Excerpt from Girl and Woman: A Book for Mothers and Daughters WE have recently awakened to the fact that the most important period in life as regards the forma tion of character, instead of being the first decade as always supposed, is really the years between child hood and maturity. But although the attention of parents and guardians is now focussed upon thissea son as one of supreme importance, especially as re gards girls, the sources of information concerning it are few and far between. Aside from Dr. Stan ley Hall's monumental work, the size and extent of which somewhat restrict its field of usefulness, all information upon the subject of girlhood is sparsely scattered over a wide territory of periodical litera ture, much of it being contained in psychological and pedagogical journals or similar places remote from the main-traveled road familiar to the general reader. Moreover, these articles are commonly written by specialists in language which requires some interpre tation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.