CHAPTER IV

. THE ENTERTAINING GROUP=

=Tale of Probable Adventure=

_Tales of Daring and Danger_, by G. A. Henty; F. H. Spearman's _Held for Orders_; _Tales of Railroad Life_ (McClure), _Nerve of Foley and other Railroad Stories_ (Harpers); Cy Warman's _The Last Spike and Other Railroad Stories_ and _The Express Messenger_ (Scribners); Stewart Edward White's _Blazed Trail Stories and Stories of the Wild Life_ (Doubleday). Many of R. L. Stevenson's tales.

=The Society Story=

This is the type of the larger number of love tales in current periodicals. When well done under certain restrictions of length and development a narrative of this kind rises to the class of the artistic short-story.

Pastoral Romance--_Aucassin and Nicolette_, translated by Andrew Lang (Chiswick Series); _Greek Romances of Heliodorus, Longus, and Achilles_ Tatius (Bohn); Cervantes' _Galatea_ is a typical example. It is published in English translation in Bohn's Libraries. Montemayor's _Diana_ is summarized rather fully in Dunlop II, pp. 365-376. For Sidney's pastoral see E. A. Baker's edition of the _Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia_. Lodge's _Rosalind_ (C. N. L.). For historical criticism of the type, see E. K. Chambers' _English Pastorals_ (Warwick Library), W. W. Greg's _Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama_, 1906, and J. B. Fletcher's _The Pastoral_ (Types of English Literature, Houghton Mifflin & Co.).

=The Humorous Story=

As in the case of the society story, the best collections of humorous stories are the cheaper current magazines.

Fableaux--A. de Montaiglon et G. Raynaud, _Receuil général et complet des fabliaux des XIIIe et XIVe siecles_, Paris, 1872-88, 6 vols. See Dunlop, _History of Fiction_, vol. II, p. 23 et seqq.

Picaresque romances--_Romances of Roguery_, by F. W. Chandler, 2 vols., 1899, is the standard book of criticism of the type. For the picaresque romances themselves, see Petronius Arbiter's _Satyricon_, English translation (Bohn); Apuleius' _Golden Ass_, English translation (Bohn). English translations of _Lazarillo de Tormes_, by Roscoe, and _Guzman d'Alfarache_, by Brandy, can be obtained from Lemcke and Buechner (N. Y.). _Gil Blas_, 2 vols. (W. C.); Smollett's _Roderick Random_, _Peregrine Pickle_, _Ferdinand_, _Count Fathom_, in works, edited by Saintsbury (London, 1895); Fielding's _Jonathan Wild_, in works, edited by Saintsbury (London, 1893); Thackeray's _Barry Lyndon_ (Macmillan); E. W. Hornung's _Amateur Cracksman_ (Tauchnitz) and _Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman_.

=The Occasional Story=

_Christmas Stories from the French and Spanish_, translated by Antoinette Ogden (McClurg, 1892). E. E. Hale's _In His Name_, and _Christmas Stories_ (Library edition); Stockton's _The Christmas Wreck_ (Scribners); Dickens' _Christmas Books and Stories_, 2 vols. (Houghton); Thackeray's _Christmas Books_ (Macmillan). The source of the nineteenth century emphasis of Christmas festivities in English was Irving's _Christmas Sketches_. _Unter dem Christbaum_ (Heath) contains five Christmas stories by Helene Stökl.

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