Chapter 12 FIRST PENCILLINGS.

A child's first attempts at drawing are not art proper, but a kind of play. As he sits at the table and covers a sheet of paper with line-scribble he is wholly self-centred, "amusing himself," as we say, and caring nothing about the production of a thing of ?sthetic value.

Yet even in this infantile scribbling we see a tendency towards art-produ