III. EYE-WITNESS ACCOUNT--What it is and how to write it--An ancient eye-witness account--Literary eyewitness accounts--Examples 499 IV. TALE OF ACTUAL ADVENTURE--The one necessary element--Suggestions for writing--Examples 512 V. THE TRAVELER'S SKETCH--What a traveler's sketch includes--Great travel books--Fielding's gentle warning--A motto for the narrator--Examples 530 CHAPTER VIII. PERSONAL ACCOUNTS 557-611 I. JOURNAL AND DIARY--The two distinguished--The range of journals--"Vida del Gran Tamurlan"--Great diaries--How to write journal and diary--Examples 557 II. AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND MEMOIRS--Distinction--Cellini, Franklin, and others--Selection and coherence--Examples 572 III. BIOGRAPHY--Beginning in England of literary biography--Great biographies in English--Writer and subject--Beginning, emphasis, and attitude--Outline for a life--Examples 590 CHAPTER IX. IMPERSONAL ACCOUNTS 612-645 I. ANNALS--What annals are--Famous old annals--Stow--Suggestions on material--Examples 613 II. CHRONICLES--Definition--Froissart, Ayala, "General Chronicle of Spain"--Saxo Grammaticus--Holinshed--True relations--Examples 626 BIBLIOGRAPHY 647-660 INDEX 661-672 LIST OF STORIES NARRATIVES OF FICTITIOUS EVENTS =Myths= PAGE The World's Creation and the Birth of Wainamoinen. From the _Kalevala_ 14 _Students' Themes_-- Origin of the Moon Emanuel Baja 16 The First Cocoanut Tree Manuel Reyes 18 The Lotus Ida Treat 21 =Legends= Kenach's Little Woman William Canton 28 _Students' Themes_-- A Legend of Gapan Teofilo Corpus 36 Manca: a Legend of the Incas Dorothea Knoblock 38 The Place of the Red Grass Sixto Guico 42 =Fairy Tales= The Boggart From the English 55 _Students' Themes_-- Cafre and the Fisherman's Wife Benito Ebuen 57 The Friendship of an Asuang and a Duende Emanuel Baja 58 A Tianac Frightens Juan Santiago Ochoa 61 The Black Cloth of the Calumpang Eusebio Ramos 63