Nodier, Charles, 10, 29, 30, 31; preferred _nouvelle_ to _conte_, 30, 31; similarity to Hawthorne, 30; _Les quatre talismans_, 10; _La combe à l’homme mort_, 29, 30; _Smarra_, _Jean François-les-bas-bleus_, _Lidivine_, _La filleule du Seigneur_, 30 “Notes on the Western States” (Hall), 97 _Nouvelle_, and _conte_, 30, 31, 33; and _roman_, 31 Novel and short story, 8, 12, 13, 15, 21, 25, 26 Novelette, 31 _Novella_, 27, 30 O’Brien, Fitz-James, 211–228; biographical and critical note, 211; _The Diamond Lens_, _The Wondersmith_, _Tommatoo_, _My Wife’s Tempter_, 211; _What Was It?_, 213–228 _Operation in Money, An_ (Webster), 245 Oriental tales, 10, 25 _Outcasts of Poker Flat, The_ (Harte), 231–243 “Outre-Mer” (Longfellow), 143 “Overland Monthly, The,” 229, 231 _Owner of “Lara,” The_ (Webster), 245 _Pardoner, The_ (Chaucer), 25 Pastoral romance, 25 _Paul Felton_ (Dana), 11 Paulding, James K., _Ben Hadar_, 10 Peck, Harry Thurston, 326 “Pencillings by the Way” (Willis), 177 Periodicals (_see_ Annuals, Magazines) Perry, Bliss, 326 _Pete Featherton_ (Hall), 5 _Peter Rugg, the Missing Man_ (Austin), 10, 12, 60–95 Petronius, “Cena Trimalchionis,” “Satyricon,” 24 _Philip of Pokanoket_ (Irving), 9 Picaresque story, 24 Pike, Albert, 12, 113–127; biographical and critical note, 113; “Prose Sketches and Poems,” 12, 115; “Letters from Arkansas,” 113; “Hymns to the Gods,” 113; _The Inroad of the Nabajo_, 115–127 Plot (_see_ Compression, Culmination Novel, Short story, Time-lapse, Unity) Plots, simple or complex, 12, 13 Poe, Edgar Allan, 3, 4, 9, 12, 15–23, 32, 33, 153–176, 193, 211; genius for form, 9, 16; preoccupation with structure, 16; review of Hawthorne, 14, 22; characters, 16; detective stories, 16, 20; harmonisation, 16, 23; refrain, 16, 17, 21; vocabulary, 16, 17; cadence, 16; suppression of introductions, 18, 19; simplification for directness, 19; setting, 19; habit of monologue, 19; gradation, 20–23; artificiality, 20, 32; grotesque, 22; kinetic narrative, and static, 22; conception of unity, 22, 23; application of Schlegel, 22; review of Mrs. Sigourney, 22; symbolism, 23; and Hawthorne, 18, 20, 23; and Mérimée, 32; and Gautier, 33; and O’Brien, 211; “Literati,” 193; _Berenice_, 2, 3, 16, 18, 21, 22, 33; _Metzengerstein_, 16, 18, 22; _Morella_, 16, 17, 18, 21, 22; _Ligeia_, 16, 18; _King Pest_, 18, 22; _The Tell-Tale Heart_, 18; _The Fall of the House of Usher_, 18, 154–176 “Poetics,” of Aristotle, 13, 19, 20 “Portfolio, The,” 97 _Posson Jone_ (Cable), 34 Poushkin, 34 Premonition, 21, 31 _Pride of the Village, The_ (Irving), 7 _Proscrits, Les_ (Balzac), 32 “Prose Sketches and Poems” (Pike), 12, 114 “Puck,” 289