LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

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[Sistine Madonna]	Raphael	Frontispiece
[The Strawberry Girl]	Reynolds	7
[Penelope Boothby]	Reynolds	15
[Angel Heads]	Reynolds	19
From the original painting in the National Gallery, London.
[Nature]	Lawrence	23
[Portrait of Prince James, Duke of York]	Van Dyck	33
From a painting in San Luca, Rome, after the Turin portrait by Van Dyck.
[Portrait of Princess Mary Stuart and Prince William II. of Orange]	Van Dyck	39
From the original painting in Amsterdam.
[Portrait of the Infanta Maria Theresa]	Velasquez	45
From the original painting in the Prado, Madrid.
[Portrait of the Infanta Marguerite]	Velasquez	49
From the original painting in the Louvre, Paris.
[Rustic Children]	Gainsborough	59
[La Cruche Cassée] (The Broken Pitcher)	Greuze	71
From the original painting in the Louvre, Paris.
[Child’s Head]	Bouguereau	77
[The Little Rabbit Seller]	Meyer von Bremen	81
[Beggar Boys]	Murillo	89
From the original painting in the Pinacothek, Munich.
[Street Arabs]	Dorothy Tennant Stanley	98
[The Meeting]	Marie Bashkirtseff	103
From the original painting in the Luxembourg, Paris.
[Castles in Spain]	J. G. Brown	107
[Group of Angels.] From the Assumption	Titian	119
From the original painting in the Academy, Venice.
[Piping Angel.] Detail of Frari Madonna	Bellini	127
From the original painting in Venice.
[Angel.] From Madonna and Child	Luigi Vivarini	131
From the original painting in the Church of Redentore, Venice.
[Angel.] From the Vision of Saint Bernard	Filippino Lippi	135
From the original painting in the Badia, Florence.
[Madonna of the Casa Tempi]	Raphael	147
[Infant Jesus and Saint John]	Boucher	155
From the original painting in the Uffizi, Florence.
[The Christ-Child]	Deger	159
[Head of Boy Christ]	Hofmann	163
Detail of Christ Disputing with the Doctors.

I. CHILDHOOD IN IDEAL TYPES.

O child! O new-born denizen
Of life’s great city! on thy head
The glory of the morn is shed,
Like a celestial benison!
Here at the portal thou dost stand,
And with thy little hand
Thou openest the mysterious gate
Into the future’s undiscovered land.
Longfellow.