Accuracy, 95.
Æsop, Fable from, 152.
Alliteration, 113.
Ambiguous term, The, 235, 236.
Analogy, The argument from,
Andersen, Hans Christian, The
Little Match Girl, 156.
Antecedent probability, 228.
Apostrophe, 106.
Arguing beside the point, 235,
236.
Argumentation, Definition of,
206.
Arguments, Kinds of, 228.
Arnold, Matthew, length of sen-
tence in Culture and Anar-
chy, 65.
Arrangement, of material in the
discourse, 18; of details in
description, 133.
Artistic description, 132.
Association of ideas, The laws
Authority, The argument from,
231.
Baker, G. P., Principles of Ar-
gumentation, 209.
Balanced sentence, 83.
Bates, Arlo, summing up the
gist of a paragraph, 40, 41;
on repetition, 115.
Begging the question, 235, 236.
Beginning of the discourse, 26.
Belief, Ways of inducing, 208.
Beside the point, Arguing, 235.
Bifurcate classification, 201.
Borrowing thought, 12.
Burroughs, John, sketching from
nature, 13, 14; essay on Dr.
Johnson and Carlyle, 21.
Carlyle, Life of Sterling, 149.
Characterization, 159.
Chronicle, The Anglo-Saxon,
151.
Circumlocution, 119.
Classification, of paragraphs, 34;
of sentences, 58, 80; of com-
positions, 121; requisites of a
good, 199; bifurcate, 201.
Clearness, in the discourse in gen-
eral, 90; in exposition, 203.
Coherence, in the discourse, 18;
in the paragraph, 41; in the
sentence, 68.
Composition, The whole, 10;
meaning of the term, 10.
Conciseness, 108.
Congruity, 110.
Connotation, IOI.
Conviction, 210.
Creighton, J. E., Introductory
Logic, 222, 224, 232.
Dartmouth College Case, The,
Darwin, Charles, Origin of Spe-
cies, 66, 182, 207.
Definition, loose, 186; logical,
187; requisites of a good, 188;
methods of exposition by,
Denotation, IOI.
DeQuincey, Levana and Our
Ladies of Sorrow, 114.
Description, definition of, 125;
relation to other forms of dis-
course, 126; kinds of, 130;
scientific, 130; artistic, 132;
indirect, 144; vividness in, 146.
Details, in description, 133, 134;
in narration, 170.
Dialogue, 176.
Dickens, Hard Times, 171.
Digressions in the narrative, 170.
Discourse, the, coherence in,
18; planning, 19; purpose of,
Io; theme of, 16; title of, 17;
units of, 10; unity of, 15; pro-
portion in, 25.
Division, 197.
Elements of narration, 155.
Eliot, George, Middlemarch,
148.
Emerson, on reading creatively,
Emphasis, in the paragraph, 54;
in the sentence, 78.
Ending, of the discourse in gen-
eral, 27; of the narrative, 176.
Enthymemes, 216.
Evidence, 227, 229.
Exposition, definition of, 179;
relation to other forms of dis-
course, 181; kinds of, 182; by
definition, 183; by classifica-
tion, 194.
Euphony, III.
Fallacies, 235.
Fielding, Tom Jones, 144.
Figures of speech, 103.
Force, 100.
Garrick, acting of, 144.
Generalization, 195; hasty, 235.
Genung, J. F., Working Prin-
ciples of Rhetoric, 4.
Grammatical errors, 68.
Grammar, relation to rhetoric, 4,
5.
Hamerton, P. G., "On the Diffi-
culty of Discovering Fixed
Laws," 195.
Hasty generalization, Fallacy of,
235, 237.
Hawthorne, The House of Seven
Gables, 135, 138; The Scarlet
Letter, 142, 168.
Hearn, Lafcadio, Two Years in
the French West Indies, 142,
293; Japan: An Interpreta-
tion, 192; Out of the East, 148.
Hughes, Thomas, Tom Brown
at Oxford, 173.
Huxley, The Physical Basis of
Life, 97; Three Lectures on
Evolution, 182, 223, 231..
Hyperbole, 106.
Hypothesis, 222, 224.
Individuality in the discourse, 12.
Inferences, 213.
Invention, II, 12.
Irony, 106.
Irrelevant matter, 15.
Irving, Rip Van Winkle, 46.
Kipling, The City of Dreadful
Night, 143.
Laughlin, J. Lawrence, Large
Fortunes, 199.
Length, of paragraph, 53; of the
sentence, 65.
Loose, construction in the sen-
tence, 73; sentence, 82.
Lowell, beginning of the essay
on Emerson the Lecturer, 27.
Macaulay, unified paragraph
from, 39;
sentences and clauses in para-
graph from, 63; length of
sentence in the Essay on Mil-
ton, 65.
coördination of
Material, selection of, II; ar-
rangement of, 18; sources of,
Matthews, Brander, Vignettes
from Manhattan, 21, 29.
Metaphor, The, 104.
Metonymy, 105.
Minto, W., Manual of English
Prose Literature, 81.
Models, Use of, 6.
Movement, in description, 139;
in narration, 172.
Muir, John, Our National Parks,
132.
Narration, definition of, 72; re-
lation to other forms of dis-
course, 153; kinds of, 154;
elements of, 155; point of
view in, 167.
Narrowing the subject, 16.
Newman, The Idea of a Univer-
sity, 65, 185, 211; "What is
a University," 190.
Observation, cultivating habits
of, 14; as a basis of induction,
Paragraph, the, definition of, 32;
structure of, 38; classification
of, 34; unity in, 38; coherence
in, 41; typical scheme of, 43;
topic of, 44, 45; parallel con-
struction in, 50; proportion in,
53; emphasis in, 54.
Paragraphing, Reasons for, 32, 33.
Parallel Construction in the par-
agraph, 50.
Parkman, The Oregon Trail, 84.
Participles, Carelessness in the
use of, 70.
Partition, 202.
Periodic sentence, The, 8o.
Personification, 105.
Persuasion, 209.
Peters, J. P., Nippur, 145.
Phrasing, 107.
Plagiarism, 12.
Planning the discourse, 19; rule
to remember in, 23.
Pleonasm, 109.
Poe, The Gold Bug, 165.
Point at issue, Importance of
making clear the, 212.
Point of view, in the paragraph,
49; in description, 134; chang-
ing, 140; in narration, 167.
Precept and practice in writing, 7.
Premises, 214; establishment of
the, 217.
Presumption, The, 212.
Proportion, in the discourse, 25;
in the paragraph, 53.
Proposition, The, 210.
Provincialisms, 92.
Punctuation, 243; faulty, 76.
Purpose of the discourse, 10.
Reading critically or creatively,
Reasoning, methods of, 212; de-
ductive, 214; inductive, 221.
Redundancy, 108.
Reference words, Carelessness in
the use of, 69.
Rhetoric, definition of, 3; dis-
tinguished from grammar, 4.
Selection, of material in the dis-
course, II; of details in de-
scription, 133; of details in nar-
ration, 168.
Scientific description, 65.
Sentence, the, definition of, 58;
classification of, 58, 80; unity
in, 61; coherence in, 68; em-
phasis in, 78; periodic, 80;
loose, 82; balanced, 83.
Setting, 164.
Shall and will, Confusion of, 70.
Sign, Argument from, 229.
Simile, The, 104.
Sources of material, II.
Stead, W. T., The Destiny of
South Africa, 28.
Stevenson, R. L., on learning to
write, 7, 8; on the apt choice of
words, 89; on alliteration, 113;
length of sentence in Virgin-
ibus Puerisque and Treasure
Island, 65, 66; Silverado
Squatters, 85, 132; Edinburgh,
135; Across the Plains, 147;
A Gossip on Romance, 160;
The Treasure of Franchard,
161.
Subject, Narrowing the, 16.
Suspense, in the sentence, 80; in
narration, 172.
Syllogism, The, 214.
Synecdoche, 105.
Tenses, Lack of consistency in
the use of, 71.
Term, the familiar vs. the learned,
103; the specific vs. the gen-
eral, 103; the figurative vs. the
literal, 103; the ambiguous,
235.
Testimony, The argument from,
Theme, The, 16.
Thoreau, Cape Cod, 147.
Thurston, R. H., Heat as a Form
of Energy, 47.
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