or does it fail in developing
this feature of the story interest?

2. _a._ How is character presented? _b._ Are the characters well chosen
for their reactions among themselves? _c._ Are the things they do and
say continually consistent or not? _d._ Are they sufficiently
individualized to escape the appearance of the conventional and to hold
interest?

3. _a._ Does the story state facts and happenings merely, or does it get
hold of vital sensations and revive them? _b._ If so, in what ways does
it seem to do that? _c._ In general does it seem to you subjective or
objective in method?

4. _a._ How much of the interest of the story is in the development of
the plot and how much in the stirring of vital sensations, including
sympathetic moods? _b._ Does the development of the story center about
any idea or attitude toward life? _c._ What excellences and what faults
do you find in the story?

SOME STORIES AVAILABLE FOR STUDY

"Five Hundred Dollars," "The Village Convict," and "Eli," all in a
volume under the title of the first, Heman White Chaplin, Little, Brown
& Co., $1.00.

"Loveliness," Elizabeth Stuart Phelps-Ward, _Atlantic Monthly_, August,
1899.

"The Flail of Time," Helen Choate Prince, _Atlantic Monthly_, August,
1899.

"A Christmas Carol," Dickens, Cassel's National Library, 10 cents.

"Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush," Ian MacLaren, David C. Cook, Elgin and
Chicago, paper, 5 cents.

"The Luck of Roaring Camp," "Tennessee's Partner," Bret Harte, Houghton,
Mifflin & Co., $1.00, _Overland Monthly_, September, 1902.

"Bonaventure" (Chapters XVI-XVIII), George W. Cable, copyrighted, but
obtainable in a cheap reprint.

"The Game and the Nation," Owen Wister, _Harper's Monthly_, May, 1900.

Nettleton's "Specimens of the Short Story," Henry Holt & Co., 50 cents.

BOOKS THAT MAY PROFITABLY BE CONSULTED

"Education of the Central Nervous System," R. P. Halleck, The Macmillan
Co.

"The Philosophy of the Short Story," Brander Matthews, Longmans, Green &
Co.

"The Short Story," Yale Studies in English, Henry Holt & Co.

"Forms of Prose Literature," J. H. Gardiner, Chas. Scribner's Sons.

"Working Principles of Rhetoric," J. F. Genung, Ginn & Co.

"Outline of Psychology," E. B. Titchener, The Macmillan Co.

"Short Story Writing," C. R. Barrett, Baker & Taylor Co., $ 1.00.

Chapter XII, "A Study of Prose Fiction," Bliss Perry, Houghton, Mifflin
& Co.

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