annotated and enlarged edition, particularly for the use of
students and teachers in schools and colleges.

DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY.
_Garden City, New York, 1918._

CONTENTS

FOREWORD vii

INTRODUCTION xiii

I. THE PURPOSE OF FICTION 3
Fiction a Means of Telling Truth--Fact and
Fiction--Truth and Fact--The Search for Truth--The
Necessary Triple Process--Different Degrees of
Emphasis--The Art of Fiction and the Craft of
Chemistry--Fiction and Reality--Fiction and
History--Fiction and Biography--Biography,
History, and Fiction--Fiction Which Is
True--Fiction Which Is False--Casual Sins against
the Truth in Fiction--More Serious Sins against the
Truth--The Futility of the Adventitious--The
Independence of Created Characters--Fiction More
True Than a Casual Report of Fact--The Exception
and the Law--Truthfulness the only Title to
Immortality--Morality and Immorality in Fiction--The
Faculty of Wisdom--Wisdom and Technic--General
and Particular Experience--Extensive and Intensive
Experience--The Experiencing Nature--Curiosity and
Sympathy.

II. REALISM AND ROMANCE 25
Two Methods of Exhibiting the Truth--Every Mind Either
Realistic or Romantic--Marion Crawford's Faulty
Distinction--A Second Unsatisfactory Distinction--A
Third Unsatisfactory Distinction--Bliss Perry's
Negative Definition--The True Distinction One of
Method, Not of Material--Scientific Discovery and
Artistic Expression--The Testimony of Hawthorne--A
Philosophic Formula--Induction and Deduction--The
Inductive Method of the Realist--The Deductive
Method of the Romantic--Realism, Like Inductive
Science, a Strictly Modern Product--Advantages of
Realism--Advantages of Romance--The Confinement of
Realism--The Freedom of Romance--Neither Method
Better Than the Other--Abuses of Realism--Abuses of