Northcote, R.A., James: his fables of _The Elephant and the Fox_, 29; _The Trooper and his Armour_, 113; his fables, 96, 97, 112; sketch of his life, 112 _Of Perfect Life_, from 'The Gesta Romanorum,' 90 _Old Woodcutter and Death, The_, 58 Parables, 5, 6; Nathan and the ewe lamb, 6; of the Gospels, 6 Parodies on Æsop's fables, 127 Pater, Walter, definition of fable by, 2 Pathos in fables, 58 _Perfect Life, Of_, from 'The Gesta Romanorum,' 90 Periander, 34 Persian fables, 80 Phædrus, 3, 17, 55; his view of the origin and purpose of fables, 20, 26; on Æsop's statue, 39; sketch of his life, 63; prologue to his third book, 64 Philostratus on a picture of Æsop and the geniuses of fable, 40; mythical account of the youthful Æsop, 43 Pictures illustrating fables, 143 Pilpay's fables, 80 _Piper turned Fisherman, The_, 76 Pittacus, 34 Planudes confounds Locman with Æsop, 37; his stories of Æsop, 42 Plato advises the use of fables, 26; citation from the 'Phædo' of, 59 Plutarch on Æsop at the Court of Crœsus, 49; on Hesiod's fable of the nightingale, 54 Poggio, 128 Pope's epitaph on Gay, 105 Prosser's, Mrs., fables, 128 Quintilian recommends the learning of fables, 26 Ralston's, W. R. S., translation of Krilof's fables, 119; _The Geese_, 121 Ramsay's, Allan, fables, 126 Rankine's, Professor W. J. Macquorn, fables on well-known signboards, 130; _The Magpie and Stump_, 140; _The Green Man_, 140; _The Bull and Mouth_, 141 Rational fables, 11 Reflection, the, appended to fables, 15 Remark, the, appended to fables, 15 Rhodope, the reputed wife of Æsop, 38; said to have built the Lesser Pyramid, 38 Richer, 60 Romulus, 128 Rousseau, Jean Jacques, on fables, 25, 27 Rowe, Rev. Henry: his fables, 127 Rufus, 128 Russian fabulists, 129 Scandinavian heroes and gods, 1 Seven sages of Greece, the, 34 Shakespeare's 'Coriolanus,' fable of _The Belly and the Members_ from, 69 _Shepherd and the Nightingale, The_, 116 Sidney, Sir Philip, on Æsop's fables, 145 Smart's, Christopher, translation of Phædrus, 64 _Snake and the Hedgehog, The_, 56 Socrates and Æsop's fables, 59 _Solomon's Ghost_, 116 Solon, 34; at the Court of Crœsus, 49 Spanish fabulists, 129 Staite's, W. E., fables, 127 Steele's definition of fable, 4; fable of _The Mastiff and his Puppy_, 126 Stephens', Robert, edition of the fables, 59 Stories related of Æsop, 43 Successful villain, the, in the fable, 28 Suidas quoted, 59 Swift quoted, 23 'Tatler,' the, quoted, 4 Temple, Sir William, on Æsop, 60 Thales, 34 _Toad and the Ephemeron, The_, 110 _Trees in Search of a King, The_, the oldest fable in Holy Scripture, 71 Trimmer's, Mrs., fables of Æsop, 128 _Trooper and his Armour, The_, 113 _Two Thrushes, The_, 118 Tyrwhitt on Babrius, 66 Universality of the effect of fables, 28 Vanbrugh, Sir John, 129