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

Luis Buñuel recalls Dalí’s cooking.

J.M. Barrie’s tough critic.

The Apache leader Cochise takes a long walk.

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

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.

Lorenzo de’ Medici’s eye for talent.

Edison, Franklin, and Dickens cut class.

Joseph Conrad chooses his path.

Rainer Maria Rilke plays dress up.

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

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

The famous friends of Bowdoin College.

The Young Man and the Sea.

William Blake visits Allen Ginsberg.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson remembers Lord Byron.

The bishop of London puts his foot down.

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Modest Mussorgsky make beautiful music.

William James feels Gertrude Stein’s pain

Voices In Time

Life Lessons

1746 | Bath

Report Card

c. 1890 | Dublin

Godlike Independence

1841 | Concord, MA

Oral Fixation

1905 | Vienna

Wrong Move

c. 600 BC | Greece

Veneration of Youth

2014 | Northern California

Postgraduate Education

c. 1771 | Loir-et-Cher

Elizabeth Bishop Joins the Club

1918 | Worcester, MA

Status Anxiety

c. 1883 | Günsbach

Love at First Sight

8 | Tomis

Paths to Glory

1876 | Nice

The Spelling Book

c. 1865 | Malden, WV

Coming to Maturity

1904 | Massachusetts

Just Deserts

1845 | Germany

Trials of Strength

c. 625 BC | Sparta

Sweet and Cold

c. 1550 | Shanyin

Difference of Opinion

1924 | Seattle

Child’s Play

1878 | Grez-Sur-Long

Occupational Hazard

1817 | London

Arranging an Introduction

c. 1100 | Germany

The Proper Nutriment

1787 | England

Golden Days

1890 | London

Beauty and the Beast

c. 150 | Athens

Human Capital

c. 1525 | Shangxi Province

Five-Point Plan

1924 | Geneva

A Glimmer of Goodbye

1917 | Edinburgh

Like Father, Like Son

c. 1640 | Oxford

Milk & Rosy Laughter

1861 | Mississippi River

Boys to Men

1900 | Albany

Little Monsters

1688 | France

Going to the Devil

1487 | Germany

More Hateful than Vipers

1742 | Northampton, MA

The Boys of New England

1845 | Quincy, MA

Poor Stupid Me

1837 | London

Count Your Blessings

c. 885 | Kyūshū

Nothing of Hell and Satan

1844 | Foleshill

Young and at Sea

1898 | London

Blaming the Parents

1943 | Washington, DC

A Time for Ruin

c. 1330 | Kyoto

Charts and Graphs

Hard-Knock Lives

Toy Matrix

Birth Order

Forever Young

Youth Groups

Losing It

Child Rulers

Early Education

Abandonment Issues

Expelled

Contributors

Conversations

John Locke & Malcolm X

Richard Steele & Jane Addams

Thomas Babington Macaulay & W.H. Auden

Asclepiades & Robert Herrick

Gerard Manley Hopkins & Doris Lessing

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