Types of Prose Narratives: A Text-Book for the Story Writer

by Harriott Ely Fansler

Ticknor discusses in detail the origin, subjects, and character of the Spanish chronicles, in his History of Spanish Literature, Vol. I. pp. 166-228 (fourth American edition, Houghton, Mifflin & Co.). For account of early French chronicles see Saintsbury's Short History of French Literature, Book I, chapter XI (Oxford, 1907).

Blair and Robertson's The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, in 55 vols. (A. H. Clark Co., 1905) contains many early Spanish relations translated into English. Among the notable ones are Loarca's Relacion (vol. 5), Chirino's Relacion (vols. 12-13), Morga's Sucesos (vols. 15-16), Medina's Historia de la Orden de S. Agustin (vols. 23-24).

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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].

FOOTNOTES:

[1] According to Skeat.

[2] Friend, don't poke your nose into another's business which you don't understand.

[3] A Tagalog word meaning husk; but here it is used as an adjective husky, and signifies a political party.