III. TALE OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY AND OF MECHANICAL INVENTION--Relation to imaginary voyages--Essential elements--Kind of stories included in this type--Suggestions on how to write the type--Examples 194 IV. THE DETECTIVE STORY AND OTHER TALES OF PURE PLOT--The detective story: connection with stories of ingenuity--Poe and Doyle--Other stories of plot--Romance--A few suggestions--Examples 225 CHAPTER IV. THE ENTERTAINING GROUP 255-344 I. TALE OF PROBABLE ADVENTURE--Characteristics and definition--How to write a probable adventure--A warning--Examples 255 II. THE SOCIETY STORY--Definition--Pastoral Romance--Suggestions on writing a society story--Examples 277 III. THE HUMOROUS STORY--Definition--Fableaux--Picaresque romance--Difference between a humorous story and a comic anecdote--Examples 299 IV. THE OCCASIONAL STORY--The spirit of the occasional story--Its masters--Suggestions for subjects--Examples 313 CHAPTER V. THE INSTRUCTIVE GROUP 345-394 I. THE MORAL STORY--Differentiated from the symbolic-didactic group--Great authors who have written this type: Hawthorne, Johnson, Voltaire, Tolstoy, Cervantes--What to put in and what to leave out--Examples 345 II. THE PEDAGOGICAL NARRATIVE--Definition--Some famous pedagogical books--Froebel--Examples 361 III. THE STORY OF PRESENT DAY REALISM--What realism is--The realistic school--Suggestions on characters to treat--Examples 370 CHAPTER VI. THE ARTISTIC GROUP: THE REAL SHORT-STORY 395-478 I. THE PSYCHOLOGICAL WEIRD TALE--Origin--The School of Terror--Poe, Stevenson, Maupassant, and others--Suggestions on writing a weird tale--Material and method--Form--Examples 398 II. STORY THAT EMPHASIZES CHARACTER AND ENVIRONMENT--Kipling--Mary E. Wilkins Freeman--Hamlin Garland--Bret Harte--Suggestions and precautions--The "Character": Overbury and Hall--Novel of Manners--Trollope's Cathedral Town Studies--Examples 426 III. STORY THAT EMPHASIZES CHARACTER AND EVENTS--Difference between character-place story and character-events story--Component elements of this type--A scrapbook suggestion--Other suggestions--Examples 455 Part II. Narratives of Actual Events CHAPTER VII. PARTICULAR ACCOUNTS 479-556 I. INCIDENT--Definition--How to tell an incident--Examples 480 II. ANECDOTE--Meaning of the term--Ana--Collection of anecdotes--How to write an original anecdote--Examples 490