4. Development of Speech in the Child 64 XVIII.--FIRST SOUNDS AND BEGINNINGS OF SPEECH IN THE CASE OF A CHILD OBSERVED DAILY DURING HIS FIRST THREE YEARS 99 XIX.--DEVELOPMENT OF THE FEELING OF SELF, THE "I"-FEELING 189 XX.--SUMMARY OF RESULTS 208 APPENDIXES. APPENDIX A.--Comparative Observations concerning the Acquirement of Speech by German and Foreign Children 221 (_a_) Diary of the Child of the Baroness von Taube, of Esthonia, 261. APPENDIX B.--Notes concerning Lacking, Defective, and Arrested Mental Development in the First Years of Life 272 APPENDIX C.--Reports concerning the Process of Learning to See, on the part of Persons born blind, but acquiring Sight through Surgical Treatment. Also some Critical Remarks 286 I. The Chesselden Case, 286. II, III. The Ware Cases, 288. IV, V. The Home Cases, 296. VI. The Wardrop Case, 300. VII. The Franz Case, 306. Final Remarks, 312. A CONSPECTUS OF THE OBSERVATIONS OF PROFESSOR PREYER ON THE MIND OF THE CHILD. ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY BY MONTHS, FOR THE CONVENIENCE OF THOSE WHO WISH TO VERIFY THESE OBSERVATIONS, OR TO USE THEM AS A GUIDE IN THEIR OWN INVESTIGATIONS. BY H. W. BROWN. FIRST MONTH. SENSES.[A] SIGHT.--_Light._--Five minutes after birth, slight sensibility to light (2). Second day, sensitiveness to light of candle (3). Sixth and seventh days, pleasure in moderately bright daylight (3, 4). Ninth and tenth days, sensitiveness greater at waking than soon afterward (3). Sleeping babes close the eyes more tightly when light falls on the eyes (4). Eleventh day, pleasure in light of candle and in bright object (3). _Discrimination of Colors._--Twenty-third day, pleasure in sight of rose-colored curtain (6). _Movements of Eyelids._--First to eleventh day, shutting and opening of eyes (22). Irregular movements (23). Lid closed at touch of lashes from sixth day on (26). Twenty-fifth day, eyes opened and shut when child is spoken to or nodded to (30). Pleasure shown by opening eyes wide, displeasure by shutting them tightly; third, sixteenth, and twenty-first days (31). _Movements of Eyes._--First day, to right and left (35). Tenth day, non-cooerdinated movements (36). Third week, irregularity prevails (37). _Direction of Look._--Eleventh day, to father's face and to the light (43). Upward look (43). Twenty-third day, active looking begins (44). Twenty-third and thirtieth days, a moving light followed (44). _Seeing Near and Distant Objects._--Twelfth day, hypermetropia (60).