CHAPTER VII. PARTICULAR ACCOUNTS 479-556

I. INCIDENT--Definition--How to tell an incident--Examples 480

II. ANECDOTE--Meaning of the term--Ana--Collection of anecdotes--How to write an original anecdote--Examples 490

III. EYE-WITNESS ACCOUNT--What it is and how to write it--An ancient eye-witness account--Literary eyewitness accounts--Examples 499

IV. TALE OF ACTUAL ADVENTURE--The one necessary element--Suggestions for writing--Examples 512

V. THE TRAVELER'S SKETCH--What a traveler's sketch includes--Great travel books--Fielding's gentle warning--A motto for the narrator--Examples 530