When the thought is less obscure, it is better suited to pictorial utterance, and Watts sometimes painted pictures as simple as these are difficult.
There is nothing obscure in our frontispiece picture of 'Red Ridinghood.' It sets before us a child's version and vision of a child's fable that is imperishable, and as such makes an immediate appeal to the eye.

She is not acting a part or posing as a princess, but is simply a cowering little girl, frightened at the wolf and eager to protect her basket.

In her freshness and simplicity, a cottage maiden with anxious blue eyes, most innocent and childish of children, she need not shun proximity to Richard II., Edward VI., William of Orange, Don Balthazar Carlos, and the Duke of Gloucester.
And thus we conclude our procession of royal children with a child of the people.

Beginning with Richard II., a portrait of a king rather than a child, we end with a picture in which childhood merely, without the gift of distinction or the glamour of royalty, suffices to charm a great painter's eye and inspire his thought.

With the sweetness and grace of modern childhood filling our eyes, may we not well close this children's book?
INDEX 'Adoration of the Lamb,' 56-59 Adoration of the Magi, treatment of, 33 'Age of Innocence,' 171 _Alice in Wonderland_, 2 'All-pervading,' the, 196 Animals, painting of, 142 Antonello of Messina, 67-69 Art, definition of, 4 Atmosphere, 10 treatment of by Dutch School, 139, 140 by Holbein, 139 by Velasquez, 156 Beauneveu, Andre, of Valenciennes, 43 Bellini, Giovanni, 98, 102 Black Death, influence of, 41 Botticelli, 70-77, 145 influence of, on Burne-Jones, 191 Brett's 'Val d'Aosta,' 192 _et seq._ Burne-Jones, 190 _et seq._ Byzantium, influence of, 19 Turkish conquest of, 20 'Chaos,' 196 Charles I.employs Rubens, 143 employs Van Dyck, 147 painted by Velasquez, 157 Charles II., 131 Charles V., King of France, 40 Charles V., Emperor, 153 Chillon, Castle of, 11 Churches, medieval grandeur of, 14 Cimabue, Vasari's account of, 24 picture in National Gallery, 25 picture in Santa Maria Novella, 25 training of Giotto, 27 Civilization, definition of, 9 Claude Lorraine, 181-183 Constable, 180 Correggio, 91 Crome, Old, 178 Cuyp, 138-142, 180 'Dido building Carthage,' 182 Don Balthazar Carlos, 154 _et seq._, 160 _et seq._ Douglas, Lady Alfred, 75 Dragons, fear of, 12 Duke of Gloucester, 170-171 Durer, 106-107 compared with Holbein, 113 Dutch expansion in the seventeenth century, 117 'Dweller in the Innermost,' 196 Edward the Confessor, story of, 32 Edward Prince of Wales, 111-115 Eighteenth century, artificiality of, 168 Erasmus, 109-110 portrait of, 114 Etching, process of, 127 Fighting _Temeraire_, 176 _et seq._ Francis of Assisi, life of, 17, 21 Franciscans, foundation of the order of, 22 'Fresco' painting, 39 Gainsborough, 173 _et seq._ Garden of Eden, 95 Giorgione, 94-98, 140 Giotto, 27, 28, 35, 50 'Golden Age,' 95-98, 142 Goldsmith, 174 Greeks, influence of, 10, 65 Henrietta Maria, 149 Henry VIII., 109 _et seq._ employs Holbein, 110 portrait of, 114 Hobbema, 141, 178 Hogarth, 166 _et seq._ Holbein, 102-115, 139, 151 'Erasmus' in collection of Charles I., 147 Holman Hunt, 190, 191 Horne, Herbert P., 74 Hubert van Eyck, 46 _et seq._, 140 Hulin, Dr., 49 Il Penseroso, 83 Impressionism, beginning of, 162 Infanta Marguerita, 161 _et seq._ James II., 149 Jerusalem Chamber, 18 view of, taken in 1486, 49 Joachim, portrait of, 195 John, Duke of Berry, 40, 42, 53 John, King of France, 40 John van Eyck, 60 compared with Durer, 107 Josse Vyt, 58 Julius II., Pope, 88 'Knight's Dream,' 78, 82-86 L'Allegro, 83 Landscape painting, beginning of, 50 Lely, Sir Peter, 131 Leonardo da Vinci, 80-81, 89-90, 110 compared with Durer, 107 'Les Meninas,' 162 Liber Studiorum, 183 Louis, Duke of Anjou, 40 Luini, Bernardino, 90-91 'Madonna of the Rocks,' 90 'Man in Armour,' 126-127 Mantegna, 69, 70, 102 'Triumphs of Caesar,' 148 Maria Theresa, 163 Marie de Medicis, 143 Mary Stuart, 149-150 Medieval detail, 37 coronation, solemnity of, 34 guilds, 44 Michelangelo, 80 influence on Reynolds, 169, 172 influence on Tintoret, 99 Millais, 190 Milton, 83 More, Sir Thomas, 109, 110 Mosque of Omar, 49 Newbolt, Henry, 187 'Night Watch,' Rembrandt's, 123-124 'Norham Castle,' 183 'Norwich School,' 178 'Pallas Athene,' 127 Perspective, 66 absence of, 55 Hubert's improvement in, 55 mastery of, in Renaissance, 67 Perugino, 79 Peter de Hoogh, 133-136 Philip IV., 154, 155 Philip the Bold, 40, 41 Philip the Good, 52 Photographs and pictures, the difference between them, 4 Portraiture, in the fifteenth century, growth of, 60 Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, 189 _et seq._ 'Rain, Steam, and Speed,' 184 Raphael, 78-89, 140 cartoons, in collection of Charles I., 147 comparison with Giorgione, 94, 97 influence on Velasquez, 159 'Red Ridinghood,' 197 Reformation, effect of on art, 108 Rembrandt, 118-132, 135 'Anatomy,' 122, 157 compared with Peter de Hoogh, 134 compared with Van Dyck, 151 compared with Velasquez, 156 landscapes of, 139 Syndics, 130 Revelations, 57, 74 Revival of learning, 65 Reynolds, 169-175 Richard II., portrait of, 29 _et seq._ diptych, 47, 50, 139, 197 diptych in collection of Charles I., 147 Roger van der Weyden, 61 Rome, influence on Turner, 181 Rossetti, 190 _et seq._ Royal Academy, 174 Rubens, 138, 143-145 friendship with Velasquez, 157 on Charles I., 147 Ruysdael, 141 Santi, Giovanni, 79 St.Catherine, Raphael's, 85 burial of, 90 St.Catherine of Siena, 17 St.Edmund, 33 St.Francis of Assisi, 17, 21 preaching to the birds, 4, 23, 50 St.George slaying the dragon, 100-102 St.Jerome's cell, 6, 63-69 lion of, 142 St.Matthew, 46 Saskia, 121, 122 _et seq._ Savonarola, 73-76 Sistine Madonna, 85 Spain, greatness of, in sixteenth century, 153 Stained-glass windows, influence of in the fourteenth century, 36 Steen, Jan, 137, 167 'Strayed Sheep,' 191 'Surrender of Breda,' 159 Tenniel, 2 Tennyson, portrait of, 195 Terborch, 137 'Three Maries,' 46-59 compared with Botticelli's 'Nativity,' 77 compared with Raphael's 'Knight's Dream,' 85 treatment of atmosphere in, 140 Timoteo Viti, 82 Tintoret, 99-102 influence on Velasquez, 159 Titian, 98, 99, 140, 159 Turner, 176-187 sunsets of, 9 'Ulysses deriding Polyphemus,' 184 Umbrian landscape, beauty of, 79 'Valparaiso,' 193 Van Dyck, 145-152 compared with Reynolds, 170 _et seq._ comparison with Velasquez, 161 Van Eyck's influence in Germany, 105 Vasari, 23, 25 Velasquez, 153-164 compared with Reynolds, 169 influence of, 193 Venice, influence on Turner, 180, 185 influence of on Venetian artists, 93 _et seq._ Veronese, 102 Watts, 195-197 Whistler, 192 _et seq._, 193 William the Silent, 116, 146 William II.