“Dashes at Life with a Free Pencil” (Willis), 178 Daudet, Alphonse, 30, 34 _David Swan_ (Hawthorne), 14 “Decameron, The,” 26–28 De Quincey, Thomas, 30 Descriptive sketches, 9, 12, 14, 31, 99, 113, 193 Dialogue and monologue, 19, 27 _Diamond Lens, The_ (O’Brien), 211 Dickens, Charles, influence of, on Bret Harte, 230; on O’Brien, 211 Dio Chrysostom, 25 Directness of movement, 18, 19, 20, 26, 27 Documentary interest, in fiction, 3, 30 Dominant, use of a single detail as, 16, 21, 22 Drama, influence of, on novel and short story, 26, 34 Dumas, Alexandre, influence of, on Bret Harte, 230 Edgeworth, Maria, 26 _Emigrant’s Daughter, The_, 5 _End of the Passage, The_ (Kipling), 212 _Enlèvement de la redoute, Le_ (Mérimée), 31 _Esmeralda, The_ (Wallace), 11 Essay tendency in tales, 6, 7, 10, 14, 15, 18, 32 _Ethan Brand_ (Hawthorne), 13 _Eve of the Fourth, The_ (Frederic), 305–324 Exposition in tales (_see_ Essay tendency) _Fall of the House of Usher, The_ (Poe), 18, 154–176 _Fancy’s Show Box_ (Hawthorne), 14 _Filleule du Seigneur, La_ (Nodier), 30 Flaubert, Gustave, 30 Flint, Timothy, 5 _Florus, King, and the Fair Jehane_, 25 _Fool’s Moustache, A_ (Webster), 245 “Forest Life” (Kirkland), 193 France, Anatole, 29 Frederic, Harold, 303–324; biographical and critical note, 303; “In the Sixties,” 303; _The Eve of the Fourth_, 305–324; _The Damnation of Theron Ware_, 303 Fromentin, Eugène, 3 Frontier, tales of the, 5, 10, 12, 97–127, 193–210, 229–243 Gautier, Théophile, 30, 33; _Le nid de rossignols_, _La mort amoureuse_, 33; preferred _nouvelle_ to _conte_, diffuseness, influence of Sterne, tendency to mere description, likeness to Poe, 33 Genlis, Mme. de, moral tales of, 10 “Gentleman’s Magazine and American Monthly Review,” Burton’s, 154 _German Student, The_ (Irving), 8 Gift-books (_see_ Annuals) Gilbert, E., 29, 325 Gilman, Mrs., 5 “Golden Era, The,” 229 Goldsmith, influence on Irving, 6 Gradation, 20–23, 32 (_see_ Sequence) _Great Good Place, The_ (James), 34 _Great Stone Face, The_ (Hawthorne), 14 Hale, Mrs., 5 Hall, James, 5, 9, 11, 12, 97–112; biographical and critical note, 97; “The Illinois Intelligencer,” “The Illinois Magazine,” “The Western Monthly Magazine,” “Letters from the West,” “Sketches of the West,” “Notes on the Western States,” “The Wilderness and the War Path,” 97; “The Western Souvenir,” 5, 97; _The Indian Hater_, _Pete Featherton_, 5; _The Village Musician_, 9; _The French Village_, 5, 9, 12, 99–112 Harmonisation, 16, 23 “Harper’s Monthly Magazine,” 212, 213 Hart, Walter Morris, 325