INDEX

Abbott, Jacob (1803-1879), [364].
Abou Ben Adhem, [102].
Actual adventure, Tale of: [512-513]; characteristics, [512]; directions for writing, [513].
Addison, Joseph (1672-1719), [86], [115], [347].
Address of the Soul to the Body, [115].
Ade, George (b. 1866), [86].
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, [225].
Adventures; see Probable adventure; [Actual adventure].
Aesop (619?-564 B. C.), [83-84].
Aikin, John, M. D. (1747-1822), [116].
Aitken, George, [371].
Alberich, [46].
Aldrich, T. B. (1836-1907), [301].
Alfred the Great, (848-901), [532]
Alfonso the Wise (1221-1284), [627].
Alice in Wonderland, [67].
Allegory: [112-120], [154], [345]; defined, [112], [117]; combined with myth, [113-114]; distinguished from myth, [6]; distinguished from parable, [116]; how to write, [117-118]; distinguished from fable, [117].
Amateur Cracksman, [301].
Ambitious Guest, [346], [459].
Ameto, [275].
Amiel, Fréderic (1821-1881), [558].
Among the Corn Rows, [427].
Ana, [491-492]; defined, [491].
Andreas, [24].
Andvari, [46].
Anecdote: [490-496], [302], [371]; compared with legend, [25]; defined, [490], [492]; how to write an, [493].
Anecdotes (Percy's), [492].
Anecdotes (Spence's), [492].
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, [614].
Annals: [613-616]; defined, [613-614]; suggestions on material, [615].
Annales Ecclesiastici, [614].
Annales et Historia de Rebus Legicis, [614].
Annals (Goethe's), [612].
Annals of the Parish, [612].
Annals of Scotland, [614].
Apologia pro Sua Vita (Newman's), [574].
Apology for My Life (Cibber's), [573].
Apparition, The, [401].
Arabian Nights, The, [129].
Arcadia (Sannazaro), [274].
Arcadia, Countess of Pembroke's, [275].
Aristotle (383-320 B. C.), [84].
Arthur, King (500?-537?), [24-25].
Artist's Secret, The, [114].
Ascham, Roger (1515-1568), [361-362].
As You Like It, [275].
Atlantic Monthly, [118], [560].
Aucassin and Nicolette, [274].
Austen, Jane (1775-1817), [372], [456], [457].
Autobiography: [572-575]; distinguished from memoirs, [572]; suggestions for writing, [574-575].
Autobiographical Leaves, [573].
Audubon, John James (1780-1851), [512].
Autobiography of Cellini, [573].
Autobiography of De Quincey, [574].
Autobiography of Franklin, [574].
Ayala, Pedro Lopez de (1332-1407), [626-627].
Barlaam and Josaphat, [23].
Barclay, Alexander (1475?-1552), [115].
Baron Munchausen, [153].
Baronius, [614].
Barrie, J. M. (b. 1860), [301].
Beast epics, [88].
Belinda, [430].
Berenice, [400].
Bergerac, Cyrano de (1619-1655), [151], [153], [154].
Berkeley, George (1685-1753), [151].
Beowulf, [23].
Berners, Lord (1467-1533), [626].
Bestiaries, [85], [115].
Bible, [3], [103], [116].
Bibliography, [648-660].
Biographical Sketches, [593].
Biography: [590-595]; beginnings of English literary biography, [591]; great biographies in English, [591-592]; special characteristics, [592-593]; outline for, [594-595].
Björnson, Björnsterne (b. 1832), [456].
Black Pearl, The, [225].
Blue Bird, The, [119].
Blue Flower, The, [114].
Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375), [85], [275], [299], [346].
Boileau, Nicolas (1636-1711), [131].
Borrow, George (1803-1881), [531].
Boswell, James (1740-1795), [492], [591].
Branch Road, A, [427].
Brentano, Clemens (1778-1842), [48].
Bronté, Charlotte (1816-1855), [431].
Brooke, Henry (1703-1783), [363].
Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810), [399].
Browning, Robert (1812-1889), [481].
Brut, The, [24].
Buddha (6th century B. C.), [23].
Bunyan, John (1628-1688), [115].
Burney, Frances (1752-1840), [560].
Burton, F. R. (b. 1861), [225].
Byron, Lord (1788-1824), [456].
Cable, G. W. (b. 1844), [301].
Caesar, Julius (100-44 B. C.), [491].
Candide, [347].
Canton, William (b. 1845), [314].
Captain Singleton, [256].
Career of Farthest North, The, [301].
Carlyle, Jane Welsh (1801-1866), [481].
Carlyle, Thomas (1795-1881), [492], [613].
Castiglione, Baldasarre (1478-1529), [362].
Castle of Indolence, The, [116].
Castle of Otranto, The, [398-399].
Catherine II (1729-1796), [572].
Caxton, William (1422-1491), [24].
Celestial Railroad, The, [117].
Cellini, Benvenuto (1500-1571), [573].
Cervantes (1547-1616), [275], [347].
Changelings, [47].
Chanson de Roland, The, [23].
"Character," The, [430].
Character-environment story: [426-432].
Character-events story: [455-460].
Charles V (1500-1558), [570].
Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770), [513].
Chaucer, Geoffrey (1340-1400), [115], [130], [300], [346], [627].
Chesterton, G. K. (b. 1874), [67].
Chinese Tales, [129].
Chirino, Pedro, [629].
Chivalry, Tales of, [131].
Christmas, [314].
Chronicles: [626-629]; defined, [626].
Chronicles of the Schönberg-Cotta Family, [612].
Chroniques de France, etc., [626].
Cibber, Colley (1671-1757), [573].
Cicero, Marcus Tullius (106-43 B. C.), [490], [491].
Cid, The, [23].
Cinderella, [65], [66], [67].
Clavijo, Ruy Gonzales de (15th century), [558-559].
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne ['Mark Twain'] (1835-1910), [299].
Cloister and the Hearth, The, [561].
Cockowe and the Nightingale, The, [115].
Collins, William (1721-1759), [116].
Complaint of Papingo, The, [115].
Comus, [3].
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, [574].
Conquest of Mexico, [613].
Coppee, Francois (b. 1842), [456].
Country of the Pointed Firs, The, [299].
Court of Love, The, [115].
Courtier, The, [362-363].
Cowper, William (1731-1800), [86], [481].
Coverley Papers, de, [430].
Craik, Dinah Maria (née Mulock) (1826-1887), [48].
Cranford, [430].
Croesus (fl. 560 B. C.), [83].
Crucial Instances, [456].
Curse of Kehama, The, [152].
Curtis, W. E. (b. 1850), [533].
Cynewulf, [24].
Daisy Miller, [372].
Dana, R. H., Jr. (1815-1882), [533].
Dante (1265-1321), [85].
Daudet, Alphonse (b. 1840), [456].
Daphnis and Chloe, [274].
Darwin, Charles Robert (1809-1882), [533].
Davis, Richard Harding (b. 1864), [274].
Day, Thomas (1748-1789), [364].
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, [613].
Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731), [151], [152], [154], [371], [561].
Deities— Egyptian, [8]; Filipino, [12-13]; Finnish, [11]; Greek, [7]; Hindoo, [9-10]; Norse, [12]; Roman, [7]; Russian, [11].
De Jocis Ciceronis, [491].
Delena (scribe to John II of Spain), [500-501].
De Quincey, Thomas (1785-1859), [574].
Descent of Man (Wharton), [456].
Detective story: [225-228]; relation to tales of ingenuity, [225]; suggestions for writing, [227].
Dialect, [301], [429].
Diamond Lens, The, [197].
Diana, [275].
Diary: [533], [557-561]; defined, [557]; distinguished from journal, [557]; great diaries and their characteristics, [560]; suggestions on writing, [561].
Diary of Mme. D'Arblay [Fanny Burney], [560].
Diary of Evelyn, [560].
Diary of Gideon Welles, [560].
Diary of Pepys, [560].
Dickens, Charles (1812-1870), [314], [501].
Discourager of Hesitancy, The, [226].
Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, [114].
Dodsley, Robert (1703-1764), [86].
Domestic Annals Of Scotland, [614].
Douglass, Frederick (1817-1895), [512].
Douglas, Gawain (1474?-1522), [115].
Doyle, A. C. (b. 1859), [225].
Drake, Alexander Wilson (b. 1843), [199].
Dream, [115].
Dream of the Rood, The, [115].
Dunbar, William (1465-1530), [115].
Easter, [314].
Edgeworth, Maria (1767-1849), [346], [364].
Elbegast, [46].
Elder Edda, [23].
Eliot, George (1820-1881), [456], [457].
El Passo Honroso, [500-501].
Emile, [363].
Emma, [430].
England's Mourning Garment, [275].
Euphues, [362].
Evelina, [430].
Evelyn, John (1620-1706), [560].
Everyman, [113].
Eye-witness account: [499-503]; defined, [499]; methods of writers of the, [501-502]; suggestions on writing, [502-503].
Fable, [83-89], [345]; distinguishing characteristics, [87-88]; kinds of fables, [87-88]; defined, [87]; origin, [83-84]; distinguished from allegory, [117].
Fables in Slang, [86].
Fableaux, [299-300].
Faerie Queene, [113].
Fairies: characteristics of, [44], [45], [46], [47]; Northern, [46], [50]; Irish, [51]; Scotch, [51]; Filipino, [51-53]; Russian, [53]; Arabian, [54]; Malayan, [46]; Miscellaneous, [54-55].
Fairy tale: [43-50]; characteristics of, [43]; distinguished from nursery sagas, [48]; directions for writing, [49]; defined, [50].
Fall of the House of Usher, The, [399-400].
Father, The, [456].
Faust, legend of, [25].
Ferdinand and Isabella, [613].
Fielding, Henry (1707-1754), [398], [431], [531], [533], [534], [558].
Firdousi [Abul Kasim Mansur] (c. 940-1020), [23].
FitzGerald, Edward (1809-1883), [482].
Fletcher, Phineas (1582-1650?), [115].
Flower and the Leaf, The, [115].
Fontaine, Jean de la (1631-1697), [85].
Fool of Quality, The, [363].
Forster, John (1812-1876), [592].
Frank, [364].
Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790), [102], [573].
Frederick the Great (1711-1786), [572].
Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins (b. 1862), [301], [372], [397], [402], [420], [427], [429].
Fremont, J. C. (1813-1890), [558].
French Revolution, [613].
Froebel, Friedrich Wilhelm August (1782-1852), [364].
Froissart, Jean (1337-1410), [626].
Galatea, [275].
Galt, John (1779-1839), [612].
Garland, Hamlin (b. 1860), [427-428].
Gaskell, Mrs. [Elizabeth Stevenson] (1810-1865), [592].
Gate of the Hundred Sorrows, The, [426].
Gaudentio de Lucca, [151].
Gay, John (1685-1732), [86].
General Chronicle of Spain, [628].
Geoffrey of Monmouth (12th century), [24], [628].
Gesta Romanorrum, [346].
Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794), [572], [613].
Gil Blas, [301].
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832), [612].
Gold Bug, The, [226-227].
Golden Legend, The, [24].
Golden Targe, The, [115].
Goldsmith, Oliver (1728-1774), [86], [592].
Gondemar, [46].
Gothic romances, [398-399]; characteristics of, [399].
Gray, Thomas (1716-1771), [481].
Great Stone Face, The, [114].
Greater Inclination, The, [456].
Green, J. R. (1837-1883), [612].
Greene, Robert (1560?-1592), [275].
Grettir the Strong, [23].
Grimm, Jacob (1785-1863), [66].
Grimm, Wilhelm (1786-1859), [66].
Griselda, [346].
Grote, George (1794-1871), [613].
Grotius, [614].
Gulliver's Travels, [151], [154].
Guzman de Alfarache, [300].
Hailes, Sir David Dalrymple, Lord (1726-92), [614].
Hakluyt, Richard (1553-1616), [629].
Halévy, L. (b. 1834), [456].
Hall, Bishop Joseph (1574-1656), [430].
Hallam, Henry (1777-1859), [613].
Hand, The, [401].
Harris, J. C. (b. 1848), [301].
Harte, Bret (1839-1902), [314], [428].
Hawes, Stephen (?-1523?), [115].
Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864), [3], [114], [116], [117], [346], [397], [459], [593].
Henryson, Robert (15th century), [86].
Heroes of nursery sagas: [66], [67-68]; of legends, [22], [27].
Heroic romances, [131].
Hesdin, Raoul, [558].
Hildebrand, [23].
Hill of Science, The, [116].
Historia Britonum, [24].
History of England (Macauley's), [613].
History of Orosius, [532].
History of the English People, [613].
History of the States and Empires of the Moon, [151].
Hitopadesa, [84-85].
Holberg, Ludwig (1684-1754), [151].
Holinshed, Ralph (died about 1580), [628].
Holmes, C. W. (1809-1894), [197].
Hook, Theodore (1788-1841), [591].
House of Fame, The, [115].
Howells, W. D. (b. 1837), [370], [371], [372], [373], [512].
Humorous story: [299-302]; relation to fableau 299; relation to picaresque romance, [300]; relation to comic anecdote, [302].
Hunt, Leigh (1784-1859), [102].
Hunter, The, [114].
Ibsen, Heinrich (1828-1906), [119].
Igorots, [3].
Imaginary voyage: [150-154]; characteristics, [150]; suggestions on how to write, [153-154].
Incident: [480-482]; defined, [480]; distinguished from eye-witness account, [480].
Incident of the French Camp, An., [481].
Ingelow, Jean (1830-1897), [48].
Insurgent, The, [456].
Irving, Washington (1783-1859), [26], [397].
Italian Republics, [613].
Italian, The, [398].
Italian Renaissance, [613].
Ivan the Fool, [68].
Ivanhoe, [227].
Jack and the Beanstalk, [66], [67].
Jack the Giant Killer, [65], [66], [67].
Jacobus de Voragine (13th century), [24].
James, Henry (b. 1843), [371], [372], [373], [533].
Jewett, Sarah Orne (b. 1849), [299].
John of Damascus (b. at end of 7th century; died c. 760?), [23].
Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784), 116, [347], [491], [492], [533], [590], [591].
Johnes, Thomas, [626].
Jonathan Wild, [301].
Journal: [533], [557-561]; defined, [557]; distinguished from diary, [557]; great journals and their characteristics, [558]; suggestions on writing, [561].
Journal Intime, [558].
Journal of the Plague, [561].
Journal of a Spy in Paris. A, [558].
Journal to Stella, [558].
Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon, A, [558].
Journey of a Day, The, [116].
Journey to the Western Isles, A, [533].
Jumping Frog, The, [299].
Jungle Book, The, [86].
Keats, John (1795-1821), [3], [314].
King Hart, [115].
Kingsley, Charles (1819-1875), [48].
Kipling, Rudyard (b. 1865), [48], [49], [86], [397], [426].
Kriloff (1768-1844), [86].
Lady Eleanor's Mantle, [346].
Lady of the Aroostook, The, [372].
Lady or the Tiger, The, [226].
Lagerlöf, Selma (b. 1858), [26].
Langland, W. (14th century), [114].
Laurin, [46].
Layamon (fl. 1200), [24].
Lazarillo de Tormes, [300].
Legend: [22-28]; defined, [28]; compared with myth, [6], [22]; myth-legend or saga, [22-23]; saint legends, [23]; legends of growth, [25]; legends of art, [26-27]; legend compared with anecdote, [25]; legends about places, [26]; legends about persons, [24-25], [131].
Legendary Romance, [24-25].
Le Grand Cyrus, [131].
Leonard and Gertrude, [361].
Letters, [481], [533].
Lewis, Matthew (1775-1818), [399].
Library of Universal Adventure, [512].
Life of Beau Nash, [592].
Life of Burns, [592].
Life of Byron, [592].
Life of Charlotte Bronte, [592].
Life of Dickens, [592].
Life of Goldsmith, [592].
Life of Johnson (Macaulay's), [592].
Life of Macaulay, [592].
Life Magnet, The, [197].
Life of Napoleon, [592].
Life of Nelson, [592].
Life of Samuel Johnson (Boswell's), [492], [591].
Life of Savage, [590], [591].
Life of Scott, [591].
Lives of the Poets, The, [590], [591].
Loarca, Miguel de, [629].
Lockhart, J. G. (1794-1854), [592].
Lodge, Thomas (1558?-1625), [275].
Loomis, Charles Battell (1861-1911), [301].
Lover, Samuel (1791-1868), [301].
Lowell, James Russell (1819-1891), [482].
Lucian (125?-210?), [84], [151].
Lyly, John (1554?-1606), [362].
Lyndesay, Sir David (1490-1555?), [115].
Mabie, Hamilton (b. 1846), [314].
Macaulay, T. B. (1800-1859), [590], [592], [613].
Machiavelli (1469-1527), [613].
Maclaren, Ian [Reverend John Watson] (b. 1850), [301].
Macpherson, James (1738-1796), [513].
Madam How and Lady Why, [48].
Madison, James (1751-1836), [558].
Maeterlink, Maurice (b. 1862), [119].
Mahabharata, The, [22].
Malory, Thomas (15th century), [24-25].
Man Who Would be King, The, [426].
Man without a Country, The, [26].
Mandeville, Sir John (14th century), [151], [532].
Märchen, [48], [65-69].
Marie de France (12th century), [84], [130].
Markheim, [400].
Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593), [558].
Mary Barton, [430].
Masque of the Red Death, The, [400].
Mateo Falcone, [456].
Matthews, Brander (b. 1852), [396]n, [401].
Maupassant, Guy de (1850-1893), [395], [397], [456], [458].
Memoirs: [572-575]; distinguished from autobiography, [572]; suggestions for writing, [574].
Memoirs of a Cavalier, The, [256].
Memoirs of My Life and Writings (Gibbon's), [572].
Menaphon, [275].
Merchant of Venice, The, [23].
Meredith, George (1828-1909), [129].
Merimée, Prosper (1803-1870), [456].
Metternich, Prince von (1773-1859), [572].
Middle Ages, [613].
Milton, John (1608-1674), [3].
Mirabeau, Comte de (1749-1791), [572].
Mirror for Magistrates, A, [115].
Mogol Tales, [129].
"Molière" [pseud. of John Baptiste Poquelin] (1622-1673), [131].
Monk, The, [399].
Monk's Tale, The, [627].
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem (1533-1592), [558].
Montcalm and Wolfe, [613].
Montemayor, Jorge de (d. 1561), [275].
Montepolitiano, Barthelemi (15th century), [491].
Moore, Thomas (1779-1852), [86], [592].
Mopsa the Fairy, [48].
Moral story, [345-348]; distinguished from symbolic-didactic group, [345]; purpose defined, [345-346].
Morall Fables of Æsop the Phrygian, [86].
Morga, Dr. Antonio de, [629].
Morte d'Arthur, [24].
Mother Plays, [364].
Motley, John (1814-1877), [613].
Muhammad Din, [426].
Mulock, Miss, see [Craik].
Murad the Unlucky, [346].
Murders in the Rue Morgue, The, [225].
Mystery of Marie Rogêt, The, [225-226].
Mysteries of Udolpho, The, [398].
Myths: [1-15]; classes of, [1]; Igorot myths, [3]; how to collect, [4-5]; how to compose, [5-6]; distinguished from allegory, [6]; distinguished from legend, [6], [22]; defined, [7].
Necklace, The, [456].
Nennius, (fl. 796?), [24].
New Atlantis, [153].
New Arabian Nights, [129].
New England Nun, A, [426].
New Heloise, [363].
Newman, J. H. (1801-90), [573].
Nibelungenlied, [23].
Niel Klim's Underground Journey, [151].
Northanger Abbey, [457].
Novel, [430-431]; manners, [430]; psychological problem novel, [431].
Novelas Ejemplares, [347].
Novelist's Allegory, The, [118].
Nursery saga: [65-69]; origin, [65]; distinguishing elements, [66-68]; defined, [69].
Oak and the Reed, The, [85].
Oberon, [46].
O'Brien, Fitz-James (1828-1862), [197], [401].
Occasional story, [313-315]; spirit of the, [313], [314]; suggestions for writing, [314].
Ohthere, [532].
Old English Baron, The, [398].
One Hoss Shay, The, [197].
Orlando Furioso, [23].
Osborne, Dorothy (1627-1695), [481].
Other Wise Man, The, [26].
Outcasts of Poker Flat, The, [428].
Overbury, Thomas (1581-1613), [430].
Page, Thomas Nelson (b. 1853), [301].
Palace of Honor, The, [115].
Paltock, R. (1697-1767), [152-153].
Panchatantra, [84-85].
Pandosto, [275].
Panther, The, [115].
Paradise Lost, [3].
Paradise of Fooles, [115].
Parable: [101-103]; contrasted with fable, [101]; defined, [103]; characteristics, [101-102]; suggestions on writing, [103]; distinguished from allegory, [116-117].
Parkman, Francis (1823-1893), [613].
Parlament of Foules, The, [115].
Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718), [115].
Passions, The, [116].
Pastime of Pleasure, The, [115].
Pastoral romance, [274-276].
Pedagogical narrative: [48], [361-365]; characteristics, [361], [363].
Peer Gynt, [119].
Pellico, Silvio (1788-1854), [572].
Pepys, Samuel (1633-1703), [560].
Percy (anecdote writers), [492].
Peri, [47].
Perry, T. S., [512].
Persian Tales, [129].
Pessimism, [347].
Pestalozzi, Johann Heinrich (1745-1827), [361], [365].
Peter Schlemihl, [114].
Petrarch, Francesco (1304-1374), [85].
Petronius Arbiter (d. 62), [300].
Phædrus (time of Nero), [85].
Phantom 'Rickshaw, The, [401].
Philippines, [3], [46], [629].
Phoenix, The, [115].
Picaresque romance, [300-301], [371].
Piers Plowman, [114].
Pilgrim's Progress, The, [113], [115].
Pit and the Pendulum, The, [399].
Planudes, [84].
Plasencia, Juan de la, [629].
Plato (427-347 B. C.), [3], [4], [84], [113-114], [491].
Pliny the Elder (23-79), [512].
Plot, Tales of Pure, [225-8].
Plutarch (46?-120?), [3], [84].
Poe, E. A. (1809-1849), [225-226], [395], [396], [397], [399], [400].
Poems in Prose, [114].
Poems on the Naming of Places, [481].
Poggio, Gian Francesco (1380-1459), [85], [491].
Polo, Marco (1254-1324), [151], [532].
Pope, Alexander (1688-1744), [86].
Prescott, W. H. (1796-1859), [613].
Pride and Prejudice, [457].
Principal Navigations, Voyages, and Discoveries, [629].
Prior, Matthew (1664-1721), [86].
Prisoner of Zenda, The, [227].
Probable adventure: tale of, [255-257]; definition, [256]; the writing of, [256-257].
Procopius (6th century), [490].
Proverbs: Armenian to be used for fables, [89-90]; to be used for parables, [103-104].
Puck of Pook's Hill, [48], [49].
Purloined Letter, The, [225].
Purple Island, The, [115].
Pushkin, A. (1802-1837), [227], [456].
Quiñiones, Suero de, [500], [501].
Radcliffe, Anne (1764-1822), [399].
Ramayana, [22].
Rasselas, [347].
Reade, Charles (1814-1884), [458], [561].
Realism, [370], [371], [372], [373], [457].
Realism, story of present day: [370-374]; elements of, [370-371]; suggestions on types to treat, [373].
Reeve, Clara (1729-1807), [398].
Religion, Primitive, [1-2].
Reporting, [501].
Republic, The, [113].
Return of the Private, The, [427].
Revelation, The, [116].
Revolt of Mother, The, [429].
Reynard the Fox, [85].
Rhyme in nursery sagas, [66], [67], [68].
Ribeyro, Bernardino (fl. 1500), [275].
Richardson, Samuel (1689-1761), [398], [431].
Rise of the Dutch Republic, [613].
Rip van Winkle, [26].
Robin and Makyne, [86].
Robinson Crusoe, [151], [152], [256], [481].
Roderick Random, [301].
Rollo Books, The, [364].
Romance, [114], [130-131], [227].
Romance of the Forest, The, [398].
Romaunt of the Rose, The, [115].
Roosevelt, Theodore (b. 1858), [533].
Rosalynd, [275].
Rosamond, [364].
Rostand, Edmond (b. 1862), [86].
Rousseau, Jean Jacques (1712-1778), [363], [574].
Rumpelstiltskin, [66].
Sackville, Thomas (1536?-1608), [115].
Saga: defined, [22]; compared with legend, [22-23]; compared with nursery tale, [65].
St. Augustine (354-430), [574].
Saints, legends of, [23-24].
Sam Lawson's Fireside Stories, [299].
Sandford and Merton, [364].
Sannazaro, Jacopo (1458-1530), [274-275].
Sardou, Victorien (b. 1831), [225].
Saturday Evening Post, [301].
Satyricon, [300].
Saxo Grammaticus (fl. 12th century), [628].
Schiller, Johann Friedrich (1759-1805), [613].
Scholemaster, The, [361-362].
School of Terror, [398-399].
Scientific discovery, tale of: [194-199]; origin, [194]; differentiated from imaginary voyage, [195-196]; essential elements, [196]; suggestions for writing, [197-199]; humor in, [199].
Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832), [456], [457].
Scrap-books, [458-459].
Schreiner, Olive (b. 1862), [114].
Scudéri, Mme. de (1607-1701), [131].
Secret History of the Court of Justinian, [490].
Selden, John (1584-1654), [491].
Shah Nameh, [22].
Shakespeare, (1564-1616), [23], [275], [628].
Shaving of Shagpat, The, [129].
Shaw, G. B. (b. 1856), [67], [257].
Ship of Fooles, The, [115].
Short-story, the artistic: [395-398]; elements analyzed, [396], [497]; compared with romance and novel, [395-396]; kinds of, [397].
Shot, The, [456].
Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586), [275].
Siege of Berlin, The, [456].
Sismondi (1773-1842), [613].
Skeat, Walter William, [115]n.
Smollett, Tobias (1721-1771), [398], [531].
Snow Storm, The, [227].
Society story: [273-277]; defined, [274]; compared with pastoral romance, [274-275]; suggestions for writing, [276-277].
Socrates (469-399 B. C.), [84], [491].
Southey, Robert (1774-1843), [152], [592].
Spence, Joseph (1699-1768), [492].
Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599), [115].
Spider's Eye, The, [197].
Squire's Tale, The, [130].
Staël-Holstein, Mme. de (1776-1817), [572].
Stanley, Sir Henry M. (1841-1904), [256], [533].
Steele, Richard (1672-1729), [86], [347].
Stevenson, R. L. (1850-1894), [114], [129], [256], [397], [400], [482], [533].
Stockton, F. R. (1834-1902), [197], [301].
Stories of the Supernatural, [402].
Stow, John (1525-1605), [614-615].
Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1812-1896), [299], [346], [347].
Substitute, The, [456].
Supernatural elements, [67-68].
Survey of London, [615].
Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745), [151], [558].
Symonds, J. A. (1840-1893), [613].
Taal volcano, eruption of, [512], [513]n.
Table Talk, [491].
Tacitus, Caius Cornelius (fl. about 75-120), [6].
Tamburlane, [558-559].
Tartar Tales, [129].
Tarnkappe, [46].
Taylor, Bayard (1825-1878), [533].
Temple of Glass, The, [115].
Tennessee's Partner, [428].
Terror, School of, [398-399].
Thackeray, W. M. (1811-1863), [314], [466], [458].
Theocritus (fl. 3rd century B. C.) 275.
Thirty Years' War, [613].
Thistle and the Rose, The, [115].
Thomson, James (1700-1748), [116].
Tiberius (45 B. C.-37 A. D.), [85].
Ticknor, George (1791-1871), [500]n.
Tolstoy, Count Leo (1828-1910), [26], [68], [102], [119], [347], [373].
Tom Tit Tot, [66].
Toxophilus, [362].
Transferred Ghost, The, [226].
Traveler's sketch, [530-534]; defined, [530].
Travels of Marco Polo, [532].
Treasure Island, [256].
Trevelyan, Sir George Otto (b. 1838), [592].
Tristram Shandy, [430].
Trollope, Anthony (1815-1882), [431].
True History, [151].
True relation of the Apparition of Mrs. Veal, [371].
True relations, [629]; distinguished from chronicle, [629].
Turkish Tales, [129].
Twain, Mark [pseud. of Samuel L. Clemens]. See [Clemens].
Two Years Before the Mast, [533].
"Uncle Remus" stories, [86].
Uncle Tom's Cabin, [346].
Uplondish Mous and the Berger Mous, [86].
Up the Coolly, [427].
Utopia, [153].
Van Bibber, and Others, [274].
Van Dyke, Henry (b. 1852), [26], [114], [314], [626]n.
Venetian Glass, The, [401].
Vicar of Wakefield, The, [430].
Vida del Gran Tamurlan, [558-559].
Views Afoot, [583].
Virgil (70-19 B. C.), [275].
Vision of Er, The, [4], [113-114].
Vision of Mirza, The, [115].
Volsunga Saga, The, [23].
Voltaire, F. Arouet de (1694-1778), [347].
Voyage and Travaille, [532].
Voyage in Italy, A, [558].
Voyage of Peter Wilkins, The, [152].
Voyage of the Beagle, The, [533].
Voyages Imaginaires, [150], [256].
Walpole, Horace (1717-1797), [398], [491].
Walpoliana, [491].
Waltharilied, [23].
Walton, Isaac (1593-1683), [362-363].
Wandering Jew, legend of the, [26].
Waverley Novels, [456].
Weird tale: [49], [398-402]; origin, [398]; material and method, [402]; form, [402]; suggestions for writing, [401-402].
Welles, Gideon (1802-1878), [560].
Wharton, Edith (b. 1862), [456].
What is It? a Mystery, [401].
What Men Live By, [26], [102].
Wiggin, Kate Douglas (b. 1857), [301], [314].
Wilde, Oscar (1856-1900), [114].
William Wilson, [400].
Wind in the Rose Bush, The, [401], [402].
Without Benefit of Clergy, [426].
Wilkins, M. E.; see [Freeman].
Wonder Book, [3].
Wonder, tales of mere: [6], [25], [128], [129-132], [346], [398]; defined, [129]; suggestions for writing, [129-131]; contrasted with folk tales, [129].
Wordsworth, William (1770-1850), [481].
Wulfstan, [532].
Xenophon (435 B. C.), [491].
Yeats, William Butler (b. 1865), [46], [301].
Youth's Companion, [256].
Ysopet, [84].
Zeus, [2].