370) reproduces some scenes from the life of a little girl of seven clearly illustrating the exact nature of the sexual manifestation at this age.
A kind of rudimentary sexual intercourse between children, as Bloch has remarked (_Beitraege_, etc., Bd.

ii, p.

254), occurs in many parts of the world, and is recognized by their elders as play.

This is, for instance, the case among the Bawenda of the Transvaal (_Zeitschrift fuer Ethnologie_, 1896, Heft 4, p.

364), and among the Papuans of Kaiser-Wilhelms-Land, with the approval of the parents, although much reticence is observed (id., 1889, Heft 1, p.