INDEX OF ILLUSTRATIVE SELECTIONS

• Amiel's Journal, "Mozart and Beethoven", 277-278
• Antin, Mary, The Promised Land, "The Making of an American", 186-189
• Atlantic Monthly, The Contributor's Club, "The Privileges of Age", 245-247
• Aumonier, Stacy, "Solemn-Looking Blokes" (Century Magazine), 29-33
• Bagehot, Walter, Works, vol. III, "A Constitutional Statesman", 227-229
• Belloc, Hilaire, First and Last, "On a Great Wind", 244
• Bradford, Gamaliel, Confederate Portraits, "Judah P. Benjamin", 264
• Brooke, Rupert, Collected Poems, "The Great Lover", 234-235
• Bullard, F. Lauriston, Famous War Correspondents, "A Definition of the Correspondent", 78
• Burdick, Francis M, The Essentials of Business Law—
  • "Definition of the Clearing-House", 76
  • "Definition of Sale", 105
• Burroughs, John, Birds and Bees, "An Idyl of the Honey-Bee", 48-55
  • Outline of "An Idyl of the Honey-Bee", 64-66
  • Birds and Poets, "Emerson's Literary Quality", 224
  • Leaf and Tendril, "A Breath of April", 247-249
• Burton, Richard, Little Essays in Literature and Life, "The Nature of the Informal Essay", 243-244
• Butler, Samuel, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler, "A Group of Definitions", 109
• Cannon, J. G, Clearing-Houses, "Classification of Clearing-Houses", 140
• Carlyle, Thomas, Essay on Biography, Selection from, 275-276
  • Sartor Resartus, "The Entepfuhl Road", 40
• Century Magazine, "The Hydraulic Cartridge", 161-162
  • "The Phonopticon", 171-172
• Corbin, John, An American at Oxford, "How to Handle a Punt", 163-164
• Corbin, T. W, Engineering of To-day, "Cargo Steamers", 203-205
  • "The Oxygen Blow-Pipe", 161
  • "Launching the Neptune", 178-181
• Cram, R. A., The Heart of Europe, "Definition of the Heart", 104
• Croly, Herbert, The Promise of American Life, "The American Business Man", 197-199
• Dilley, Arthur U, Oriental Rugs, "A Classification of Rugs", 119-122
• Eliot, George, The Mill on the Floss, "The Scenery of the Rhone", 124-125
• Emerson, Ralph Waldo, Conduct of Life, "Fate", 27-28; 36-37
  • Nature, Addresses, and Lectures, "A Definition of Conservative and Innovator", 93-95
  • Society and Solitude, "Definition of Civilization in America", 98-99
• Escott, T. H. S, Great Victorians, "Balfour", 271
• Gardiner, A. G., Prophets, Priests, and Kings, "Balfour", 148
  • "King Edward VII", 148-149
  • "Lord Morley", 19
  • "Thomas Hardy", 149-150
• Garland, Hamlin, A Son of the Middle Border, a sentence from, 45
• Gissing, George, The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft—
  • "Apples for Diet", 21-22
  • "A Definition of Art", 7
  • "A Definition of Poverty", 84-85
  • "English Cooking", 210-211
  • "Military Drill", 225-226
  • "The Sportswoman", 128-129
  • "The 'Tempest'", 213-214
  • "Vegetarianism", 222-223
• Green, J. R., Short History of the English People, "Estimate of the Character of Elizabeth", 122-123
• Greenough and Kittredge, Words and Their Ways in English Speech, "The Process of Radiation", 181-183
• Haweis, Rev. Mr., Music and Morals, "The Character of J. R. Green", 268-269
• Hawthorne, Nathaniel, Our Old Home, "English Weather", 126-128
• Henderson, W. H., What is Good Music—
  • "Criticism of Musical Performances", 230
  • "The Modern Orchestra", 152-153
• Howells, W. D., A Boy's Town, "The Difference Between Boys and Men", 107
• Hungerford, Edward, The Personality of American Cities, "Boston", 68-69
• Judy, A. M., From the Study to the Farm, "The Farmer's Life", 150-151
• Lounsbury, T. R., English Spelling and Spelling Reform, "Final e", 205-208
• Lucke, C. E., Power, "The Mechanical Engineer", 98
  • "The Problem of Power Machinery", 137
  • "Water Power", 151-152
• Masefield, John, Gallipoli, "The Horror of the Fight", 69-70
• Morley, John, Miscellanies, vol. I, "The Distinction Between the Poetic and the Scientific Spirit", 105-106
• Morman, J. B., The Principles of Rural Credit, "Amortization", 85-86
• Pollak, Gustav, Fifty Years of American Idealism—
  • "Jingo Morality", 220-222
  • "Lowell at St. James", 193-194
  • "Moral Atmosphere", 91-93
  • "Responsible Statesman", 87
• Prelini, Charles, Dredges and Dredging, "The Operation of Dredges", 170
• Royce, Josiah, "Nietzsche" (Atlantic Monthly), 131
• Russell, Bertrand,
  • National Independence and Internationalism—
  • "National Sentiment", 226-227
  • "State and Nation", 89-90
  • Why Men Fight, "Impulse and Desire", 132-135
• Sainte-Beuve, "Definition of a Classic", 91
• Scientific American, "The Catskill Water Supply", 185-186
• Scribner's Magazine, The Point of View, "The New Poetry", 200-201
• Sedgwick, H. D., The New American Type, "Honor", 108
• Shakespeare, William, King Henry IV, "Bardolph on 'Accommodate'", 81-82
• Sharp, Dallas Lore, The Hills of Hingham, "The Carpet Layer", 173-174
• Shaw, G. B.,
  • Dramatic Opinions and Essays—
  • "The Odds Against Shakespeare", 116-117
  • Sanity of Art, "Definition of Artist", 103
  • "Indispensability of Law", 153-156
  • "Passion", 146-147
  • "Pattern Designers and Dramatic Composers", 111-112
  • Society and Superior Brains—
  • "Ability that Gives Value for Money", 85
  • "Superiority of Status", 109-110
• Slicer, T. R., From Poet to Premier, "O. W. Holmes", 272
• Standard Dictionary, Definition of "Correspondent", 78
• Stevenson, R. L., "Pulvis et Umbra", 55-57
  • "The sun upon my shoulders", 45
• Talbot, F. A., The Making of a Great Canadian Railway—
  • "The Stone Boat", 165
  • "The Track Layer", 166-168
• Taylor, B. L., The Line o' Type Column, "Highbrow," etc., 102
• Thackeray, W. M., The English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century, "Oliver Goldsmith", 285-294
• Warner, Frances L., "The Amateur Chessman" (From The Point of View, Scribner's Magazine), 249-252
• Webster's New International Dictionary, Definition of "Art", 6
  • A series of definitions, 100-101
• Wendell, Barrett, English Composition, "Carlyle's Frederick the Great", 279-280
• Weston, E. M., Rock Drills, "Hammer Drills", 115-116
  • "Tappet Valve Drills", 219-220
• Wister, Owen, Quack Novels and Democracy, "The Quack Novel", 88-89

INDEX

• Ability of the critic to analyze, 192-194.
• Adaptation of treatment to subject, 6.
• Addison, Joseph, 233-236.
• Aids in gaining clearness in Mechanisms, Processes, and Organizations, 169-172.
• Aids in gaining interest in Mechanisms, Processes, and Organizations, 172-175.
• Aids in solving the problem in Expository Biography, 261-265.
• Amiel, Frederic, 277.
• Amount of expository writing, 2.
• Analysis, 8, 113-143;
  • definition of, 113;
  • enumeration as one kind of informal analysis, 129;
  • equation as one kind of informal analysis, 130;
  • formal analysis, 118;
  • informal analysis, 129-137;
  • kinds of analysis, the two, 115-118;
  • kinds of informal analysis, 129-137;
  • object of informal analysis, 124;
  • the principles of analysis, 138-143;
  • relationship as a form of informal analysis, 131;
  • statement of a problem as a form of informal analysis, 136;
  • statement of significance as a form of informal analysis, 130;
  • the two virtues of analysis, 114.
• Analyzing the character in Expository Biography, 270-275.
• Antin, Mary, 189.
• Appreciative method of criticism, 209-215.
• Aumonier, Stacy, 29.
• Bagehot, Walter, 229.
• Balfour, Arthur James, 273.
• Barrie, Sir J. M., 241, 263.
• Beethoven, Ludwig van, 278.
• Belloc, Hilaire, 239, 244.
• Biography, Expository, 257-296;
  • aid in solving the problem of, 261-265;
  • analyzing the character of the hero, 270-275;
  • beliefs of the hero, 273;
  • choice of events in hero's life for, 276-277;
  • defining the hero's character, 266-270;
  • deeds of the hero, 274;
  • events in hero's life, use of, 275-280;
  • friends of the hero, 274;
  • heredity of the hero, 270-272;
  • interests of the hero, 272;
  • kinds of, 257;
  • lesson, danger of making one, 282;
  • life problem of the hero, 258-260;
  • object of expository biography, 258;
  • problem, the chief, of expository biography, 258-261;
  • problem of telling the truth, 280-281;
  • process of solving the problem, 266-274;
  • relation of events to personality, 277-278;
  • relation of hero to society and times, 278-280;
  • rhetorical form of expository biography, 282-285;
  • rhetorical value of events, 280.
• B. L. T., 102.
• Boswell, James, 267, 279, 281.
• Bradford, Gamaliel, 264, 267, 281.
• Breadth of interest in writer of Informal Essays, 233-234.
• Brooke, Rupert, 234.
• Brooks, Sidney, 43.
• Brown, John, 238, 241.
• Browne, Sir Thomas, 262.
• Bullard, F. Lauriston, 78.
• Burdick, Francis M., 76, 105.
• Burroughs, John, 40, 41, 47, 224, 238, 247.
• Burton, Richard, 243.
• Butler, Samuel, 109.
• Byron, Lord, 200, 274.
• Cannon, J. G., 140.
• Carlyle, Thomas, 40, 258, 265, 272, 275, 279.
• Catalogs, use of, 301-302.
• Cause for stupidity in expository writing, 4, 25.
• Cause, method of showing, in definition, 97.
• Cautions about definitions, 80.
• Cavour, 266.
• Centralization, finding the root principle in mechanisms, etc., 159-162.
• Chesterton, Gilbert, 240, 241.
• Cicero, 12.
• Classification, 8, 117.
• Clearness:
  • aids in gaining, 169-172;
  • in explaining mechanisms, etc., 157, 162.
• Coleridge, Samuel T., 215.
• Comparison and contrast, method of in defining, 86.
• Controlling purpose:
  • definition of, 16;
  • emotional reaction to, 26-33;
  • practical use of, 39-47;
  • proper use of, 33-38;
  • source of, 16-26;
  • source of in reader's attitude, 22-25;
  • source of in subject, 16-18;
  • source of in writer's attitude, 18-22;
  • stated in one sentence, 37;
  • value, relative, of sources for, 25.
• Cooper, James F., 196.
• Corbin, John, 164.
• Corbin, T. W., 161, 181, 205.
• Cowley, 232.
• Cram, Ralph Adams, 104.
• Critic, the:
  • ability to analyze, 192-194;
  • common sense, 195;
  • knowledge of the general field of criticism, 194-195;
  • open-mindedness, 195-196.
• Criticism, 190-217;
  • ability to analyze, possessed by the critic, 192-194;
  • common sense of critic, 195;
  • criticism and comment, 91;
  • definition of, 190;
  • diction in, 216-217;
  • knowledge of general field, possessed by critic, 194-195;
  • methods:
  • appreciative, 209-215;
  • historical, 196-202;
  • standards, 202-209;
  • open-mindedness of critic, 195-196;
  • practical helps for writing, 215-217;
  • range of criticism, 191.
• Croly, Herbert, 129, 199.
• Crothers, S. M., 237, 240.
• Da Vinci, Leonardo, 273.
• Deeds of hero in Expository Biography, 274.
• Defining the character of the hero in Expository Biography, 266-270.
• Definition of analysis, 113;
  • of criticism, 190;
  • of informal essay, 231.
• Definition: 8, 73-112;
  • cautions, general, about, 80;
  • definition of, 73;
  • differentia and genus, 77;
  • difficulty in discovering genus, 74;
  • methods of defining:
  • of comparison or contrast, 86;
  • of division, 90;
  • of elimination, 95;
  • of illustration, 83;
  • of repetition, 93;
  • of showing origin, cause, and effect, 97;
  • process of definition, 74;
  • restricting the genus, 77;
  • two classes of, 78.
• Demosthenes, 12.
• De Quincey, 242.
• Dictionaries, use of, 302.
• Dilley, Arthur U., 122.
• Douglas, Stephen A., 274.
• Economy, in note-taking, 298-299.
• Edwards, Jonathan, 27.
• Elimination as a method in definition, 95.
• Eliot, George, 124-125.
• Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1, 27, 93, 95, 98, 224, 271, 282.
• Emotions, the, and the controlling purpose, 26-33.
• Encyclopædias, use of, 302.
• Enumeration as a form of informal analysis, 129.
• Equation as a form of informal analysis, 130.
• Escott, T. H. S., 271.
• Essay. See Informal Essay.
• Events in hero's life for expository biography, 275-280.
• Exposition:
  • amount of, 2;
  • answers questions, 1, 2;
  • causes for stupidity in writing exposition, 4, 25;
  • emotions and exposition, 27;
  • problem, the, in writing, 11;
  • success of, 12;
  • task of, 9-10;
  • truth of, 7.
• Formal analysis, 118.
• Franz, Robert, 276.
• Freeman, Mrs. M. E. W., 199.
• Friends of the hero in expository biography, 274.
• Gardiner, A. G., 19, 148, 149, 150.
• Garland, Hamlin, 45.
• Gissing, George, 7, 21, 84, 103, 128, 209, 214, 223, 226.
• Goethe, Johann, 270.
• Goldsmith, Oliver, 267, 284, 285.
• Gray, 270.
• Green, J. R., 28, 268.
• Greenough and Kittredge, 183.
• Hardy, Thomas, 294.
• Haweis, the Rev. Mr., 268.
• Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 126.
• Hazlitt, 195, 231, 232, 236, 238, 243.
• Henderson, W. H., 153, 230.
• Henry, Patrick, 12.
• Heredity in expository biography, 270-272.
• Historical method of criticism, 196-202.
• Holmes, O. W., 271-272.
• Howells, W. D., 107.
• Humor in the informal essay, 241-242.
• Hungerford, Edward, 69.
• Hunt, Leigh, 238.
• Husband, Joseph, 239.
• Huxley, Thomas, 44.
• Illustration as a method of definition, 83.
• Imaginative sympathy in expository biography, 261-265.
• Informal analysis, 123-138.
• Informal Essay, 231-244;
  • breadth of interest in author of, 233-234;
  • definition of, 231;
  • humor in, 241-242;
  • nature as subject for, 238-239;
  • not too exhaustive, 242;
  • not too serious, 240-242;
  • not too rhetorically strict, 242-243;
  • people as subjects for, 237-238;
  • personal nature, 232-233;
  • range of subject, 237;
  • things as subjects for, 239-240.
• Interest in writing, 2;
  • aids to gain, in mechanisms, processes and organizations, 172-175;
  • of two kinds, 3;
  • relation to underlying thought, 8.
• Interpreting and reporting, 5.
• James, William, 4, 44, 266.
• Jefferies, Richard, 239.
• Jewett, Miss S. O., 199.
• Johnson, Dr. Samuel, 81, 233.
• Judicial criticism, here treated as criticism by standards, 202-209.
• Judy, A. M., 151.
• Labouchere, Henry, 9.
• Lamb, Charles, 6, 26, 232, 235, 242, 262.
• Lamb, Mary, 259.
• Lee, Robert E., 274, 277.
• Libraries:
  • catalogues of, 301-302;
  • dictionaries, 302;
  • encyclopædias, 302;
  • use of, 301-304.
• Lincoln, Abraham, 2, 16, 87, 269, 270.
• Liszt, Franz, 276.
• Lounsbury, Thomas, 205.
• Lowell, J. R., 271.
• Lucke, C. E., 98, 137, 152.
• Masefield, John, 69, 70, 71.
• Materials:
  • ordering of, 41-47;
  • selecting of, 39-41.
• Mechanisms, 157-175;
  • aids for gaining clearness, 169-172;
  • aids for gaining interest, 172-175;
  • cautions, 158-159;
  • centralization, 159-162;
  • expression of root principle in one sentence, 160-161;
  • necessity for clearness, 157-158;
  • orders to be followed, 164-168.
• Meredith, George, 241.
• Methods,
  • in criticism:
  • appreciative, 209-215;
  • historical, 196-202;
  • standards, 202-209;
  • in definition:
  • comparison and contrast, 86;
  • division, 90;
  • elimination, 95;
  • illustration, 83;
  • origin, cause, and effect, 97;
  • repetition, 93.
• Middleton, Richard, 240.
• More, P. E., 115, 123.
• Morley, John, 18, 105-106.
• Morman, J. B., 85.
• Mozart, W. A., 277.
• Notes:
  • care in taking, 300;
  • economy the chief virtue, 298-299;
  • methods of taking, 300;
  • space of notes, 299-300.
• Order of Material, 41-47.
• Organizations: 157-162
  • (general discussion), 168-169;
  • aids to clearness, 169-172;
  • aids to interest, 172-175.
• Parkman, Francis, 236.
• Parr, 279.
• Partition, 8, 117.
• People as subjects for informal essays, 237-238.
• Pericles, 273.
• Poe, E. A., 12.
• Pollak, Gustav, 86, 93, 194, 222.
• Prelini, Charles, 170.
• Problem, statement of a, in informal analysis, 136.
• Problem of expository biography, 248-261.
• Processes: 157-162
  • (general discussion), 162-164;
  • aids to gaining clearness in, 169-172;
  • aids to gaining interest in, 172-175.
• Relation of events to personality in expository biography, 277-278.
• Relation of hero to society and times in expository biography, 278-280.
• Repetition as a method in definition, 93.
• Reporting vs. interpreting, 5.
• Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 208.
• Rhetorical strictness absent in informal essay, 242-243.
• Rhetorical value of events in expository biography, 280.
• Royce, Josiah, 131.
• Russell, Bertrand, 90, 135, 227.
• Sainte-Beuve, 91.
• Scott, Sir Walter, 200.
• Sedgwick, H. D., 108.
• Selection of material, 39-41.
• Shakespeare, William, 12, 60, 81, 257.
• Sharp, Dallas Lore, 173, 174, 237, 238.
• Shaw, G. B., 85, 102, 110, 112, 117, 146, 147, 156.
• Sidney, Sir Philip, 9.
• Significance, statement of, as form of informal analysis, 130.
• Slavery to printed word, 297.
• Slicer, T. R., 277.
• Smith, Sydney, 241.
• Socrates, 263.
• Sources of the controlling purpose, 16, 26.
• Standards, criticism by, 202-209.
• Steele, Richard, 232.
• Stevenson, R. L., 6, 41, 45, 55, 58, 66, 237, 238, 241, 257, 259, 260, 263, 271, 274, 281.
• Strategy, the problem of, in writing, 11.
• Sympathy, imaginative, in expository biography, 261-265.
• Taft, Wm. H., 46.
• Talbot, F. A., 165, 168.
• Taylor, Bert Lester, 102.
• Tennyson, Alfred, 26, 274.
• Thackeray, Wm. M., 258, 284.
• Truth, as related to interest, 7-8.
• Unification, 13-14.
• Warner, C. D., 238, 239.
• Warner, Frances L., 249.
• Webster, Daniel, 173.
• Weston, E. M., 116, 220.
• Whibley, Charles, 266, 269, 283.
• Whistler, 212.
• Wilson, Woodrow, 12, 176.
• Wister, Owen, 89.