The American Short Story, C. Alphonso Smith. Ginn (1912). An American reprint of one of the author’s lectures delivered as Roosevelt Professor at the University of Berlin.
The Art and Business of Story Writing, W. B. Pitkin. Macmillan (1912).
The American Short Story, Elias Lieberman. Editor Co. (1912).
The Art of Story Writing, J. Berg Esenwein and Mary Davoren Chambers. Home Correspondence School (1913). A study of the shorter fictional forms—the anecdote, fable, parable, tale, sketch, and short-story—with outlines for study and instruction.
The Technique of the Mystery Story, Carolyn Wells. Home Correspondence School (1913).
Art in Short Story Narration, Henry Albert Phillips. Stanhope-Dodge (1913).
The Art of Writing, Preface to “The Nigger of the Narcissus,” Joseph Conrad. Doubleday (1914).
Short Stories in the Making, Robert Wilson Neal. Oxford University Press (1914).
The Author’s Craft, Arnold Bennett. Doran (1914)
The Art of the Short Story, Carol Grabo. Scribner (1914).