A Manual of the Art of Fiction

by Clayton Meeker Hamilton

SUGGESTED READING

Robert Louis Stevenson: “On Some Technical Elements of Style in Literature.”

Walter Pater: “Essay on Style,” in “Appreciations.”

Herbert Spencer: “Philosophy of Style.”

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INDEX

Actions and Reactions, [112], [137].
Adam Bede, [20], [33], [116].
Addison, Joseph, [xv];
Sir Roger de Coverley, [xv].
Æneid, The, [160], [161], [162].
Alcott, Louisa M., [78];
Little Women, [78].
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, [137];
Marjorie Daw, [137].
Alice in Wonderland, [18].
Ambitious Guest, The, [174].
American Short Stories, [174].
Amiel, Henri-Frédéric, [9].
Andersen, Hans Christian, [11].
Angel in the House, The, [158].
An Habitation Enforced, [112].
Anna Karénina, [xxi].
Arcadia, [102].
Archer, William, [8].
Ariosto, Ludovico, [102];
Orlando Furioso, [102].
Aristotle, [69], [70].
Arnold, Matthew, [184].
Assignation, The, [38].
As You Like It, [12].
At the End of the Passage, [110].
Aubignac, Abbé d’, [xviii], [xx];
Pratique du Théâtre, [xviii].
Aurora Leigh, [158].
Austen, Jane, [7], [21], [29], [90], [130], [131], [221], [222];
Emma, [90], [130], [146];
Pride and Prejudice, [131], [146].
Bacon, Francis, [34].
Baldwin, Charles Sears, [174], [175], [180];
American Short Stories, [174].
Balfour, Graham, [54].
Balzac, Honoré de, [xiv], [xvi], [xvii], [55], [58], [157], [163], [184];
Eugénie Grandet, [173];
Human Comedy, [163].
Barrie, Sir James Matthew, [xxiv], [13], [28], [135], [136].
Beach of Falesá, The, [182].
Beowulf, [133].
Bernhardt, Sarah, [165].
Besant, Sir Walter, [xxiv], [37];
The Art of Fiction, [37].
Beyle, Henri, see Stendhal.
Boccaccio, Giovanni, [xiv], [64], [101], [180];
Decameron, [64], [101], [180].
Boswell, James, [125].
Brontë, Charlotte, [13];
Jane Eyre, [13], [122], [124], [170].
Brougham, Lord, [xxiii].
Browne, Sir Thomas, [213].
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, [158];
Aurora Leigh, [158].
Browning, Robert, [157].
Brunetière, Ferdinand, [xiv], [167];
History of Classical French Literature, [14].
Brushwood Boy, The, [28], [35], [205], [223].
Buffon, Comte de, [207], [218].
Bunner, Henry Cuyler, [137], [152];
A Sisterly Scheme, [152];
The Documents in the Case, [137].
Bunyan, John, [81];
Pilgrim’s Progress, [65], [81].
Burbage, Richard, [165].
Cable, George Washington, [111].
Calderon, [219].
Camoëns, [160]; The Lusiads, [160].
Captive, The, [91], [124].
Carlyle, Thomas, [10];
Heroes and Hero-Worship, [10].
Carmen, [173].
Carroll, Lewis, Alice in Wonderland, [18].
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Cask of Amontillado, The, [143], [178].
Cervantes, [xiv], [8], [219];
Don Quixote, [xxv], [162], [219];
The Curious Impertinent, [219].
Chateaubriand, René de, [18].
Child’s Dream of a Star, A, [185].
Cimabue, [99].
Collins, Wilkie, [18], [51], [75], [153];
The Moonstone, [75].
Colomba, [173].
Colvin, Sir Sidney, [179].
Cooper, James Fenimore, [xvi], [29], [146], [186], [220];
Leatherstocking Tales, [221];
The Last of the Mohicans, [173];
The Spy, [146].
Coppée, François, [159];
The Strike of the Iron-Workers, [159];
The Substitute, [159].
Coquelin, Constant, [165].
Corneille, Pierre, [xx].
Crawford, F. Marion, [xxiv], [26];
The Novel: What It Is, [26].
Criticism and Fiction, [40], [134].
Curious Impertinent, The, [219].
Cyrano de Bergerac, [165].
Daisy Miller, [173].
Daniel Deronda, [130], [149].
D’Annunzio, Gabriele, [7], [18].
Dante Alighieri, [32], [160], [225];
The Divine Comedy, [160], [224], [225].
Daudet, Alphonse, [79], [107], [144], [174], [186], [187];
Sapho, [19], [79];
The Elixir of the Reverend Father Gaucher, [107];
The Last Class, [174].
David Copperfield, [72].
David Swan, [65].
Deal in Cotton, A, [137].
Decameron, [64], [101], [180].
Defoe, Daniel, xv, [103], [122];
Robinson Crusoe, [103], [122].
De Quincey, Thomas, [10], [214];
The English Mail-Coach, [214].
Dickens, Charles, [xx], [23], [70], [72], [81], [104], [147], [185];
A Child’s Dream of a Star, [185];
A Tale of Two Cities, [68], [147];
David Copperfield, [72];
Martin Chuzzlewit, [86];
Our Mutual Friend, [70], [96], [103], [152];
Pickwick Papers, [xxv];
The Old Curiosity Shop, [104], [105].
Divine Comedy, The, [160], [224], [225].
Documents in the Case, The, [137].
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan, [125], [149].
Dream-Children, [223].
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Strange Case of, [xxii], [33], [38], [126], [182].
Dryden, John, xx.
Dumas, Alexandra, père, [xvi], [xxiii], [9], [42], [50], [145].
Du Maurier, George, [117].
Eckermann, J. P., [xx].
Egoist, The, [72], [84], [92], [113].
Elia, Essays of, [223].
Eliot, George, [xvii], [xxiii], [6], [13], [20], [25], [27], [28], [29], [33], [37], [41], [45], [51], [67], [70], [72], [73], [83], [87], [88], [116], [123], [129], [130], [184], [186], [221];
Adam Bede, [20], [33], [116];
Daniel Deronda, [130], [149];
Middlemarch, [70], [79];
Romola, [28], [37], [114], [148];
Silas Marner, [29], [67];
The Mill on the Floss, [12], [87], [112].
Elixir of the Reverend Father Gaucher, The, [107].
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, [43], [80];
Representative Men, [80].
Emma, [90], [130], [146].
English Mail-Coach, The, [214].
Erasmus, [xiv].
Erckmann-Chatrian, [163].
Essays of Elia, [223].
Esther, Book of, [174].
Eugénie Grandet, [173].
Evangeline, [159].
Evan Harrington, [73], [127].
Experimental Novel, The, [111].
Faerie Queene, The, [102], [161].
Fall of the House of Usher, The, [96], [114], [117], [143].
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False Dawn, [113].
Ferber, Edna, [193].
Fielding, Henry, [xv], [103];
Tom Jones, [xxv].
Flaubert, Gustave, [xvii], [25], [26], [114];
Madame Bovary, [26];
Salammbô, [114].
Franklin, Benjamin, [80];
Autobiography of, [80].
Freeman, Mrs. Mary E. Wilkins, [111].
Freytag, Gustave, [xxiv];
Technic of the Drama, [xxiv].
Froude, James Anthony, [xxiii].
Furetière, Antoine, [xvii], [xviii];
Roman Bourgeois, [xvii].
Garland, Hamlin, [111].
Gentle Boy, The, [191].
Gesta Romanorum, [64], [101].
Gift of the Magi, The, [143], [194].
Gil Blas, [66], [122].
Giotto, [99], [101].
Glanvill, Joseph, [195].
Goethe, J. W. von, [xx];
Conversations with Eckermann, xx.
Goldsmith, Oliver, [xv];
The Vicar of Wakefield, [84], [85].
Goncourt, Jules and Edmond de, [28].
Gossip on Romance, A, [56], [108].
Greene, Robert, [xxiii].
Gummere, Francis B., [xvii].
Hale, Edward Everett, [182];
The Man Without a Country, [182].
Hamlet, [xiv], [8], [9], [82], [165], [169].
Hardy, Thomas, [111];
Tess of the D’Urbervilles, [111].
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, [xvii], [7], [15], [20], [28], [29], [31], [38], [65], [71], [72], [73], [146], [148], [154], [159], [175], [180], [186], [187], [191], [193], [205], [223];
David Swan, [65];
The Ambitious Guest, [174];
The Gentle Boy, [191];
The House of the Seven Gables, [7], [28], [31];
The Marble Faun, [38], [73], [154];
The Scarlet Letter, [xxv], [15], [20], [29], [36], [71], [72], [73], [146], [223];
The White Old Maid, [148].
Hedda Gabler, [148].
Hegel, G. F. W., [xix].
Henry Esmond, [28], [122].
Henry IV, [49].
Henry, O., [143], [193], [194];
The Gift of the Magi, [143], [194].
Heroes and Hero-Worship, [10].
Hervieu, Paul, xxiv.
Homer, [74], [133], [157], [160], [162];
The Iliad, [94], [133], [160], [162];
The Odyssey, [133].
Horace, [74].
House of the Seven Gables, The, [7], [28], [31].
Howells, William Dean, [40], [134], [135];
Criticism and Fiction, [40], [134];
The Rise of Silas Lapham, [173].
Hugo, Victor, [xvi], [xxiii], [25], [26], [50], [112], [145], [149];
Les Misérables, [26];
Notre Dame de Paris, [112], [145], [149], [173].
Human Comedy, [163].
Humble Remonstrance, A, [60], [70].
Huxley, Thomas Henry, [xxi].
Ibsen, Henrik, [8], [12], [147];
Hedda Gabler, [148];
Rosmersholm, [147].
Iceland Fisherman, The, [112].
Iliad, The, [94], [133], [160], [162].
Irving, Washington, [7], [181],

[222];
Rip Van Winkle, [181];
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, [181].
James, Henry, [21], [27], [37], [57], [72], [78], [118], [137], [151], [181];
Daisy Miller, [173];
The Art of Fiction, [27], [118];
The Turn of the Screw, [151], [181];
What Maisie Knew, [137].
Jane Eyre, [13], [122], [124], [170].
Jerusalem Liberated, [160].
Johnson, Samuel, [xv], [xviii], [xx], [xxiii], [125].
Jonson, Ben, [81].
Just So Stories, [23].
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Keats, John, [211].
Kenilworth, [149], [173].
Kidnapped, [15], [122], [124].
Kim, [67], [148].
King Lear, [82].
Kipling, Rudyard, [11], [21], [22], [23], [35], [39], [50], [67], [79], [82], [87], [106], [110], [112], [124], [127], [137], [148], [150], [157], [169], [173], [174], [184], [185], [186], [187], [191], [192], [193], [194], [205];
Actions and Reactions, [112], [137];
A Deal in Cotton, [137];
An Habitation Enforced, [112];
At the End of the Passage, [110];
False Dawn, [113];
How the Elephant Got His Trunk, [11];
Just So Stories, [23];
Kim, [67], [148];
Lispeth, [193];
“Love-o’-Women,” [150];
Mrs. Bathurst, [95], [127], [150];
Only a Subaltern, [14];
Plain Tales from the Hills, [185], [191], [193];
Soldiers Three, [127];
The Brushwood Boy, [28], [35], [205], [223];
The Captive, [91], [124];
The Light That Failed, [173];
The Three-Decker, [174];
They, [22], [35], [87], [169], [205];
Thrown Away, [192];
Without Benefit of Clergy, [21], [106], [174], [192].
Kreutzer Sonata, The, xxi.
Lady of the Lake, The, [158].
Lady or the Tiger? The, [154], [183].
Lamb, Charles, [135], [223];
Dream-Children, [223];
Essays of Elia, [223];
The South Sea House, [135].
Lantern-Bearers, The, [23].
Last Class, The, [174].
Last Days of Pompeii, The, [113].
Last of the Mohicans, The, [173].
Leatherstocking Tales, [221].
Le Breton, André, [xiv], [xxiii].
Lee, Sir Sidney, [71].
Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The, [181].
Leibnitz, Baron G. W. von, [104].
Leonardo da Vinci, [100].
Le Sage, Alain René, [66];
Gil Blas, [66], [122].
Les Facheux, [66].
Les Misérables, [26].
L’Etourdi, [66].
Lewes, George Henry, [51].
Ligeia, [174], [194], [195], [201], [204].
Light That Failed, The, [173].
Lispeth, [193].
Little Women, [78].
London, Jack, [111].
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, [159], [225];
Evangeline, [159].
Loti, Pierre, [112];
The Iceland Fisherman, [112].
“Love-o’-Women,” [150].
Lowell, James Russell, [xvii], [7].
Lucile, [158].
Lusiads, The, [160].
Macbeth, [7], [82], [153], [168].
MacLeod, Fiona, [113].
Madame Bovary, [26].
Man Without a Country, The, [182].
Manzoni, Alessandro, xvi.
Marble Faun, The, [38], [73], [154].
Marjorie Daw, [137].
Markheim, [xxii], [36], [48], [141], [154], [174], [215], [216], [217].
Marmion, [158].
Martin Chuzzlewit, [86].
Masque of the Red Death, The, [142], [149], [155], [178].
Master of Ballantrae, The, [92], [93], [94], [113], [126], [148], [170].
Matthews, Brander, [42], [137], [173], [176];
The Documents in the Case, [137];
The Philosophy of the Short-Story, [176].
Maud, [158].
Maupassant, Guy de, [40], [63], [132], [134], [142], [143], [152], [174], [180], [181], [184], [186], [187], [193], [221];
Pierre et Jean, [40];
The Necklace, [142], [152], [174].
Mendès, Catulle, [29].
Merchant of Venice, The, [68].
Meredith, George, [29], [55], [72], [73], [113], [127], [129], [130], [169], [171], [184], [186];
Evan Harrington, [73], [127];
The Egoist, [72], [84], [92], [113];
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, [113].
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Meredith, Owen, [160];
Lucile, [160].
Merimée, Prosper, [173];
Carmen, [173];
Colomba, [173].
Merry Men, The, [54].
Middlemarch, [70], [79].
Millet, Jean-François, [101].
Mill on the Floss, The, [12], [87], [112].
Milton, John, [160], [162];
Paradise Lost, [160].
Modern Painters, [105].
Molière, J. B. Poquelin de, [xix], [66], [165];
Les Facheux, [66];
Le Tartufe, [xix], [8];
L’Etourdi, [66].
Moonstone, The, [75].
Motley, John Lothrop, [xxiii].
Mrs. Bathurst, [95], [127], [150].
Mrs. Knollys, [219], [220].
Murders in the Rue Morgue, The, [75], [222].
Necklace, The, [142], [152], [174].
New Arabian Nights, [28], [85].
Newcomes, The, [126], [173].
Nibelungen Lied, [133].
Norris, Frank, [xxii], [111], [164].
Notre Dame de Paris, [112], [145], [149], [173].
Nouvelle Héloise, La, [104].
Novel, The: What It Is, [26].
Odyssey, The, [133].
Œdipus King, xix.
Old Curiosity Shop, The, [104], [105].
Only a Subaltern, [14].
Ordeal of Richard Feverel, The, [113].
Orlando Furioso, [102].
Ostade, Adrian van, [100].
Othello, [149], [169].
Our Mutual Friend, [70], [96], [103], [152].
Pamela, [20].
Paradise Lost, [160].
Parkman, Francis, [10].
Patmore, Coventry, [158];
The Angel in the House, [158].
Paul and Virginia, [102].
Peele, George, xxiii.
Pendennis, [14].
Pepys, Samuel, [47].
Perry, Bliss, [xxiv], [28], [29], [182], [183], [184];
A Study of Prose Fiction, [28], [182].
Petrarch, [71].
Philosophy of Composition, The, [194].
Philosophy of the Short-Story, The, [176].
Pickwick Papers, xxv.
Pierre et Jean, [40].
Pilgrim’s Progress, [65], [81].
Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing, [149], [171].
Pit and the Pendulum, The, [183].
Plain Tales from the Hills, [185], [191], [193].
Plato, [9].
Plutarch, [10].
Poe, Edgar Allan, [29], [38], [75], [114], [115], [125], [142], [143], [144], [172], [174], [175], [176], [177], [178], [179], [180], [181], [183], [184], [185], [186], [187], [190], [193], [194], [195], [196], [197], [198], [199], [200], [201], [204], [205], [221], [222];
Ligeia, [174], [194], [195], [201], [204];
The Assignation, [38];
The Cask of Amontillado, [143], [178];
The Fall of the House of Usher, [96], [114], [117], [143];
The Masque of the Red Death, [142], [149], [155], [178];
The Murders in the Rue Morgue, [75], [222];
The Philosophy of Composition, [194];
The Pit and the Pendulum, [183];
The Raven, [194], [201];
The Tell-Tale Heart, [144], [178].
Pride and Prejudice, [131], [146].
Princess, The, [209].
Prodigal Son, The, [174], [201], [202], [203], [204].
Rabelais, François, [xiv], [18].
Raphael, [100].
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Raven, The, [194], [201].
Redgauntlet, [185].
Rembrandt, [140].
Richardson, Samuel, xv, [20], [127];
Pamela, [20].
Rip Van Winkle, [181].
Rise of Silas Lapham, The, [173].
Robinson Crusoe, [103], [122].
Romeo and Juliet, [14].
Romola, [28], [37], [114], [148].
Ronsard, Pierre, [71].
Rosmersholm, [147].
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, [71], [72].
Rostand, Edmond, [165];
Cyrano de Bergerac, [165].
Rousseau, Jean Jacques, [104];
La Nouvelle Héloise, [104].
Ruskin, John, [105], [213];
Modern Painters, [105];
Seven Lamps of Architecture, [213].
Ruth, Book of, [174].
Saint-Pierre, Bernardin de, [102];
Paul and Virginia, [102].
Salammbô, [114].
Sapho, [19], [79].
Sardou, Victorien, [165];
La Tosca, [165].
Scarlet Letter, The, [xxv], [15], [20], [29], [36], [71], [72], [73], [146], [223].
School for Scandal, The, [149].
Scott, Sir Walter, [xvi], [20], [21], [25], [26], [38], [42], [50], [58], [74], [86], [133], [145], [146], [149], [158], [185], [219];
Kenilworth, [149], [173];
Marmion, [158];
Redgauntlet, [185];

The Lady of the Lake, [158];
The Talisman, [146];
Wandering Willie’s Tale, [185];
Waverley, [20].
Seven Lamps of Architecture, The, [213].
Shakespeare, William, [xviii], [xix], [7], [8], [9], [10], [12], [13], [35], [49], [70], [71], [157], [165], [168], [169];
As You Like It, [12];
Hamlet, [xiv], [8], [9], [82], [165], [169];
Henry IV, [49];
King Lear, [82];
Macbeth, [7], [82], [153], [168];
Othello, [149], [169];
Romeo and Juliet, [14];
The Merchant of Venice, [68].
Shaw, George Bernard, [10].
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, [149];
The School for Scandal, [149].
Sidney, Sir Philip, [102], [225];
Arcadia, [102].
Silas Marner, [29], [67].
Sisterly Scheme, A, [152].
Smoke, xxv.
Smollett, Tobias, xv.
Soldiers Three, [127].
Sophocles, [xix], [xx], [184], [185];
Œdipus King, [xix].
Spenser, Edmund, [102], [112];
The Faerie Queene, [102], [161].
Spielhagen, Friedrich, [xxiv];
Technic of the Novel, [xxiv].
Spy, The, [146].
Steele, Sir Richard, [xv].
Stendhal, [xvii].
Sterne, Laurence, [xv].
Stevenson, Robert Louis, [xxi], [xxii], [16], [23], [28], [33], [36], [39], [40], [48], [50], [54], [56], [60], [61], [62], [70], [73], [85], [108], [113], [170], [173], [174], [179], [182], [187], [212], [223];
A College Magazine, [217];
A Gossip on Romance, [56], [108];
A Humble Remonstrance, [60], [70];
Kidnapped, [15], [122], [124];
Markheim, [xxii], [36], [48], [141], [154], [174], [215], [216], [217];
New Arabian Nights, [28], [85];
On Some Technical Elements of Style in Literature, [212];
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, [xxii], [33], [38], [126], [182];
The Beach of Falesá, [182];
The Lantern Bearers, [23];
The Master of Ballantrae, [92], [93], [94], [113], [126], [148], [170];
The Merry Men, [54];
The Treasure of Franchard, [173];
Treasure Island, [51], [52], [78], [122], [124].
Stimson, F. J., [219]; Mrs. Knollys, [219], [220].
Stockton, Frank R., [154];
The Lady or the Tiger?, [154], [183].
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, [xxii], [33], [38], [126], [182].
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Strike of the Iron-Workers, The, [159].
Study of Prose Fiction, A, [28], [182].
Substitute, The, [159].
Swift, Jonathan, xv, [18].
Tale of Two Cities, A, [68], [147].
Talisman, The, [146].
Tarkington, Booth, [111].
Tartufe, Le, [xix], [8].
Tasso, Torquato, [160], [162];
Jerusalem Liberated, [160].
Taylor, Bayard, [154];
Who Was She?, [154].
Tell-Tale Heart, The, [144], [178].
Teniers, David, the younger, [100].
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, [158], [209];
Maud, [158];
The Princess, [209].
Tess of the D’Urbervilles, [111].
Thackeray, William Makepeace, [xvii], [14], [21], [26], [27], [28], [63], [71], [74], [79], [97], [126], [134], [135], [185], [219];
Henry Esmond, [28], [122];
Pendennis, [14];
The Newcomes, [126], [173];
The Virginians, [28];
Vanity Fair, [xxv], [20], [71], [79], [97], [98], [146], [151].
Theocritus, xiv.
They, [22], [35], [87], [169], [205].
Three-Decker, The, [174].
Thrown Away, [192].
Tintoretto, [140].
Tolstoi, Count Leo, [xxi], [7];
Anna Karénina, [xxi];
The Kreutzer Sonata, [xxi];
War and Peace, [xxv].
Tom Jones, [xxv].
Tosca, La, [165].
Treasure Island, [51], [52], [78], [122], [124].
Treasure of Franchard, The, [173].
Trollope, Anthony, [41], [51].
Turgénieff, Ivan, [57], [58], [72], [157], [173];
Smoke, [xxv].
Turn of the Screw, The, [151], [181].
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, [163].
Vanity Fair, [xxv], [20], [71], [79], [97], [98], [146], [151].
Verrocchio, Andrea, [140].
Vicar of Wakefield, The, [84], [85].
Virgil, [161];
The Æneid, [160], [161], [162].
Virginians, The, [28].
Wagner, Richard, [147].
Wandering Willie’s Tale, [185].
War and Peace, [xxv].
Waverley, [20].
What Maisie Knew, [137].
White Old Maid, The, [148].
White, Stewart Edward, [111].
Whitman, Walt, [71], [79].
Who Was She?, [154].
Without Benefit of Clergy, [21], [106], [174], [192].
Wordsworth, William, [58].
Zola, Emile, [6], [29], [41], [111], [164];
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