of description,
  as purpose of description,
  necessity of observing impressions,
  limited to experience,
  affected by mood,
  union with image. 
Improbability. 
Incentive moment. 
Indentation. 
Inductive reasoning: 
  errors of. 
Inference:  use in argument. 
Infinitives. 
Interrogation. 
Interrogation mark:  rule for. 
Introduction. 
Invitations. 
Irony. 
Irving.

Jackson, Helen Hunt. 
Jordan and Kellogg.

Kellogg. 
Kingsley. 
Kipling.

Language: 
  as a medium through which ideas are acquired,
  adapted to reader,
Letter writing:  Chapter VI;
  importance of,
  paper,
  beginning,
  body,
  conclusion,
  envelope,
  rule of,
  business letters,
  letters of friendship,
  adaptation to reader,
  notes. 
Lodge. 
Longfellow. 
Lovelace. 
Lowell. 
Lyric poetry.

Macaulay. 
Macy-Norris. 
Madame de Stael. 
Matthews. 
Maxims:  appeals to in argument. 
McCarthy, Justin. 
Meaning of words. 
Memory. 
Metaphor: 
  mixed. 
Methods of developing a composition: 
  with reference to time-order,
  with reference to position in space,
  by use of comparison or contrast,
  by use of generalization and facts,
  by stating cause and effect,
  by a combination of methods. 
Metonymy. 
Metrical romance. 
Metrical tale. 
Mill. 
Mill, J. S.
Miller, Mary Rogers. 
Milton. 
Mode. 
Montgomery. 
Morris, Clara. 
Motive, in persuasion.

Narration:  Chapter IX (see also narrative themes below);
  kinds of,
  use of description in,
  general narration,
  narrative poetry. 
Narrative themes. 
Newcomer. 
Notes: 
  formal,
  informal. 
Nouns. 
Number.

Observation: 
  of actions,
  order of,
  accuracy in,
  observation of impression. 
Obverse statements. 
Ode. 
Ollivaut. 
Oral compositions. 
Order of events. 
Outline: 
  of a paragraph.
  the brief.
  making of.
  use of in exposition.

Palmer. 
Paragraph: 
  defined,
  topic statement,
  importance of,
  length,
  indentation,
  reasons for studying,
  methods of development—­
    by specific instances,
    by giving details,
    in time-order,
    as determined by position in space,
    by comparison,
    by cause and effect,
    by repetition,
    by a combination of methods. 
Paraphrasing. 
Participles. 
Partition. 
Parts of speech. 
Period:  rules for. 
Person. 
Personification. 
Persuasion: 
  differs from argument,
  importance and necessity of,
  motive in,
  material of,
  appeal to feelings,
  with argument. 
Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart. 
Philips, David Graham.