Picturing how children have lived: industrious Babylonians; staring Egyptians; felicitous Greeks; straitlaced Romans; adventurous Vikings; hardy Teutons; wistful Crusaders; elegant Elizabethans; suppressed Roundheads; supercilious Cavaliers; stuffy Georgians; slaves of the Industrial Revolution; aggressive pioneers; and the involuntary subjects of yesterday's experiments in modernism. Stoddard spent a whole year gathering the odd and unusual glimpses of children of olden days t0 make this book rich, varied, and documented. "The Story of Youth" is not only first in its field, and alone, but it will be hard to supersede.