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

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

The Apache leader Cochise takes a long walk.

J.M. Barrie’s tough critic.

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

Alfred, Lord Tennyson remembers Lord Byron.

The famous friends of Bowdoin College.

Luis Buñuel recalls Dalí’s cooking.

William James feels Gertrude Stein’s pain

Edison, Franklin, and Dickens cut class.

The Young Man and the Sea.

Joseph Conrad chooses his path.

The bishop of London puts his foot down.

A word of advice from Paul Cézanne’s father.

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Modest Mussorgsky make beautiful music.

Shakespeare’s thoughts on the young.

Rainer Maria Rilke plays dress up.

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

William Blake visits Allen Ginsberg.

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

Lorenzo de’ Medici’s eye for talent.

Voices In Time

Like Father, Like Son

c. 1640 | Oxford

Report Card

c. 1890 | Dublin

Nothing of Hell and Satan

1844 | Foleshill

The Boys of New England

1845 | Quincy, MA

Beauty and the Beast

c. 150 | Athens

Veneration of Youth

2014 | Northern California

Milk & Rosy Laughter

1861 | Mississippi River

Young and at Sea

1898 | London

Elizabeth Bishop Joins the Club

1918 | Worcester, MA

Five-Point Plan

1924 | Geneva

Human Capital

c. 1525 | Shangxi Province

Occupational Hazard

1817 | London

More Hateful than Vipers

1742 | Northampton, MA

Status Anxiety

c. 1883 | Günsbach

Postgraduate Education

c. 1771 | Loir-et-Cher

Little Monsters

1688 | France

The Spelling Book

c. 1865 | Malden, WV

Difference of Opinion

1924 | Seattle

Wrong Move

c. 600 BC | Greece

Going to the Devil

1487 | Germany

A Glimmer of Goodbye

1917 | Edinburgh

Child’s Play

1878 | Grez-Sur-Long

A Time for Ruin

c. 1330 | Kyoto

Life Lessons

1746 | Bath

Blaming the Parents

1943 | Washington, DC

Coming to Maturity

1904 | Massachusetts

Poor Stupid Me

1837 | London

The Proper Nutriment

1787 | England

Godlike Independence

1841 | Concord, MA

Arranging an Introduction

c. 1100 | Germany

Oral Fixation

1905 | Vienna

Paths to Glory

1876 | Nice

Count Your Blessings

c. 885 | Kyūshū

Boys to Men

1900 | Albany

Trials of Strength

c. 625 BC | Sparta

Love at First Sight

8 | Tomis

Just Deserts

1845 | Germany

Sweet and Cold

c. 1550 | Shanyin

Golden Days

1890 | London

Charts and Graphs

Early Education

Forever Young

Losing It

Abandonment Issues

Toy Matrix

Expelled

Birth Order

Child Rulers

Hard-Knock Lives

Youth Groups

Contributors

Conversations

Asclepiades & Robert Herrick

Richard Steele & Jane Addams

Thomas Babington Macaulay & W.H. Auden

Gerard Manley Hopkins & Doris Lessing

John Locke & Malcolm X

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