[18] Satire xiv. 47.
[19] A thoughtful writer in The Spectator, 3 September, 1887, notes the absence of representations of childhood in ancient art and literature, and the following number of the journal contains a note of protest from Mr. Alfred Austin, in which he says pertinently: “Is it not the foible of modern art, if I may use a homely expression, to make a fuss over what it feels, or wants others to feel, whereas an older and a nobler art, which is by no means extinct among us, prefers to indicate emotion rather than to dwell on it?”
[20] See an interesting statement of this Biblical force in the preface to Matthew Arnold’s The Great Prophecy of Israel’s Restoration, London, 1872.
[21] Hosea iv. 6.
[22] Zech. x. 9.
[23] Zech. viii. 4. 5.
[24] Isa. xi. 6-8.
[25] Malachi iv. 6.
[26] This and the other passages from the Apocryphal Gospels here cited are in the translation by Alexander Walker.
[27] Canto xxxii. 7-9, Cayley’s translation.