INFANT PSYCHOLOGY.
[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] Sre.,—As your correspondent Mrs. Reid appears to be one of those rare souls who are keenly interested in, and thirst for information about, other people's babies, she may perhaps like to study (if she ie not already familiar with it) the minute and elaborate, and at the same time very readable, record kept by a distinguished educationist, the late Mr. Quick, of the mental and moral development of his two children, Dora and Oliver, from their birth to their seventh and fourth years respectively : see the Life and Remains of the Rev. R. H. Quick, edited by F. Stoic, 1899, pp. 303 to 348. Mr. Storr tells ns that this chronicle does not pretend to rival in scientific accuracy " the child-studies of Perez or Preyer "; but I expect it will be quite scientific enough for most people. Quick was remarkably free from the pedantry which is so repulsive in many writers on
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