Painting of three young children lying in a grassy field.

Arcadia, by Thomas Eakins, c. 1883. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of Miss Adelaide Milton de Groot (1876–1967), 1967.

Youth

Volume VII, Number 3 | summer 2014

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Fortune’s Child

Lewis H. Lapham

The Long Goodbye

Michael Wood

Map

Rites of Passage

Miscellany

William Blake visits Allen Ginsberg.

Rainer Maria Rilke plays dress up.

Joseph Conrad chooses his path.

J.M. Barrie’s tough critic.

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz takes a vow of abstinence.

Edison, Franklin, and Dickens cut class.

William James feels Gertrude Stein’s pain

Shakespeare’s thoughts on the young.

A word of advice from Paul Cézanne’s father.

Edward Gibbon and Jean-Jacques Rousseau on the laws of nature.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson remembers Lord Byron.

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Modest Mussorgsky make beautiful music.

Luis Buñuel recalls Dalí’s cooking.

“Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.”

The Apache leader Cochise takes a long walk.

Lorenzo de’ Medici’s eye for talent.

The famous friends of Bowdoin College.

The Young Man and the Sea.

Graham Greene discusses Shirley Temple’s “secret” appeal.

The bishop of London puts his foot down.

Voices In Time

Nothing of Hell and Satan

1844 | Foleshill

The Spelling Book

c. 1865 | Malden, WV

Godlike Independence

1841 | Concord, MA

Like Father, Like Son

c. 1640 | Oxford

Beauty and the Beast

c. 150 | Athens

Blaming the Parents

1943 | Washington, DC

Sweet and Cold

c. 1550 | Shanyin

A Time for Ruin

c. 1330 | Kyoto

Postgraduate Education

c. 1771 | Loir-et-Cher

Child’s Play

1878 | Grez-Sur-Long

Count Your Blessings

c. 885 | Kyūshū

Human Capital

c. 1525 | Shangxi Province

Wrong Move

c. 600 BC | Greece

The Boys of New England

1845 | Quincy, MA

Going to the Devil

1487 | Germany

Milk & Rosy Laughter

1861 | Mississippi River

Little Monsters

1688 | France

The Proper Nutriment

1787 | England

Trials of Strength

c. 625 BC | Sparta

Arranging an Introduction

c. 1100 | Germany

A Glimmer of Goodbye

1917 | Edinburgh

Just Deserts

1845 | Germany

Difference of Opinion

1924 | Seattle

Veneration of Youth

2014 | Northern California

Young and at Sea

1898 | London

Poor Stupid Me

1837 | London

Five-Point Plan

1924 | Geneva

Status Anxiety

c. 1883 | Günsbach

Boys to Men

1900 | Albany

Golden Days

1890 | London

Love at First Sight

8 | Tomis

Paths to Glory

1876 | Nice

More Hateful than Vipers

1742 | Northampton, MA

Report Card

c. 1890 | Dublin

Life Lessons

1746 | Bath

Occupational Hazard

1817 | London

Coming to Maturity

1904 | Massachusetts

Elizabeth Bishop Joins the Club

1918 | Worcester, MA

Oral Fixation

1905 | Vienna

Charts and Graphs

Child Rulers

Hard-Knock Lives

Youth Groups

Losing It

Early Education

Expelled

Birth Order

Abandonment Issues

Toy Matrix

Forever Young

Contributors

Conversations

John Locke & Malcolm X

Richard Steele & Jane Addams

Gerard Manley Hopkins & Doris Lessing

Asclepiades & Robert Herrick

Thomas Babington Macaulay & W.H. Auden

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