The Short Story a Technical and Literary Study by E. A. Cross, (Ethan Allen), (1914). The Short Story is
a literary form as distinct as the novel or epic poem and almost as
uniformly true to its technical type as the ballade or sonnet. This book
is written for the numerous readers who enjoy the best short stories in
the magazines, in the hope that it may be an aid to them in getting at
the meaning of these stories through an understanding of their
construction. One who occasionally reads poetry may get some pleasure
from the reading of a poem composed in one of the standard poetic forms
without knowing anything about the kinds of lyrics, but the reader who
understands the technic of the sonnet or ballade derives an added
pleasure from reading poems in these forms when he is aware that the
author's meaning, his theme, has been embodied skillfully in an
exquisite fixed form. An observer who is acquainted with the details of
architecture delights in looking upon a finished structure, beautiful,
stately, well adapted to its intended use, in which he recognizes a
conformity to the laws of construction, an embodiment of historic lines
in the decoration and total effect, and the successful conquest of
difficulties in order to accomplish the result in the standard technical
requirements of architecture.
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