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 |
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THE BIOGRAPHY OF A BABY
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BABY BIOGRAPHIES IN GENERAL
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