The Writing of the Short Story

series of unconnected happenings

incident, description, character, mood, as the first elements of the narrative form.

narrative having literary quality.

Loveliness" is especially valuable for illustrating methods and devices for making a simple theme dramatically interesting. Students are required to mark stories with the symbols and discuss them with reference to the principles of which this little book is an exposition, but no recitation on the book itself is required.

Professor L. A. Sherman of the University of Nebraska.

without our experiences, we should hardly have acquired any real sense of the beautiful;

they may be classified for our purposes under four heads: Matters of Fact, Experience, Beauty, Truth.