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

Fortune’s Child

Lewis H. Lapham

The Long Goodbye

Michael Wood

Map

Miscellany

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

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

Contributors

Conversations

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