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

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

Shakespeare’s thoughts on the young.

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

William Blake visits Allen Ginsberg.

J.M. Barrie’s tough critic.

Lorenzo de’ Medici’s eye for talent.

Joseph Conrad chooses his path.

The Apache leader Cochise takes a long walk.

A word of advice from Paul Cézanne’s father.

Rainer Maria Rilke plays dress up.

The famous friends of Bowdoin College.

William James feels Gertrude Stein’s pain

The Young Man and the Sea.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson remembers Lord Byron.

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Modest Mussorgsky make beautiful music.

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

Edison, Franklin, and Dickens cut class.

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

Luis Buñuel recalls Dalí’s cooking.

The bishop of London puts his foot down.

Voices In Time

Young and at Sea

1898 | London

Blaming the Parents

1943 | Washington, DC

Boys to Men

1900 | Albany

Going to the Devil

1487 | Germany

Godlike Independence

1841 | Concord, MA

Milk & Rosy Laughter

1861 | Mississippi River

The Proper Nutriment

1787 | England

Like Father, Like Son

c. 1640 | Oxford

Child’s Play

1878 | Grez-Sur-Long

Occupational Hazard

1817 | London

Little Monsters

1688 | France

Elizabeth Bishop Joins the Club

1918 | Worcester, MA

A Glimmer of Goodbye

1917 | Edinburgh

Difference of Opinion

1924 | Seattle

Paths to Glory

1876 | Nice

Coming to Maturity

1904 | Massachusetts

Five-Point Plan

1924 | Geneva

Life Lessons

1746 | Bath

Count Your Blessings

c. 885 | Kyūshū

A Time for Ruin

c. 1330 | Kyoto

Status Anxiety

c. 1883 | Günsbach

Golden Days

1890 | London

Report Card

c. 1890 | Dublin

Beauty and the Beast

c. 150 | Athens

Sweet and Cold

c. 1550 | Shanyin

Wrong Move

c. 600 BC | Greece

The Spelling Book

c. 1865 | Malden, WV

Trials of Strength

c. 625 BC | Sparta

Arranging an Introduction

c. 1100 | Germany

Nothing of Hell and Satan

1844 | Foleshill

Veneration of Youth

2014 | Northern California

Love at First Sight

8 | Tomis

Just Deserts

1845 | Germany

Human Capital

c. 1525 | Shangxi Province

Poor Stupid Me

1837 | London

Oral Fixation

1905 | Vienna

The Boys of New England

1845 | Quincy, MA

Postgraduate Education

c. 1771 | Loir-et-Cher

More Hateful than Vipers

1742 | Northampton, MA

Charts and Graphs

Toy Matrix

Expelled

Abandonment Issues

Losing It

Child Rulers

Forever Young

Hard-Knock Lives

Youth Groups

Early Education

Birth Order

Contributors

Conversations

Asclepiades & Robert Herrick

Richard Steele & Jane Addams

Thomas Babington Macaulay & W.H. Auden

John Locke & Malcolm X

Gerard Manley Hopkins & Doris Lessing

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