Clerk, 170.

Demean, 170.

Dénouement in drama, 299.
Dependent clause, 10.

Close of sentence, 92.

Collective nouns, 53.

Colon, 4-5.

Dépôt, 171.

tions, 15-16.

Commercial correspondence, 319.
Common errors, 167-84.

Comparisons, 89.

Complected, 170.

Compound sentence, 75-77.
Conclusion, of sentences, 92; in

drama, 299; of letters, 317-20.
Concurrence of like sounds, 152.
Conjunctions, 52.
Connection, 90.
Consonants, 116.

Construction, shift of, 68-69; exer-
cise, 69-71; of short story, 279-
80.

Content and form, 145-47.
Contractions, 18.

Contrast in definition, 253.
Conventions of drama, 296.
Coördination, 75-76.
Corrections, 200, 202-03.
Correspondence, 312-27; social and
friendly letters, 312; exercises,
319; commercial letters, 319; fold-
ing, 322; addresses, 323; refer-
ences, 326.
Could of, 170.
Cp., 220.

Criticism, of description, 236-37;
of exposition, 246; and references,
247-48.

Crowding manuscript, 200.
Cunning, 170.

Dangerous, 170.

relation to other forms of expres-
sion, 224-26; and painting, 225-
26; fundamental factors, 226–27;
methods of, 227-28; points of
view, 228-30; material for, 230-
32; terms in, 232-33; of indivi-
duals, 233-34; descriptive words,
language, 235-36; criticism of,
236-37; exercises, 237-39; theme
subjects, 239-40; references, 240-
41.

Detective stories, 289.

Determination. See Shall and will,
58, 59.

Diacritical marks, 122, 164–65.
Dialect, story, 270; in short story,
277; stories, list of, 287-88.
Dialogue, paragraphing of, 100; in
short story, 276.
Diction, 167-88.
Dictionaries, use of, 121-23; ex-
ercise, 123-25; English, 125-26;
foreign, 126-27; obsolete and
provincial words, 126; slang,
126.

Didactic story, 270, 286.
Die with, 171.
Differ with, 171.
Different, 171.

Direct quotation, 19.
Division of words, 39.

Division of theme, 193-99.

Domestic life, list of stories on, 285-
86.

Dominant impression, 232.

Emphasis, 92-94; by italics., 34: hr

repetition, 93: exercise, 94-95;

in exposition, 244.
English short story, 252.
Brthuse, 172.

Envelopes, addresses on, $23-24.

Erasures in manuscript, 23.

Etc., 35.

Et seq., 220.

Euphony, 152-53.

Evidence, 257.

Excessive coordination, 77.

Exclamation point, 4.
Exercises-

Definition, 253.
Description, 237-40.

Dictionary, use of, 123.
Drama, 302-07.
Exposition, 249-51.
Figures of speech, 161.

Language, 188.

Letter-writing, 319.

Miscellaneous errors, 102.
Narration, 289-92.

Punctuation, 7, 14, 21, 22, 25.
Sequence of tenses, 57.

Sentence structure, 69, 72, 74, 77,

80, 81, 84, 89, 91, 94, 95, 97.
Shall and will, 61.

Syntax, 53.

Style, 153.

Synonyms, 131.

Tenses, 57.

Translation, 311.

Voice, 62.

Word analysis, 136.

Words, 129.

Expect, 172.

Gesture, 178.

Golten, 173

58.

126.

Mutual, 177.

Mysterious stories, list of, 285.

Names in narrative, 280.
Narration, 267-94; and description,
224; definition, 267; relation to
description, 267; relation to ex-
position, 268; relation to the
drama, 268; forms of, 268; with
plot, 268; materials of, 268-69;
interest in, 269; purpose of, 269;
study of short story, 269-82; read-
ing lists, 282-89; exercises, 289-
92; references, 292-94.
Near-by, 177.
Negative, double, 152.
Neither, 177.
Nice, 177.

None, 178.

Non-fiction reading list, 248-49.
Non-restrictive phrases, 12-14.
Nor, 10, 52. See Neither.
No sooner, 178.

Notebooks, 209.

Note-taking, 208-14.

Paging manuscript, 200.

Painting and description, 225–26.
Paragraphs, 98-101; references, 101.
Parallelism, 72-74; exercise, 74-75.
Parentheses, 8, 23-24.
Participial conclusion, in letters,
318.

Participle, dangling, 82.
Parts of composition, 193–99.
Parts of speech, 114-15.
Party, 179.

Passive voice, 61-62, 69.
Past tense, 55.
Pathetic fallacy, 232–33.
Per, 179.

Per cent, 179.
Period, 2-3.

Personality and style, 147-48.
Phrases, foreign, 142–44.
Place, 179.

Place, unity of, in drama, 298.
Placing of modifiers, 78-80.
Plagiarism, 217.

Planning on, 179.

Plays, 294 et seq.; reading list, 303-
04.

ences, 214.

Novelty, striving for, 149.

Number, agreement of, 51.

Plot, in drama, 298; in short story,
278-79.

Plurals, 40-43; foreign, 41.

39.

0, 178.

Of, 178.

Of a. See Kind of.

Points of view, in description, 228-
30; in short story, 271-72.
Possessives, 43-45, 50.

Possessive pronouns, no apostrophe
with, 18.

Précis, 194.

Predicate, agreement, 51-53.

Predicate substantive, 49.

Prefixes, 134–35.

matic use of, 138-39.

Present, historical, 57.
Preventative, 179.

Pronoun, 51, 150; reference of, 85-

86; omission, 88.
Pronunciation, 116–17.

Proof, 257.

Proper nouns, 30-31.

Proven, 179.

Proverbs, hackneyed, 186.
Providing, 179.

Psychological stories, 288-89.
Punctuation, 1-25; exercises, 7-8,
14-15, 21-23, 25-29; references,
29-30.

Question mark, 3.

Questions, shall and will in, 59.
Quite, 179-80.

Quotation, 11, 215-18; marks, 19-
21, 215; sources, 216; wrong use
of, 217-18; poetry, 218.

Raise, 180.

Reading a play, 301.

Reading lists, non-fiction, 248-49;
biographies, 265-66; collected
biographies, 266; autobiographies,
266-67; plays, 303-04.

Real, 180.

Recommend, 180.

Redundance, 150-52.
Reference, 85-87.

References, and footnotes, 219-21;
drama, 307; translation, 311;
on correspondence, 326.
Refutation, 257.

Relative clauses, punctuation of,
11-15.

Remember of, 181.

Remote reference of pronoun, 86.
Repetition, 93, 119, 129, 150-52.
Restrictive phrases, 11-12, 13–14.
Rig, 181.

Romantic story, 270.

Russian short story, 283.

Semicolon, 5–7.

Sentences, structure of, 67 et seq.;
long, 68; rambling, 68; stringy,
68; shift of construction, 68-69;
exercise, 69-71; loose, 75-76,
95-97; bad construction, exer-
cise, 81-82; periodic, 93, 95-97;
periodic and loose, exercise, 97;
periodic and loose, references,
97-98; structure, exercises, 102-
10.

Sentimental stories, 289.
Sequence of tenses, 55-57.
Setting in short story, 274-76.
Shall and will, 58-60; exercise, 61.
Shift of construction, 57, 68; tense
in narrative, 55.

Short story, length, 269; concen-
tration, 269; types of, 269-70;
classification, 269-70; title, 270-
71; person, 271-72; method, 272-
73; introduction, 273-74; setting,
274-75; local color, 275; dialogue,
276; dialect, 277; substitutes for
said, 277-78; plot, 278-79; con-
struction, 279-80; character, 280;
reading lists, by countries, French,
282; English, 282; American, 282-
83; German, 283; Russian, 283;
Scandinavian, 283; Italian, 283;
Spanish, 283; by subjects, drama-
tic interest and technique, 284;
supernatural, 284; grotesque,
mysterious and horrible, 285;
domestic and social life, 285-86;
moral, didactic and allegorical,
286; human interest, 286-87;
local color and dialect, 287-88;
humorous, surprise, 288; psy-
chological, 288-89; fanciful, sen-
timental, idyllic, 289; detective,
289; exercises, 289-92; references,
292-94.

Should. See Shall.
Sick. See Ill.

Signatures in letters, 317.