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.