Literature, the source of knowledge, 7; of Christendom, the exposition of the conception of the Christ, 50; inaction in, 54; fallacy in the study of the development of, 104; its bounds enlarged, 163. _Little Annie’s Ramble_, 231. _Little Daffydowndilly_, 231. _Little Girl’s Lament, The_, 222. _Little People of the Snow_, 217. Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, childhood in the writings of, 219-221. Love, the figure of, in classic and modern art, 37. Lowell, James Russell, 217. Loyola, 91. Luca della Robbia, the children of, 101. Lucretius, 34, 35. _Lucy Gray_, 3, 148. Luther, Martin, an exponent of German character, 190; his treatment of childhood, 190. _Macbeth_, 121, 123. Madonna, development of the, 84-87; treatment of by Raphael, 92-98; a domestic subject, 98. _Magnificat, The_, 44, 47. _Man of Law’s Tale, The_, 110. Marcius, 118. Martial, 34. Martin, Theodore, translation by, 33. Mary, the Virgin, legends concerning, in the Apocryphal Gospels, 58-60; her childhood, 65; her appearance in early art, 83; her motherhood, 84; her relation to Jesus, 85. _May Queen, The_, 222. _Medea, The_, cited, 19. _Menaphon_, 117. Mercurius, 36. _Messiah_, Pope’s, 133, 134. Michelet, 186. _Midsummer Night’s Dream_, 124. Millais, John Everett, 179. Milton, John, quoted, 46; the absence of childhood in, 127, 128; compared with Bunyan, 129; with Pope, 133. Moses, 42. Moth, Shakespeare’s, 118. Mozley, T. B., quoted, 190, 191, 235. Musset, Alfred de, 186. _My Lost Youth_, 221. Netherland family life, pictured in the life of our Lord, 89-92. New Testament, childhood in the, 47-52. Nicodemus, 50. Niebuhr, B. G., 28. Norton, Charles Eliot, translation by, 78. _Note-Books_, Hawthorne’s, 228, 229. Nurse, the, in Greek life, 14; in the _Odyssey_, 14, 15. _Ode on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity_, 127, 133. Odysseus and his nurse, 15. _Odyssey_, memorable incidents in the, 14, 15. _Œdipus Tyrannus_ contrasted with the _Iliad_, 16-18. Old Testament, childhood in the, 42-46. _Our Old Home_, 230. Overbeck, 88, 199-201. Palmer, George Herbert, as a translator of Homer, 28. Parkman, Francis, 226. Pater, Walter, quoted, 79. Patient Griselda, 111. _Paul and Virginia_, representative of innocent childhood, 180; an escape from the world, 181; an attempt at the preservation of childhood, 183. _Pet Lamb, The_, 149. Pheidias, 26, 28. _Pied Piper, The_, 237. _Pilgrim’s Progress, The_, 130-133. Plato, references of, to childhood, 22-26; compared with artists, 26; can be read by children, 242. Pope, Alexander, 133; compared with Milton, 133, 134; with Shakespeare, 134. _Prelude, The_, 151. _Princess, The_, 170. Puritanism, the attitude of, toward childhood, 128, 129. _Queen’s Marie_, the ballad of the, 106.