Hebrew life, in its influence on modern thought, 39-41; the child in, 46, 47; its transformation into Christianity, 47, 48, 53. Hector parting with Andromache, 11, 12; face to face with Ajax, 14; comforts his wife, 16, 17. Hemans, Felicia, 222. Hen and chickens, in the Bible and Shakespeare, 122. Herakles, 36. Hermes, 36. _Hiawatha_, 221. Hilarion, 67. Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 218. Holy Family, the child in the, 83; character of the early type of the, 83; emblematic of domesticity, 86, 87. Homer, authenticity of the legend of, supposed to be proved by Schliemann, 6; a better preserver of Greek womanhood than antiquaries, 7; the value of his similes, 7, 8; passages in illustration of his indirect reference to childhood, 8-11; the elemental character of, 12; the peril of commenting on, 13; the nurse in, 14; his view of childhood, 15; compared with that of the tragedians, 16-18; with that of Virgil, 31, 32. Hosea, quoted, 44. _House of the Seven Gables, The_, 232, 233. Hubert, 120. Hugh of Lincoln, 108. Hugo, Victor, 187. _Iliad_, the swarm of bees in the, 8; the passage describing the brushing away of a fly, 9; the ass belabored by a pack of boys, 9; Achilles chiding Patroclos, 10; Hector parting with Andromache, 11, 12; statuesque scenes in, 12. _Imaginary Conversations_, quoted, 153. Imagination, the, abnormal activity of, in early Christianity, 54; the direction of its new force, 56, 57. _Intimations of Immortality_, 154, 156, 157. Irving, Washington, 217. Isaiah, quoted, 45. Ishmael, 42. Ismene, 18. Jacob, the two wives of, 44. James, Henry, alluded to, 236. Jeffrey, Francis, 169. Jerusalem, the entry into, 49, 52. John the Baptist, 81. Jonson, Ben, 37. Jonson, Ben, _Venus’ Runaway_ of, 116. Jowett, Benjamin, translation by, 22-26. Juvenal, 35, 227. Kenwulf of Wessex, 68. Kindergarten, the, fortified by reference to Plato, 24; in connection with politics, 197, 198. _King John_, 119, 120. Kriss Kringle, 189. La Farge, John, 237. _L’Allegro_, 127. Lamartine, Alphonse de, 184-186. Lamb, Charles, on Mrs. Barbauld’s work, 176, 177; his and his sister’s books, 177. Lambdin, George C., 237. _Lamkin_, the ballad of, 107, 108. Landor, Walter Savage, remark of, on children, 153. Laokoön, 21. _Laws_, Plato’s, cited, 22, 24, 25. _Legends of the Madonna_, 89. Leslie, C. R., on Raphael’s children, 100. Lindsay, Lord, quoted, 88. _Lines on the Receipt of my Mother’s Picture_, 141, 142. Literature for children in the United States, 235, 236; some of its tendencies, 239, 240; measures for its enrichment, 240.