Edgeworth, Maria, and Wordsworth, 174. _Edward Fane’s Rosebud_, 231. _Elegy_, Gray’s, 135, 136. Elijah, the prophet, 42; the incident of the boys and, 43. Elisha, 43. Elizabethan era, characteristics of, 113, 116. Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 217. English race, characteristics of the, exemplified in literature, 111-113. Eros, the myth of, 36-38. Erotion, 34. _Essay on Man, The_, 134. Euripides, in his view of children, 19; examples from, 20. _Evangeline_, 226. _Excursion, The_, 151, 152. Fables, Andersen’s stories distinguished from, 210, 211. _Faery Queen, The_, 114, 115. Fairy-tales, Andersen’s stories distinguished from, 202; the origin of, 203; fading out from modern literature, 204; upon the stage, 204, 205; the scientific fairy-tale, 206. Fénelon, 180. Fielding, Henry, in his _Amelia_, 135. Fitzgerald, Edward, 27. Flaxman, John, his illustration of Homer in outline, 12. French literature as regards childhood, 180-188. French Revolution, the, a sign of regeneration, 52; a day of judgment, 142; the name for an epoch, 143; synchronous with a revelation of childhood, 144; its connection with English literature, 162; the eruption of poverty in, 165. Froebel’s kindergarten system, 197, 198. _From my Arm Chair_, 220, 221. Gainsborough, Thomas, 141. Gascoigne, George, 117. _Gentle Boy, The_, 231. Germanic peoples, home-cultivating, 88. German literature and childhood, 188-198. Giotto, 84. Goethe, compared with Richter as regards memory of childhood, 194; his Mignon, 194; his indebtedness to the _Vicar of Wakefield_, 195; his _Sorrows of Werther_, 195; compared with Luther, 196. Goldsmith, Oliver, _avant-courier_ of Wordsworth, 3; the precursor of the poets of childhood, 137; his position in literature, 138; his _Vicar of Wakefield_, 138-140. _Goody Two Shoes_, 3. _Grandfather’s Chair_, 226. Gray, Thomas, 135-137. Gray, Thomas, borrowing possibly from Martial, 34. Greece, life in ancient, how illustrated, 7; silence of the child in the art of, 21; our relation to, 21; modern interpretations of, 27, 28; compared with Rome, 31; compared with Judæa, 42. Greenaway, Kate, 179. Greene, Robert, 117. Greenwell, Dora, her poem, _A Story by the Fire_, an example of pernicious literature, 222-225. Grimm, the brothers, 207. Hannah, the song of, 44, 47. Hawthorne, Nathaniel, the most abundant of American authors in his treatment of childhood, 225; his use of New England history, 226; his rendering of Greek myths, 226, 227; his observation of childhood, 228, 229; his relation to children, 229, 230; his apologue in _The Snow-Image_, 232; children in his romances, 232, 233; his Pearl in _The Scarlet Letter_, 233, 234; his Pansie in _The Dolliver Romance_, 234.