Produced by Roger Frank and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net CHILDREN'S WAYS BY THE SAME AUTHOR. _THE HUMAN MIND_: a Text-book of Psychology. 2 vols. 8vo, 21s. _OUTLINES OF PSYCHOLOGY._ Crown 8vo, 9s. _THE TEACHER'S HANDBOOK OF PSYCHOLOGY._ Crown 8vo, 5s. _STUDIES OF CHILDHOOD._ 8vo, 10s. 6d. LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO., LONDON, NEW YORK, AND BOMBAY. CHILDREN'S WAYS BEING SELECTIONS FROM THE AUTHOR'S _STUDIES OF CHILDHOOD_, WITH SOME ADDITIONAL MATTER BY JAMES SULLY, M.A., LL.D. GROTE PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY OF MIND AND LOGIC, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. 39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON AND BOMBAY 1897 ABERDEEN UNIVERSITY PRESS. PREFACE. The kindly welcome accorded by the press to my volume _Studies of Childhood_ has suggested to me that there was much in it which might be made attractive to a wider class of readers than that addressed in a psychological work. I have, accordingly, prepared the following selections, cutting out abstruse discussions, dropping as far as possible technical language, and adapting the style to the requirements of the general reader. In order to shorten the work the last two chapters--"Extracts from a Father's Diary" and "George Sand's Childhood"--have been omitted. The order of treatment has been altered somewhat, and a number of stories has been added. I hope that the result may succeed in recommending what has long been to myself one of the most delightful of subjects to many who would not be disposed to read a larger and more difficult work, and to draw on a few of these, at least, to a closer and more serious inspection of it. CONTENTS. PART I.--AT PLAY. CHAPTER PAGE I. THE REALM OF FANCY 1 THE TRANSFORMING WAND 2 FANCY'S RESTING-PLACES 6 IN STORYLAND 8 II. THE ENCHANTMENT OF PLAY 13 THE YOUNG PRETENDER 13 MYSTERIES OF DOLLDOM 18 SERIOUS SIDE OF PLAY 25 PART II.--AT WORK. III. ATTACKING OUR LANGUAGE 29 THE NAMER OF THINGS 30 THE SENTENCE-BUILDER 33 THE INTERPRETER OF WORDS 36 IV. THE SERIOUS SEARCHER 40 THE THOUGHTFUL OBSERVER 40 THE PERTINACIOUS QUESTIONER 44