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The History 

 of the Child in 

 Human Progress 



By George Henry Payne 



8°. Many Illustrations 



The treatment received by children in the 

 past was, until Mr. Payne started on his 

 work, left out of consideration ; children of the 

 present have been studied and written about 

 as inefficiently as might be our law, were no 

 consideration given to the past experience of 

 men wherein its traditions are rooted. 



Having established the status of the child 

 in what is wrongly called "the prehistoric 

 period" by showing its status among races 

 now on earth but "co-eval with the neolithic 

 age," he shows with great clearness the suc- 

 cessive steps which have been taken since 

 the days of Tyre to the founding of child- 

 welfare societies during the present genera- 

 tion. The result is a faultless background 

 for all literature on child-welfare. 



G. P. Putnam's Sons 



New York -::- London 



