Idmon, or Jadmon, Æsop's third master, 34; his grandson claims reparation for Æsop's death, 36 Indian birth story, 141 Indian fables, 130 Ineradicable impression produced by certain fables, 32 Iriarte, or Yriarte, Don Tomas de, Spanish fabulist, 117 Italian fabulists, 129; writers on fable, 61 Jacobs, Joseph, definition of fable by, 4; on the added morals to fables, 13; 'History of the Æsopic Fable,' 62; Maria de France, 128 James's, Rev. Thomas, fables of Æsop, 9, 60, 143 Jameson, Mrs., relates a tradition of our Lord, 87 Jātakas, 14, 53, 87 Jewish writers on fables, 61 Johnson, Dr., definition of fable by, 3 Krilof, or Krilov, Ivan Andreivitch, Russian fabulist, 19, 96, 97; characteristics of his fables, 119; sketch of his life, 120; Ralston's translation, 119; Harrison's translation, 119; _The Leaves and the Roots_, 120; _The Geese_, 121; _The Man with Three Wives_, 123 Lady fabulists, 127 La Fontaine, Jean de, on fables, 13, 17; the morals of his fables, 27; his fable of _The Old Woodcutter and Death_, 58; his fables, 96, 144; sketch of, 97; Matthews' translation, 99 La Motte, 17, 60 _Land of the Halt, The_, 132 _Leaves and the Roots, The_, 120 Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim: his fables, 96, 97; sketch of, 115; his fables of _Æsop and the Ass_, 115; _The Shepherd and the Nightingale_, 116; _Solomon's Ghost_, 116 Lessons taught by fables, 25 L'Estrange, Sir Roger, 16, 59, 60; as a writer, 61; his version of Æsop, 125 Lewis, Sir George Cornewall, edited first English edition of Babrius in the original Greek text, 67 Locman, the Oriental fabulist, 37, 80, 85, 86 Lowell's 'Fable for Critics,' 145 Lysippus' statue of Æsop, 39 Lytton's, Lord, 'Fables in Song,' 145 _Magpie and Stump, The_, 140 _Man and his Goose, The_, 10 _Man and the Lion, The_, 9 Mandeville's 'Fable of the Bees,' 144 _Mastiff and his Puppy, The_, 126 Men loath to apply the moral of a fable to their own case, 22 Menas, M. Minoides, discovers a copy of Babrius, 66 Menenius recites the fable of _The Belly and the Members_, 69 _Mercury and the Sculptor_, 57 Mercury bestows the invention of the apologue on Æsop, 43 _Miser and the Magpie, The_, 109 _Miser and Plutus, The_, 106 Mixed fables, 11 Modern fabulists, 96, 108, 115, 125 Montaigne on Æsop's fables, 14 Moore's, Edward, 'Fables for the Fair Sex,' 126; _The Nightingale and the Glow-worm_, 135 Moore's, Thomas, 'Political Fables,' 145 Moral and application of fables, 13; whether the moral should be placed at the beginning or end of a fable, 16 Neveletus' collection of fables, 59; on Babrius, 66 _Nightingale and the Glow-worm, The_, 135, 136 _Nightingale and the Hawk, The_, 54, 58 _Nightingale, Cuckoo, and Ass, The_, 142 Nivernois, 128; _The Farmer, Horseman, and Pedestrian_, 131