BRET HARTE—GEORGE R. STEWART JR. —Houghton Mifflin ($5).†
Francis Bret Harte (1836-1902)** arrived on the U. S. scene about the same time as Mark Twain, for a time rivaled him as foremost Western writer. Harte was born in Albany, N. Y., never liked his adopted State of California very much, and spent the last 24 years of his life abroad. A writer of serious ambitions, he rode to fame on the gales of laughter caused by a funny poem of which he was ashamed.
The California that was still bristling with...
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