.
  • See Photographs.
• Position, of pictures, child’s indifference to, 310;
  • his neglect of relative, in drawing, 338.
• Postgate, J. P., 149 note, 157 note.
• Power, love of, as element in childish cruelty, 240.
• Prayer, child’s manner of, 127, 130, 283, 477, 486.
• Prevarication. See Lies.
• Preyer, W., 19, 110, 113, 135, 136, 140, 141 note, 142, 143, 145, 148 note, 152, 153, 155, 159, 160 note, 162, 165, 169, 171 note, 172, 177 note, 179, 181, 182 note, 191, 195, 196, 198 note, 201, 202, 208, 210, 233, 285, 301, 333, 335 note, 414 note, 417 note.
• Priggishness of child, 286, 471.
• Profile, child’s manner of drawing, 356, 384, 392, 394.
• Pronouns, first use of, 178, 440.
• Proportion, defective perception of, 304;
  • want of, in early drawings, 339, 346, 381, 383.
• Psychology, importance of child for, 7.
• Punishment, child’s protests against, 276;
  • his insistence on undergoing, 288;
  • self-infliction of, 289.
• Punning, 187.
• Purpose, child’s projection of idea of, 81.
  • See Cause.

Q.

• Queyrat, F., 27.
• Questioning, children’s, date of first, 75;
  • significance of, 75;
  • various directions of, 76;
  • as to reasons and causes, 77, 447, 457;
  • rage of, 83, 446;
  • about origins, 85, 485;
  • metaphysical direction of, 87;
  • about nature’s processes, 87;
  • how to deal with, 89.
• Quinet, Edgar, 57.

R.

• Reaching out to objects. See Grasping.
• Realism, æsthetic, of child, 314.
• Reason, reasoning, the dawn of, 64;
  • early practical form of, 71;
  • seen in comparison, 71;
  • in discovering connexions of things, 73;
  • child’s manner of, 80, 93, 448, 458, 459, 469, 470;
  • growth of power of, 447, 459.
• Rebelliousness of child, 269, 452.
  • See Law.
• Recognition of objects, beginnings of, 68, 404;
  • of pictures, 309.
• Reduplication of sounds, 137, 156.
• Reflexions, early attention to, 405, 406.
  • See Mirror.
• Religion, child’s experience of, 506;
  • invention of, 510.
• Remorse after lying, 262;
  • after disobedience, 278;
  • nature of child’s, 477.
• Rhyme, child’s feeling for, 451.
• Rhythm, child’s feeling for, 308.
• Ricci, Corrado, 335, 360 note, 363 note, 369, 379 note, 380.
• Robinson, Dr. Louis, 17.
• Romancings. See Story.
• Romanes, G. J., 139 note, 164 note, 220.
• Rousseau, J. J., 1, 214, 218, 228, 272.
• Rules. See Law.
• Ruskin, J., 25, 32, 41, 241 note, 247.

S.

• Sand, George, 43, 109, 113, 223;
  • childhood of, 489.
• Savage, his fondness for toys, 45;
  • names of, 168;
  • æsthetic taste of, 306, 307;
  • adornment of, 318;
  • drawings of, 331 note, 332, 336, 337, 338, 340, 344, 345 note, 346 note, 348, 349, 352, 353, 355, 356, 358 note, 359, 361, 365, 366, 368, 371, 372, 373, 374 note, 377, 379, 381.
• Schoolcraft, H. R., 337 note, 344, 352 note, 369 note, 373 note, 374 note, 379.
• Schultze, F., 153.
• Science and childhood, 3.
• Scott, Sir Walter, 196.
• Sea, curiosity respecting, 83;
  • child’s first impression of, 202, 433.
• Secrets, secreting objects, 252.
• Self, child’s first ideas about, 109, 113, 457;
  • consciousness of, 114, 426;
  • way of speaking of, 178, 444.
• Self-feeling, as element in child’s anger, 235, 471.
• Self-restraint, germ of, 288, 436.
• Self-will in child, 451.
  • See Law.
• Semblance, child’s production of, 323;
  • his understanding of, 313.
• Sensation, attribution of, to objects, 449.
  • See Vivification.
• Sensibility, sensitiveness, of child, 191.
• Sentence, first formation of, 171, 420;
  • growth of, 430, 440.
• Sentence-words, 171.
• Shadows, child’s ideas of, 113;
  • his fear of, 206.
• Shinn, M. W., 18 note, 86, 129, 173, 196, 221 note, 239, 301, 302, 308, 309, 310, 311, 312.
• Shrinkage, ascribed by child to inanimate objects, 97;
  • child’s ideas of, in old age, 105.
• Shyness, child’s feeling of, 450.
• Sigismund, B., 4.
• Sight, sense of, first exercises of, 401, 404.
• Sign-making, as spontaneous impulses in child, 138, 431.
  • See Gesture and Language.
• Sikorski, Dr., 213.
• Similarity, child’s feeling for, 33;
  • play of, seen in extension of names, 162, 426;
  • early perception of, 72, 441.
• Sky, children’s ideas of distance of, 99;
  • their conception of form of, 100.
• Smile, first appearance of, 11, 401;
  • growth of, 407.
• Sociability, social feelings, germs of, in child, 242, 433.
  • See Sympathy.
• Soul, child’s idea of. See Animism.
• Sounds, as sign of life, 97;
  • early spontaneous, 134;
  • fear of, 194, 409.
  • See Articulation.
• Space, first perceptions of, 4.
• Speech. See Language.
• Spencer, Herbert, 125.
• Steinen, Karl von den, 331 note, 336 note, 338, 345, 348 note, 352 note, 355, 371, 372, 379.
• Stephen, Leslie, 307 note.
• Stevens, E. M., 81 note, 124, 212.
• Stevenson, R. L., 36, 39, 95 note, 206, 214, 225 note, 323, 326.
• Story, as stimulus to imagination, 54;
  • child’s respect for exact words of, 57;
  • acting out of, in play, 58;
  • early attempts at invention of, 59, 328, 453, 467, 494;
  • understanding of, 314.
• Strangers, child’s fear of, 201, 410.
• Substantive, first use of, 170.
  • See Language.
• Subterfuges of children, 262, 271, 451.
• Supernatural, the, child’s ideas of, 124;
  • fear of, 212, 491, 505.
  • See Fairies.
• Symbolism, in art representation, 325, 336, 383, 390.
• Sympathy, as qualification of the child-observer, 14;
  • with inanimate objects, 30;
  • lack of, in children, 236;
  • early forms of, 243, 408, 433;
  • beginnings of genuine, 244, 451, 474;
  • with animals, 247, 467, 475, 485;
  • with toys, etc., 249.
• Sweet, H., 155 note.

T.

• Taine, H., 141, 142.
• Teasing, as characteristic of child, 242.
• Tender emotion, 450, 461.
• Terrifying children, 226.
• Thackeray, W. M., 56.
• Theological ideas, 120.
  • See God.
• Thought of children, the process of, 64;
  • products of, 91;
  • tendency to system in, 91;
  • compared with thought of primitive man, 92;
  • modus operandi of, 93.
• Thunder, child’s ideas of, 101;
  • his fear of, 196, 433.
• Tiedemann, D., 140.
• Time, first notions of, 119, 429, 443, 455.
• Tolstoi, Count L., 192 note, 238 note.
• Touch, first sensations of, 400;
  • examination of things by, 403.
• Toys, imaginative transformation of, 42;
  • affection lavished on, 249.
  • See Doll and Play.
• Tracy, F., 148 note, 205 note, 405 note.
• Training, moral, wrong and right methods of, 291.
  • See Discipline.
• Trunk. See Body.
• Truth, child’s instinctive respect for, 264, 476.
  • See Lies.
• Tylor, E. B., 168 note.