“Token, The,” 2, 5 _Tommatoo_ (O’Brien), 211 Totality of interest, Poe’s principle of, 22 _Troilus and Criseyde_ (Chaucer), 25 Unities, the classical, 19, 20, 34, 289 Unity, in short story, of purpose, 8, 16–23; of tone, 7, 16–19, 22, 23; of form, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13, 16–19, 22, 23, 25–29, 31–33, 59, 113, 143, 177, 193, 211, 230, 289; of time, 8, 11, 12, 13, 19–21, 27–29, 31, 32; of place, 12, 13, 19, 27, 29, 32; by suppression, 19, 32; and artificiality, 20, 32 _Vase étrusque, Le_ (Mérimée), 31 _Vénus d’Ille, La_ (Mérimée), 31 _Verdugo, El_ (Balzac), 32 _Village Uncle, The_ (Hawthorne), 14 _Vision de Charles XI, La_ (Mérimée), 31 Voltaire, 10 Wallace, Godfrey, _The Esmeralda_, 11 Webster, Albert Falvey, 245–266; biographical and critical note, 245; _An Operation in Money_, _The Daphne_, _A Fool’s Moustache_, _The Owner of Lara_, 245; _Miss Eunice’s Glove_, 247–266 “Weekly Californian, The,” (Harte), 229 “Western Clearings” (Kirkland), 193, 195 “Western Monthly Magazine, The” (Hall), 97 “Western Monthly Review, The,” 5 “Western Souvenir, The” (Hall), 5, 97, 99 _What Was It?_ (O’Brien), 213–228 _White Old Maid, The_ (Hawthorne), 13, 131–142 Whitman, Walt, 3 _Who Was She?_ (Taylor), 269–287 _Widow and Her Son, The_ (Irving), 7 _Wife, The_ (Irving), 7 “Wilderness and the War Path, The” (Hall), 97 Wilkins, Mary E., 11 Willis, Nathaniel Parker, 177–191, 193; biographical and critical note, 177; “Pencillings by the Way,” “Dashes at Life with a Free Pencil,” 177; _The Inlet of Peach Blossoms_, 179–191 _Wives of the Dead, The_ (Hawthorne), 12, 13 _Wondersmith, The_ (O’Brien), 211 _Wreck of the Thomas Hyke, The_ (Stockton), 34 Yarn, 10, 34 _Z. Marcas_ (Balzac), 32 PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Transcriber’s Notes Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed. Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanced. Footnotes, originally at the bottoms of the pages that referenced them, have been collected, sequentially renumbered, and placed at the end of the book. The index was not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references.