_Quatre talismans, Les_ (Nodier), 10 _Reminiscence of Federalism, A_ (Sedgwick), 11 Richepin, 34 _Rip Van Winkle_ (Irving), 7, 8, 37–58 _Roger Malvin’s Burial_ (Hawthorne), 13 Romances, short, 4, 10, 11, 25, 27; American, 4, 11; summary or scenario, 10, 25; pastoral, 25; mediæval, 25–28, 29 Romanticism, 4, 7, 8, 11 “Satyricon” (Petronius), 24 _Scarlet Letter, The_ (Hawthorne), 13, 14 Scenario, or summary romance, 10, 13, 24, 26, 27 Schlegel, Poe’s application of, 22 Scott, Sir Walter, influence of, 11, 37 Sedgwick, Charlotte M., _A Reminiscence of Federalism_, _Mary Dyre_, _The Chivalric Sailor_, 11 Sequence of incidents, 7, 8, 9, 10, 16, 20–23 (_see_ Gradation) Setting, 16 (_see_ Local color) _Seven Vagabonds, The_ (Hawthorne), 230 “Short Sixes” (Bunner), 291 Short story, in antiquity, 24, 25; in middle age, 25–29; in France, 29–35; in America, 1–23, 34, 35; in England, 33, 34; in other countries, 34; popularity of, 3, 34; distinct from tale and novel, 2, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 21, 23–27, 29–31; unity of, 7, 8, 11–13, 15–23; intensity of, 12, 13, 32 (_see_ Unity) “Short-Story, The Philosophy of the” (Matthews), 11, 12, 31, 212, 325 _Sights from a Steeple_ (Hawthorne), 14 Simple plots and complex, 13–15, 25, 26 Simplification of narrative mechanism, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 17–20, 23 (_see_ Unity) Singleness, 13, 15, 19, 31 (_see_ Unity) Situation, a single, in short story, 12, 26, 27, 28, 31 “Sketch Book, The” (Irving), 7, 8, 37 “Sketches of the West” (Hall), 97 _Smarra_ (Nodier), 30 _Snow Image, The_ (Hawthorne), 14 “Southern Literary Messenger, The,” 2, 33 “Spectator, The,” 6, 7, 9; influence on Irving, 6, 7; on the British novel, 6; in France, 6; on J. P. Kennedy, 9; in Virginia, 9 _Spectre Bridegroom, The_ (Irving), 7 Static narrative, and kinetic, 22 Sterne, Lawrence, influence on Gautier, 33 Stevenson, Robert Louis, 34 Stockton, Frank R., _The Wreck of the Thomas Hyke_, 34 _Sunday at Home_ (Hawthorne), 14 Suspense, 10, 16, 20 “Swallow Barn” (Kennedy), 9 Symbolism, 10, 14, 23, 230 Tale, a constant literary form, 25, 26; distinct from short story (which see); anecdote, 10, 24, 26, 29; summary or fragmentary, 13, 15, 23, 24, 27; moral, 4, 9, 10, 14, 30; historical, 4, 5, 9, 10, 11; yarn, 10, 34; oriental, 10, 25 Tales, ancient, 23–25; Milesian, 24; mediæval, 25–29, 31; modern French, 30; American, before 1835, 1–12 “Tales of a Traveller” (Irving), 8, 143 _Tamango_ (Mérimée), 31 Taylor, Bayard, 267–287; biographical and critical note, 267; _Who Was She?_, 269–287 _Tell-Tale Heart, The_ (Poe), 18 _Tennessee’s Partner_ (Harte), 230 Theocritus, the fifteenth idyl of, 25 Thoreau, Henry David, 1 Time-lapse, management of, 8, 11, 12, 13, 19–21, 27–29, 31, 32