Chapter IX: Impersonal Accounts 612-645

I. ANNALS--What annals are--Famous old annals--Stow--Suggestions on
material--Examples 613

II. CHRONICLES--Definition--Froissart, Ayala, "General Chronicle of
Spain"--Saxo Grammaticus--Holinshed--True relations--Examples 626

BIBLIOGRAPHY 647-660
INDEX 661-672

LIST OF STORIES

NARRATIVES OF FICTITIOUS EVENTS

=Myths=
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The World's Creation and the Birth of Wainamoinen.
From the _Kalevala_ 14

_Students' Themes_--
Origin of the Moon Emanuel Baja 16
The First Cocoanut Tree Manuel Reyes 18
The Lotus Ida Treat 21

=Legends=

Kenach's Little Woman William Canton 28

_Students' Themes_--
A Legend of Gapan Teofilo Corpus 36
Manca: a Legend of the Incas Dorothea Knoblock 38
The Place of the Red Grass Sixto Guico 42

=Fairy Tales=

The Boggart From the English 55

_Students' Themes_--
Cafre and the Fisherman's Wife Benito Ebuen 57
The Friendship of an Asuang and a Duende Emanuel Baja 58
A Tianac Frightens Juan Santiago Ochoa 61
The Black Cloth of the Calumpang Eusebio Ramos 63

=Nursery Tales=

Princess Helena the Fair From the Russian 69

_Students' Themes_--
Juan the Guesser Bienvenido Gonzalez 73
The Shepherd who became King Vicente Hilario 78

=Fables=

Jupiter and the Countryman From the _Spectator_ 90
The Drop of Water (Persian) From the _Spectator_ 91
The Grandee at the Judgment Seat Kriloff 91
The Lion and the Old Hare From the _Hitopadesa_ 92
The Fox and the Crab From the Turkish 93
The Fool who Sells Wisdom From the Turkish 94
The Archer and the Trumpeter From the Turkish 95

_Students' Themes_--
The Courtship of Sir Butterfly Maximo M. Kalaw 96
The Hat and the Shoes José R. Perez 98
The Crocodile and the Peahen Elisa Esguerra 99
The Old Man, his Son, and his Grandson Eutiquiano Garcia 100

=Parables=

The Three Questions Tolstoy 104

_Students' Themes_--
A Master and his Servant Eusebio Ramos 110
The Parable of the Beggar and the Givers Dorothea Knoblock 111

=Allegories=

The Artist Oscar Wilde 120
The House of Judgment Oscar Wilde 120

_Students' Themes_--
The Chain that Binds Elizabeth Sudborough 123
The Love which Surpassed All Other Loves Florence Gifford 125

=Tales of Mere Wonder=

The Story of the City of Brass From the _Arabian Nights_ 132

_Student's Theme_--
The Magic Ring, the Bird, and the Basket Facundo Esquivel 147

=Imaginary Voyages=

Mellonta Tauta Edgar Allan Poe 155

_Student's Theme_--
Busyong's Trip to Jupiter Manuel Candido 173

=Tale of Scientific Discovery and Mechanical Invention=

A Curious Vehicle Alexander Wilson Drake 200

_Students' Themes_--
The Spyglass of the Past Hazel Orcutt 218
Up a Water Spout Edna Collister 221

=Detective Story and Tale of Mere Plot=

Thou Art the Man Edgar Allan Poe 228

_Student's Theme_--
The Picture of Lhasa Hazel Orcutt 248

=Tales of More-or-Less Probable Adventure=

Fight with a Bear Charles Reade 257

_Student's Theme_--
Secret of the Jade Tlaloc Dorothea Knoblock 267

=Society Stories=

The Fur Coat Ludwig Fulda 277

_Student's Theme_--
The Lady in Pink Wilma I. Ball 289

=Humorous Stories=

The Expatriation of Jonathan Taintor Charles Battell Loomis 302

_Students' Themes_--
Kileto and the Physician Lorenzo Licup 307
The Lame Man and the Deaf Family Santiago Rotea 311

=Occasional Stories=

The Lost Child François Coppée 315

_Students' Themes_--
The Peace of Yesterdays Katherine Kurz 334
A Christmas Legend Ida F. Treat 342

=Moral Story=

Jeannot and Colin Voltaire 348

=Pedagogical Narratives=

Gertrude's Method of Instruction Pestalozzi 365

_Student's Theme_--
Lawin-lawinan (a Filipino game) Leopoldo Uichanco 368

=Stories of Present-Day Realism=

The Piece of String Maupassant 374

_Students' Themes_--
A Social Error Ida Treat 382
The Lot of the Poor Agnes Palmer 388
Filipino Fear Walfrido de Leon 390

=Psychological Weird Tales=

The Signal-Man Charles Dickens 403

_Student's Theme_--
Like a Thief in the Night Dorothea Knoblock 420

=Stories That Emphasize Character and Environment=

Muhammad Din Rudyard Kipling 432

_Students' Themes_--
The Fetters Katherine Kurz 436
When Terry Quit Dorothea Knoblock 446
Nora Titay and Chiquito Joaquina E. Tirona 453

=Stories That Emphasize Character and Events=

The Necklace Maupassant 460

_Student's Theme_--
Andong Justo Avila 470

NARRATIVES OF ACTUAL EVENTS

=Incidents=

A Near Tragedy Fielding 482
An Incident before Sadowa: Birds
Divulge Army Secrets Newspaper 483
An Incident Related in a Letter Robert Louis Stevenson 484

_Students' Themes_--
A Hero Dead Ida Treat 485
My First Day at School Máximo Kalaw 487
The Guinatan Prize Leopoldo Faustino 488

=Anecdotes=

Coleridge's Retort 493
An Inevitable Misfortune 494
A Point Needing to be Settled 494
Patience 494
Preaching and Practice 495
Johnson's Dictionary 495
The Boy Kipling 496
Sir Godfrey Kneller Spence 496
Pope and the Trader Spence 497
The Capitan Municipal and the Jokers José Feliciano 497
An Instance of Bamboo Spanish Pilar Ejercito 498
Mr. Taft's Mistake Amando Clements 499

=Eye-Witness Accounts=

The Portuguese Revolution Newspaper 503

_Student's Theme_--
A Contrast Adolfo Scheerer 509

=Tales of Actual Adventures=

The Bear Hunt Tolstoy 514

_Students' Themes_--
Saladin and I Fight an Alupong Cecilio Esquivel 525
I Get Two Beatings Facundo Esquivel 527
The Fall of Juan Gregorio Farrales 528
A Narrow Escape from a Wild Carabao José Cariño 529

=Travellers' Sketches=

On the Way to Talavera George Borrow 534
Smyrna--First Glimpses of the East Thackeray 539

_Student's Theme_--
A Trip from Curimao to Laoag Fernando Maramag 551

=Journals and Diaries=

Extracts from Pepys' Diary 562

_Students' Themes_--
A Diary of Four Days Facundo Esquivel 564
A Journal: Mock Heroic Victoriano Yamzon 567

=Autobiography and Memoirs=

The Life of David Hume, Esq. Written by himself 575
Student autobiography Domingo Guanio 585
What I Remember of the Coming of
the Americans Leopoldo Faustino 588

=Biographies=

Queen Christina Hawthorne 595

_Students' Themes_--
Juan Luna's Life Dolores Asuncion 604
Life of Elizabeth Glade Nellie Barrington 607
The Biography of a Traitor Walfrido de Leon 609

=Annals=

The State of England, in Stephen's Reign _Peterborough Chronicle_ 616

_Students' Themes_--
Annals of Mangaldan Translated by Bernabe
Aquino 621
Annals of Pagsanjan Dolores Zafra 622

=Chronicles=

Rivalry between Two Towns Froissart 630

_Students' Themes_--
A Short History of Ilagan Fernando Maramag 636
Some Incidents of the Rebellion of
1898: A True Relation Marcelino Montemayor 639