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9
In his introduction to Materials and Methods ofFiction, by Clayton Hamilton, published by the Baker & Taylor Co., New York.
10
"The short-story is artificial, and to a considerable degree unnatural. It could hardly be otherwise, for it takes out of our complex lives a single person or a single incident and treats that as if it were complete in itself. Such isolation is not known to nature." – Page 22 of Short-Story Writing, by Charles Raymond Barrett, published by the Baker & Taylor Co., New York.
11
For example, the story told by Demodocus of TheIllicit Love of Ares for Aphrodite, and the Revenge which HephaestusPlanned– Odyssey, Bk. VIII.
12
From the introduction, by Charles Whibley, to the Tudor Translations' edition by W.E. Henley, of The Golden Ass of Apuleius, published by David Nutt, London, 1893. All other quotations bearing upon Apuleius are taken from the same source.
13
The second novel of the second day, and the sixth of the ninth day.
14
In the third chapter of The Great English Essayists, vol. iii of The Reader's Library, published by Messrs. Harper & Brothers, 1909.
15
Compare with Kipling's treatment of a similar theme in The Brushwood Boy.
16
The Gesta Romanorum was written in Latin.
17
From Tales and Sketches, by the Ettrick Shepherd.
18
From The Money-diggers.
