To give Spontaneity.

  1. External Form of Composition (p. [296]).
  2. Marks for the Correction of Compositions (p. [300]).
  3. Simple Rules for Punctuation (pp. [301]-[309]).
  4. Forms of Discourse. Definitions (pp. [1]-[7]).
  5. Choice of Subject (pp. [8]-[12]).
  6. Study of Narration (pp. [13]-[48]).
    1. Definition and General Discussion.
    2. Narration without Plot.
      Interest the Essential Feature.
    3. Narration with Plot.
      1. Selection of Main Incident of first Importance.
        It gives to the story
        Unity,
        ridding it of
        Long Introductions and Conclusions,
        Tedious Enumerations, and
        Irrelevant Details.
      2. Arrangement of Material.
        Close of Story contains Main Incident.
        Opening of Story contains Characters, Place, and Time.
        Incidents generally follow in Order of Time.
      3. Movement.
      4. Use of Description in Narration.
      5. Some General Considerations.

Literature.

The Great Stone Face, The Gentle Boy, The Gray Champion, Roger Malvin’s Burial, and other Stories. Hawthorne.

Tales of a Wayside Inn. Longfellow.

The Gold Bug. Poe.

[xxi] Marmion, or The Lady of the Lake. Scott.

A Christmas Carol, or The Cricket on the Hearth. Dickens.

The Vision of Sir Launfal, and other Narrative Poems. Lowell.

An Incident of the French Camp, Hervé Riel, The Pied Piper, How they brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix. Browning.