CHAPTER III

. INGENIOUS-ASTONISHING GROUP=

=Tale of Mere Wonder=

Meredith's _Shaving of Shagpat_ (Bozhill edition); Stevenson's _New Arabian Nights_, and _More New Arabian Nights_ (Scribners); H. W. Weber's _Tales of the East_, 3 vols. (Edinburgh, 1812); Dandin's _Hindoo Tales_ (London, 1873); S. Julien's _Nouvelles Chinoises_ (Paris, 1860). _History of the Forty Vezirs_, Turkish tales translated by Epiphanius Wilson: Turkish Literature, pp. 361-460 (W. G. C.). _Egyptian Tales_, translated by W. F. Petrie: Egyptian Literature, pp. 135-177 (W. G. C.). _Moorish Tales_, translated by Rene Basset, Chauncey Starkweather, and others: Moorish Literature (W. G. C.). _Tales of the Genii_, translated from the Persian by Sir Charles Morell (Bohn); _Arabian, Nights' Entertainments_, edited by Stanley Lane-Pool, in 6 vols. (A. B.), or in 4 vols. (Bohn); _The Golden Ass_, by Apuleius (Bohn).

=Imaginary Voyage With a Satiric or Instructive Purpose=

Lucian 's _Trips to the Moon_ (C. N. L. No. 71); More's _Utopia_ (T. C.); Bacon's _New Atlantis_ (Bohn); Barclay's _Argenis_, English translation by Sir R. Le Grys, 1629; Swift's _Gulliver's Travels_ (T. C.). For Swift's obligations to previous writers, see article by Borkowsky in "Anglia," vol. 15. F. C. Sibbern (1785-1872), a Scandinavian writer, wrote "Contents of a MS. of the year 2,135." _The Adventures of Baron Munchausen_, by Rudolphe Eric Raspe (P. W. C.); _Robinson Crusoe_, in Defoe's Works, vol. 7 (Bohn).

For summaries of the imaginary voyages of Lucian, Holberg, Cyrano de Bergerac, Berkeley, and others, see Dunlop _History of Prose Fiction_, vol. II, pp. 518-538, 588-591, 619-622 (Bohn, revised edition, 1896).

=Tale of Scientific Discovery and of Mechanical Invention=

H. G. Wells's stories and novels are good examples of the pseudo-scientific tale. His imaginary voyages are not without gentle satire on the learned theories of the day (Scribners, Harpers, Century). "With the Night Mail; a Story of 2000 A. D.," by Rudyard Kipling (Doubleday, 1909); _The Mystery_, by Stewart Edward White and Samuel Hopkins Adams. Most of the short stories of this type mentioned in the discussion can be found in the collections of short stories (see below).

=The Detective Story and Other Tales of Mere Plot=

Among the earliest detective stories and stories of crime belong Charles Brockden Brown's _Edgar Huntley_ and _Arthur Mervyn_ (Works, Philadelphia, 1877); Edgar Allan Poe's famous detective stories have been mentioned in the text. Emile Gaboriau (1835-1873) popularized the story of crime in France. M. Lecoq is a direct forerunner of Sherlock Holmes. His _Works_ are published (in English translation) in 6 vols. A. Conan Doyle's _Adventures of Sherlock Holmes_, _Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes_, _The Return of Sherlock Holmes_, _The Sign of the Four_, _A Study in Scarlet_, _The Hound of the Baskervilles_, etc., are worth reading. Anna Katherine Green surely does not lack popularity whatever else she may lack. Her earlier stories are better than her later, with the exception of _The Filigree Ball_, which is perhaps her best. Meredith Nicholson's _House of a Thousand Candles_ has a good mysterious plot. The works of Rodriguez Ottolengui (Putnam). For other stories of pure plot see writers mentioned in bibliography to Chapter VI .

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