typical of the prosperous man arising to wealth and honors. INDEX [_Titles of books and periodicals are in quotation marks; titles of separate stories, in italics_] Addison, a model for Irving, 6 Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 34 _Alice Doane’s Appeal_ (Hawthorne), 13 Allegory, 10, 14, 23, 230 _Ambitious Guest, The_ (Hawthorne), 14 American literature, brevity of, 1; wherein American, 1–4, 8, 35; American life in, 3–6, 11, 12 “American Monthly Magazine, The,” 113 _Amis and Amile_, 25 Anecdote, 10, 24, 26, 27, 29 Annuals, American, 2, 4, 5, 9–12, 18 Antonius Diogenes, 24 “Appleton’s Journal,” 245 Apuleius, 30 Aristides of Miletus, 24 Aristotle, “Poetics,” 13, 19, 20 _Arsène Guillot_ (Mérimée), 31 Artificiality in short story, 20, 32 “Ass, The,” of Lucian, 24 “Atlantic Monthly, The,” 247 “Atlantic Souvenir, The,” 2, 4, 5, 11 _Aucassin and Nicolette_, 25, 27, 31 Austin, William, 1, 10, 12, 59–95; biographical and critical sketch, 59; _Joseph Natterstrom_, 1, 10; _Peter Rugg_, 10, 12, 60–95 Bacon, Delia, 11 Balzac, Honoré de, 32–33; _El verdugo_, _Les proscrits_, _La messe de l’athée_, _Z. Marcas_, 32; form in, 32–33 Bandello, 29 Beckwith, Hiram W., 97 _Bee-Tree, The_ (Kirkland), 195–210 Beers, Henry A., 2, 177 _Ben Hadar_ (Paulding), 10 _Berenice_ (Poe), 2, 3, 16, 18, 21, 22, 33 Blackwell, Robert, 97 Boccaccio, “The Decameron,” 26–28, 30 “Boston Book, The,” 61 Brunetière, Ferdinand, 26 _Buckthorne and His Friends_ (Irving), 8 Bunner, Henry Cuyler, 289–301; biographical and critical note, 289; _The Third Figure of the Cotillion_, 289; _The Love Letters of Smith_, 291–301 Burton’s “Gentleman’s Magazine,” 154 Cable, George W., 5, 34; _Posson Jone_, 34 Cairns, William B., 2, 6, 325 Canby, Henry Seidel, 325 _Carmen_ (Mérimée), 31 _Catholic, The_, 4 “Cena Trimalchionis,” of Petronius, 24 “Cent nouvelles nouvelles, Les,” 28, 30 Character, development of, 13, 26, 27 Chassang, A., 325 Chaucer, 25, 28; _The Man of Law_, _The Pardoner_, _Troilus and Criseyde_, 25 _Chivalric Sailor, The_ (Sedgwick), 11 Clemens, Samuel L. (Mark Twain), 4, 34; _The Jumping Frog_, 34 Climax (_see_ Culmination) _Colomba_ (Mérimée), 31 _Combe à l’homme mort, La_ (Nodier), 29, 30 Compression of time, in short story, 8, 11, 12, 13, 19, 20, 27, 28, 33 (_see_ Unity) “Condensed Novels” (Harte), 229 Consistency of form, 9, 23, 26–28, 31, 32, 33 (_see_ Unity) _Conte_ and _nouvelle_, 30, 31, 33 “Contes de la Reine de Navarre” (_see_ “Heptameron”) Cooper, James Fenimore, 1, 5 Cornelius Sisenna, 24 Culmination, in short story, 7, 8, 10, 20–22, 26–28, 31, 32, 33 _Damnation of Theron Ware, The_ (Frederic), 303 Dana, Richard Henry, _Paul Felton_, 11 _Daphne, The_ (Webster), 245 _Daphnis and Chloe_, 24–25