Kirkland, Mrs., 5, 6, 193–210; biographical and critical note, 193; “A New Home--Who’ll Follow,” “Forest Life,” “Western Clearings,” 193; _The Bee-Tree_, 195–210 Kirkland, William, 193 Landor, Walter Savage, 30 “Letters from Arkansas” (Pike), 113 “Letters from the West” (Hall), 97 _Lidivine_ (Nodier), 30 _Ligeia_ (Poe), 16, 18 “Literati” (Poe), 193 Local color, 3–6, 9, 11, 12, 34, 97, 113, 193, 229, 303 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 143–151; biographical and critical note, 143; “Outre-Mer,” 143; _The Notary of Périgueux_, 145–151 Longus, 24, 25 _Love Letters of Smith, The_ (Bunner), 291–301 Lucian, 24 _Luck of Roaring Camp, The_ (Harte), 229, 230 Magazines, American, 2–5, 9, 34 (and see separate titles) _Main Street_ (Hawthorne), 14 _Maison Tellier, La_ (Maupassant), 230 _Man of Law, The_ (Chaucer), 25 _Marble Faun, The_ (Hawthorne), 15 Margaret of Angoulême, Queen of Navarre, the “Heptameron” of, 29 _Marjorie Daw_ (Aldrich), 34 _Mary Dyre_ (Sedgwick), 11 _Matron of Ephesus, The_ (Petronius), 24 Matthews, Brander, 8, 11, 22, 31, 212, 325; edition of Irving’s “Tales of a Traveller,” 8; “The Philosophy of the Short-Story,” 11, 22, 31, 212, 325 Maupassant, Guy de, 30, 34, 212, 230; _La maison Tellier_, 230; _Le Horla_, 212 Mediæval tales, 23–29, 31 Melodrama, tendency toward, in earlier American tales, 4, 5, 11; in O’Brien, 211; in Bret Harte, 230 Mérimée, Prosper, 30–34; narrative conciseness, 31; preferred _nouvelle_ to _conte_, 31, 34; and Poe, 32; _Carmen_, _Colomba_, _Arsène Guillot_, _L’enlèvement de la redoute_, _Tamango_, _La vision de Charles XI_, _Le vase étrusque_, 31; _La Vénus d’Ille_, 31, 32 _Messe de l’athée, La_ (Balzac), 32 _Methodist’s Story, The_, 4 _Metzengerstein_ (Poe), 16, 18, 22 Milesian tales, 24 “Mirror, The New York,” 177, 178 _Miss Eunice’s Glove_ (Webster), 247–266 Mitchell, Donald G., 1 Mitford, Mary Russell, 193 Moland and d’Héricault, 325 Monologue, Poe’s, 19 Moral tales, 4, 9, 10, 14, 30; allegory in, 10, 14; of Mme. de Genlis, 10; of Nodier, 10, 30; oriental setting for, 10 _Morella_ (Poe), 16, 17, 18, 21, 22 Morris, William, 25, 326 _Morte Amoureuse, La_ (Gautier), 33 _Mrs. Skaggs’s Husbands_ (Harte), 230 Musset, Alfred de, 33 _My Wife’s Tempter_ (O’Brien), 211 Narantsauk, 4 Nationality in literature, 3–6, 11, 12 “New England Galaxy, The,” 61 “New England Magazine, The,” 2, 131 “New Home, A,--Who’ll Follow” (Kirkland), 193 “New York Mirror, The,” 177, 178 _Nid de rossignols, Le_ (Gautier), 33