Part 14

Hebrew life, in its influence on modern thought, 39-41; the child in, 46, 47; its transformation into Christianity, 47, 48, 53.

Hector parting with Andromache, 11, 12; face to face with Ajax, 14; comforts his wife, 16, 17.

Hemans, Felicia, 222.

Hen and chickens, in the Bible and Shakespeare, 122.

Herakles, 36.

Hermes, 36.

_Hiawatha_, 221.

Hilarion, 67.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 218.

Holy Family, the child in the, 83; character of the early type of the, 83; emblematic of domesticity, 86, 87.

Homer, authenticity of the legend of, supposed to be proved by Schliemann, 6; a better preserver of Greek womanhood than antiquaries, 7; the value of his similes, 7, 8; passages in illustration of his indirect reference to childhood, 8-11; the elemental character of, 12; the peril of commenting on, 13; the nurse in, 14; his view of childhood, 15; compared with that of the tragedians, 16-18; with that of Virgil, 31, 32.

Hosea, quoted, 44.

_House of the Seven Gables, The_, 232, 233.

Hubert, 120.

Hugh of Lincoln, 108.

Hugo, Victor, 187.

_Iliad_, the swarm of bees in the, 8; the passage describing the brushing away of a fly, 9; the ass belabored by a pack of boys, 9; Achilles chiding Patroclos, 10; Hector parting with Andromache, 11, 12; statuesque scenes in, 12.

_Imaginary Conversations_, quoted, 153.

Imagination, the, abnormal activity of, in early Christianity, 54; the direction of its new force, 56, 57.

_Intimations of Immortality_, 154, 156, 157.

Irving, Washington, 217.

Isaiah, quoted, 45.

Ishmael, 42.

Ismene, 18.

Jacob, the two wives of, 44.

James, Henry, alluded to, 236.

Jeffrey, Francis, 169.

Jerusalem, the entry into, 49, 52.

John the Baptist, 81.

Jonson, Ben, 37.

Jonson, Ben, _Venus’ Runaway_ of, 116.

Jowett, Benjamin, translation by, 22-26.

Juvenal, 35, 227.

Kenwulf of Wessex, 68.

Kindergarten, the, fortified by reference to Plato, 24; in connection with politics, 197, 198.

_King John_, 119, 120.

Kriss Kringle, 189.

La Farge, John, 237.

_L’Allegro_, 127.

Lamartine, Alphonse de, 184-186.

Lamb, Charles, on Mrs. Barbauld’s work, 176, 177; his and his sister’s books, 177.

Lambdin, George C., 237.

_Lamkin_, the ballad of, 107, 108.

Landor, Walter Savage, remark of, on children, 153.

Laokoön, 21.

_Laws_, Plato’s, cited, 22, 24, 25.

_Legends of the Madonna_, 89.

Leslie, C. R., on Raphael’s children, 100.

Lindsay, Lord, quoted, 88.

_Lines on the Receipt of my Mother’s Picture_, 141, 142.

Literature for children in the United States, 235, 236; some of its tendencies, 239, 240; measures for its enrichment, 240.

Literature, the source of knowledge, 7; of Christendom, the exposition of the conception of the Christ, 50; inaction in, 54; fallacy in the study of the development of, 104; its bounds enlarged, 163.

_Little Annie’s Ramble_, 231.

_Little Daffydowndilly_, 231.

_Little Girl’s Lament, The_, 222.

_Little People of the Snow_, 217.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, childhood in the writings of, 219-221.

Love, the figure of, in classic and modern art, 37.

Lowell, James Russell, 217.

Loyola, 91.

Luca della Robbia, the children of, 101.

Lucretius, 34, 35.

_Lucy Gray_, 3, 148.

Luther, Martin, an exponent of German character, 190; his treatment of childhood, 190.

_Macbeth_, 121, 123.

Madonna, development of the, 84-87; treatment of by Raphael, 92-98; a domestic subject, 98.

_Magnificat, The_, 44, 47.

_Man of Law’s Tale, The_, 110.

Marcius, 118.

Martial, 34.

Martin, Theodore, translation by, 33.

Mary, the Virgin, legends concerning, in the Apocryphal Gospels, 58-60; her childhood, 65; her appearance in early art, 83; her motherhood, 84; her relation to Jesus, 85.

_May Queen, The_, 222.

_Medea, The_, cited, 19.

_Menaphon_, 117.

Mercurius, 36.

_Messiah_, Pope’s, 133, 134.

Michelet, 186.

_Midsummer Night’s Dream_, 124.

Millais, John Everett, 179.

Milton, John, quoted, 46; the absence of childhood in, 127, 128; compared with Bunyan, 129; with Pope, 133.

Moses, 42.

Moth, Shakespeare’s, 118.

Mozley, T. B., quoted, 190, 191, 235.

Musset, Alfred de, 186.

_My Lost Youth_, 221.

Netherland family life, pictured in the life of our Lord, 89-92.

New Testament, childhood in the, 47-52.

Nicodemus, 50.

Niebuhr, B. G., 28.

Norton, Charles Eliot, translation by, 78.

_Note-Books_, Hawthorne’s, 228, 229.

Nurse, the, in Greek life, 14; in the _Odyssey_, 14, 15.

_Ode on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity_, 127, 133.

Odysseus and his nurse, 15.

_Odyssey_, memorable incidents in the, 14, 15.

_Œdipus Tyrannus_ contrasted with the _Iliad_, 16-18.

Old Testament, childhood in the, 42-46.

_Our Old Home_, 230.

Overbeck, 88, 199-201.

Palmer, George Herbert, as a translator of Homer, 28.

Parkman, Francis, 226.

Pater, Walter, quoted, 79.

Patient Griselda, 111.

_Paul and Virginia_, representative of innocent childhood, 180; an escape from the world, 181; an attempt at the preservation of childhood, 183.

_Pet Lamb, The_, 149.

Pheidias, 26, 28.

_Pied Piper, The_, 237.

_Pilgrim’s Progress, The_, 130-133.

Plato, references of, to childhood, 22-26; compared with artists, 26; can be read by children, 242.

Pope, Alexander, 133; compared with Milton, 133, 134; with Shakespeare, 134.

_Prelude, The_, 151.

_Princess, The_, 170.

Puritanism, the attitude of, toward childhood, 128, 129.

_Queen’s Marie_, the ballad of the, 106.

Raphael, an exponent of the idea of his time, 92; the Madonnas of, 92; in the Berlin Museum, 93; Casa Connestabile, 93; del Cardellino, 93; at St. Petersburg, 93; della Casa Tempi, 94; at Bridgewater, 95; del Passegio, 96; San Sisto, 97, 98; treatment by, of Amor, 99; his children, 100.

_Reaper and the Flowers, The_, 220, 222.

Renaissance, the spirit of the, in Raphael’s work, 98; childhood in its relation to the, 102.

_Republic_, Plato’s, cited, 23.

_Resignation_, 220.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 141, 142.

Richter, Jean Paul Friedrich, autobiography of, 191; early birth of consciousness in, 192; compared with Goethe, 194.

_Riverside Magazine for Young People, The_, 237, 238.

Roman literature, childhood in, 31-38.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques, 180, 182, 184.

Ruskin, John, 242.

Samuel, 42.

_Sanford and Merton_, 3.

Sarah, the laugh of, 44.

_Scarlet Letter, The_, 233, 234.

Schliemann, Dr., 6.

School, great literature in, 242.

_Sella_, 217.

Sellar, John Y., quoted, 35.

Sentiment, French and German, as seen by the English and American, 188.

_Shadow, A_, 220.

Shakespeare, childhood in, 117; limitations of the exhibition, 117, 118; his Moth, 118; his _Coriolanus_, 118, 119; his _King John_, 119, 120; his _Titus Andronicus_, 120, 121; his _Macbeth_, 121; his _Richard III._, 122; random passages in, relating to childhood, 123-125; reasons for the scanty reference, 125, 126; compared with Pope, 134.

Shunamite, the, 43.

Simeon, 47.

Simonides, 20; quoted, 30.

_Sketches of the History of Christian Art_, 88.

Smith, Goldwin, translation by, 20.

_Snow-Bound_, 218.

_Snow-Image, The_, 232.

Solitude, the, of childhood, 160-162.

_Songs of Innocence_, 164.

Sophocles, the _Œdipus Tyrannus_ of, 16.

Sparrows, the story of the miraculous, 61, 62.

_Spectator, The_, a writer in, quoted, 38.

Spenser, Edmund, his _Faery Queen_, 114, 115.

Statius, 33.

_Story by the Fire, A_, an example of what a poem for a child should not be, 222-225.

Supernaturalism in ancient literature, 35, 36.

_Suspiria de Profundis_, 158-162.

Swedenborg, a saying of, 142.

Symonds, John Addington, translation by, 20.

S. Bernard, 76, 77.

S. Catherine, 65.

S. Christina, 70.

S. Elizabeth of Hungary, 65, 66.

S. Francis of Assisi, 71, 72.

S. Genevieve, 66.

S. Gregory Nazianzen, 66.

S. John Chrysostom, 66.

S. Kenelm, 68-70.

St. Pierre, Bernardin, 180-183.

Tanagra figurines, 28.

_Tanglewood Tales_, 226.

Tennyson, Alfred, makes a heroine of the babe, 170; his _May Queen_, 222.

Thompson, D’Arcy W., translation by, 31, 33.

Thoreau, Henry David, 217.

Thorwaldsen, 37, 201.

_Tirocinium_, 140.

_Titus Andronicus_, 120, 121.

_To a Child_, 220.

Translations, the great, of the Elizabethan era, 116.

_Twice-Told Tales_, 231.

_Two Gentlemen of Verona_, 124.

_Ugly Duckling, The_, 213; compared with _The Snow-Image_, 232.

Ugolino, Count, 76.

_Vicar of Wakefield, The_, 3, 137-140, 142.

_Village Blacksmith, The_, 221.

Virgil, contrasted with Homer, 31, 32; his treatment of childhood, 32.

Virgilia, 118, 119.

Volumnia, 118, 119.

_We are Seven_, 168-224.

_Weariness_, 220, 221.

Whittier, John Greenleaf, childhood in the writings of, 218, 219.

_Wonder-Book_, Hawthorne’s, 226, 227, 232.

Wordsworth, William, the creator of Alice Fell and Lucy Gray, 3; quoted, 3; the ridicule of his _Lyrical Ballads_, 145; his defensive Preface, 145-147; his apology for _Alice Fell_, 147, 148; his poem of _Lucy Gray_, 148, 149; his poem of _The Pet Lamb_, 149, 150; his treatment of incidents of childhood, 150; the first to treat the child as an individual, 151; his draft on his own experience, 152; his poetic interpretation of childhood, 153-156; his ode, _Intimations of Immortality_, 156, 157; his treatment of death, 168; his _We are Seven_ contrasted with _A Story of the Fire_, 224, 225.

_Wreck of the Hesperus, The_, 221.

Zarephath, the widow of, 42.

Zechariah, quoted, 45.