Harte, Francis Bret, 4, 229–243; biographical and critical note, 229; “Condensed Novels,” 229; _The Luck of Roaring Camp_, 229, 230; _Johnson’s Old Woman_, _Mrs. Skaggs’s Husbands_, _The Iliad of Sandy Bar_, _Tennessee’s Partner_, 230; _The Outcasts of Poker Flat_, 231–243; influence of Dickens, 230; of Dumas, 230; tendency to melodrama, 230; local truth, 229; symbolism, 230 Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 2, 5, 9, 10, 12–15, 16, 18, 23, 30, 31, 32, 59, 129–142, 230; bent not toward short story, 12–15, 31; allegory, symbolism, 14, 23, 230; vocabulary, 16; tendency toward description, 14; toward essay, 14, 15, 18, 30; expository introductions, 18; unity compared with Poe’s, 23; likeness to Nodier, 30; “Twice-Told Tales,” 131; _The Gentle Boy_, 12; _The Wives of the Dead_, 12, 13; _Roger Malvin’s Burial_, _Alice Doane’s Appeal_, _Ethan Brand_, 13; _The Scarlet Letter_, 13, 14; _Sunday at Home_, _Sights from a Steeple_, _Main Street_, _The Village Uncle_, _The Ambitious Guest_, _Fancy’s Show Box_, _David Swan_, _The Snow Image_, _The Great Stone Face_, 14; _The Marble Faun_, 15; _The White Old Maid_, 13, 131–142; _The Seven Vagabonds_, 230 “Heptameron, The,” of the Queen of Navarre, 29 _Hermit of the Prairies, The_, 5 “Hermite de la Chaussée d’Antin, Le,” 6 Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 59 Historical tales, 4, 5, 9, 10, 11 Hoax-story, 10, 34 _Horla, Le_ (Maupassant), 212 _Iliad of Sandy Bar, The_ (Harte), 230 “Illinois Intelligencer, The,” 97 “Illinois Magazine, The,” 97 “In the Sixties” (Frederic), 305 _Indian Hater, The_ (Hall), 5 _Inlet of Peach Blossoms, The_ (Willis), 179–191 _Inroad of the Nabajo, The_ (Pike), 115–127 Intensity, in short story, 12, 22, 32, 34 Introductions to tales, 7, 10, 17, 18, 19, 31, 99, 195 Irving, Washington, 1, 4, 5, 6–9, 18, 29, 37–58, 143, 289; looseness of form, 7, 8; characterisation, 7; unity of tone, 7; influence of, 8, 9, 143, 289; introductions, 18; “The Sketch Book,” 7; “Tales of a Traveller,” 8, 143; _The Wife_, _The Widow and Her Son_, _The Pride of the Village_, _The Spectre Bridegroom_, 7; _Buckthorne and His Friends_, _The German Student_, 8; _Philip of Pokanoket_, 9; _Rip Van Winkle_, 7, 8, 37–58 Jacobs, Joseph, 25 James, Henry, 34 _Jean François-les-bas-bleus_ (Nodier), 30 _Johnson’s Old Woman_ (Harte), 230 _Joseph Natterstrom_ (Austin), 1, 10 Jouy, M. de, 6 _Jumping Frog, The_ (Mark Twain), 34 Keepsakes (_see_ Annuals) Kennedy, John Pendleton, 5, 9; “Swallow Barn,” 9 Kinetic narrative, and static, 22 _King Pest_ (Poe), 18, 22 Kipling, Rudyard, 34, 212; _The End of the Passage_, 212