PAGE PREFACE v FOREWORD vii CHAPTER I EXPOSITORY NARRATIVE 1 _David Starr Jordan_ The Story of a Salmon 3 _William Stearns Davis_ A Medieval Wedding 11 _John Corbin_ A Day in an Oxford College 20 _Eileen Power_ The Peasant Bodo 28 Selected Bibliography of Expository Narrative 47 CHAPTER II INCIDENTS 48 _Incidents from the Life of Lord Frederick Hamilton_ 49 _Marguerite Audoux_ The Fiancée 52 _Mark Twain_ Jim Wolf and the Cats 56 _Stewart Edward White_ The Hunting Trip 59 Selected Bibliography of Incidents 70 CHAPTER III HISTORICAL NARRATIVE 71 _Thomas Babington Macaulay_ The Black Hole of Calcutta 73 _James Anthony Froude_ The Marriage of Henry and Anne Boleyn 78 _Francis Parkman_ The Hardihood of La Salle 83 Selected Bibliography of Historical Narrative 92 CHAPTER IV HISTORICAL FICTION 94 _James Branch Cabell_ The Story of the Fox-Brush 96 Selected Bibliography of Historical Fiction 117 CHAPTER V TALES AND LEGENDS 118 _Selma Lagerlöf_ In Nazareth 122 _William Canton_ The Song of the Minster 127 _Anatole France_ Juggler to Our-Lady 132 _James Stevens_ Paul Bunyon 139 _Selma Lagerlöf_ The Legend of the Christmas Rose 156 Selected Bibliography of Legends and Tales 175 CHAPTER VI FAIRY TALES, ALLEGORIES, PARABLES AND FABLES 176