| 单词 | Bret Harte |
| 例句 | In a volume of autobiography, he recalled: ‘In the early days I liked Bret Harte . . . but by and by I got over it.’ Tom Wolfe vs. John Updike, Norman Mailer and John Irving — and other timeless literary feuds 2019-06-23T04:00:00Z He dislikes Bret Harte, whom he dismisses as “always bright but never brilliant”; offers a sad portrait of an aged and infirm Harriet Beecher Stowe; and lavishly praises his friend William Dean Howells. Mark Twain?s Unexpurgated Autobiography 2010-07-10T01:43:00Z As a child, Kipling fell under the spells of Emerson and Bret Harte; he soon discovered Whitman, Longfellow and Twain. Taking Another Look at the Author of ‘The White Man’s Burden’ 2019-07-07T04:00:00Z After all, imitating the sound of Asian languages is something of a national pastime, from Mark Twain and Bret Harte’s “Ah Sin” to Wayne Campbell and Garth Algar’s “Cream of Sum Yung Guy.” When White Poets Pretend to Be Asian 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z Angels Camp Bret Harte 62, Huntington Beach Marina 39: With a population of less than 4,000, the city of Angels Camp is known for its jumping frog competition. State basketball: Pacifica Christian falls in Division II boys final 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z Bret Harte Junior High and Skyline High School had Asian, Latino and Black students, but those schools were mostly white. Opinion | Tom Hanks: You Should Learn the Truth About the Tulsa Race Massacre 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z The next year he sent in a handwritten copyright application for a play, “Ah Sin,” he was co-writing with fellow author Bret Harte. Cascade of title pages, and one squashed fly, help mark 150 years of the U.S. Copyright Office 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z Mark Twain described his rival and former friend Bret Harte as “a liar, a thief, a swindler, a snob, a sot, a sponge, a coward”. Headbutts, snark and furious obsession: a toxic history of literary rivalries 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z Bret Harte created quite a sensation in London society by reading these verses in manuscript.—N. Annouchka A Tale 2012-04-13T02:00:19.120Z Mark Twain and Bret Harte would hardly recognize their own California. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z Bret Harte has been known to pass days and weeks on a short story or poem before he was ready to deliver it into the hands of the printer. How to Write a Novel A Practical Guide to the Art of Fiction 2012-02-17T03:00:36.070Z When Bret Harte asks, ‘Is our civilization a failure, Is the Caucasian played out?’ Pictures of Canadian Life A Record of Actual Experiences 2012-02-14T03:00:28.520Z A little in Bret Harte’s manner, crossed, perhaps, with that of Guy de Maupassant.” Early Days in North Queensland 2012-01-24T03:00:29.987Z The stories of Poe, Hawthorne, Howells, James, Aldrich, Bret Harte, are admirable in manner, but they are thin in substance, not of large vitality. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z More than a generation ago this magazine was printing the stories of Bret Harte—stories that revealed with great accuracy and skill and sympathy the spirit of the California mining camp. Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z Bret Harte found in California ore of a different kind than his maddened contemporaries sought; his early tales had all the charm of something new and strange. Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z "Well," said his visitor, who was none other than Bret Harte, "I am the man." Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes 2011-11-01T02:00:25.563Z This morning," says the heroine in Bret Harte's parody of Jane Eyre, "this morning he flung his boot at me! Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature 2011-10-29T02:00:13.050Z Bret Harte created a California that never existed, and Indian gentlemen, Caucasian and Hindoo, tell us that Kipling invented an army and an empire unknown to geographers and war-offices. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z While the work of Bret Harte perhaps most strikingly illustrates this power of authentic portrayal of experience and place, there are scores of Atlantic stories that employ the same general method. Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z What Bret Harte made out of California Mr. Kipling made out of India; at the beginning he was a "sectional writer," who, with the instinct of genius, made his literary opportunity out of his environment. Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z The other two stories are "Thankful Blossom", by Bret Harte, and "Hannah Arnett's Faith", a Centennial Story, by Miss Holdich, which latter, as a singular history attaches to it, we shall give at length. Authors and Writers Associated with Morristown With a Chapter on Historic Morristown 2011-10-25T02:00:25.713Z Bret Harte's "Luck of Roaring Camp" is an interesting picture of Western life, and opens a new vein of fiction. The World's Best Books : A Key to the Treasures of Literature 2011-10-20T02:00:20.857Z Dickens, who writes of London, influences Bret Harte, who writes of California, and Bret Harte influences Kipling, who writes of India. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z Of the classic stories which admirably illustrate this method of securing a unity of impression through concentrated character interest, we like to revert to Bret Harte's Tennessee's Partner. Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z His treatment of women, for example, compares unfavourably with that shown in the frankest tales of Bret Harte. Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z As for Revolutionary New Jersey poems, abundant as the material is for inspiration, Bret Harte's "Caldwell of Springfield" seems to be one of very few. Authors and Writers Associated with Morristown With a Chapter on Historic Morristown 2011-10-25T02:00:25.713Z By his side there were several tattered, well-read volumes—‘Vanity Fair,’ ‘Elia,’ some of Bret Harte’s books; and Whyte Melville’s ‘Bones and I,’ and in his hand he had a crumpled home letter. Luck at the Diamond Fields 2011-10-06T02:00:43.067Z California did not "produce" Bret Harte; the power of Dickens was greater than that of the Sierras and the Golden Gate. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z Bret Harte had lived and breathed the grim and romantic spirit of this environment. Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z Mark Twain’s and Bret Harte’s writings are universally read, and the South Africans say that all they need to open up the country’s interests is about “twenty-five ship-loads of live Yankees.” Yankee Girls in Zulu Land 2011-08-31T02:01:39.710Z Bret Harte's publications include besides "Condensed Novels", "Thankful Blossom", and others already mentioned, several volumes of Poems issued at different periods: among them are "Songs of the Sierras" and "Echoes of the Foot Hills". Authors and Writers Associated with Morristown With a Chapter on Historic Morristown 2011-10-25T02:00:25.713Z The Time is the present, about 11 P. M. This is not a Bret Harte play, nor is it designed for W. S. Hart. Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-08-08T02:00:15.947Z Rocky seemed to me to have stepped into our life out of the pages of Bret Harte. Jock of the Bushveld 2011-08-04T02:00:24.987Z “A regular Bret Harte character—queen of the mining camp,” said Jennie. Ruth Fielding In the Saddle College Girls in the Land of Gold 2011-06-14T02:00:22.083Z Words and air, said Mr Bret Harte, were strangely familiar to him; then, after a moment's reflection, he remembered hearing this identical lullaby sung amongst his own kindred in the Far West of America. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z I remain, dear madam, Yours very sincerely, Bret Harte. Authors and Writers Associated with Morristown With a Chapter on Historic Morristown 2011-10-25T02:00:25.713Z Do you know how Bret Harte describes the adulteress? Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-08-08T02:00:15.947Z He has been passing through the storied land of Bret Harte, and is permeated with a sense of its beauty and romance. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z Bret Harte, the celebrated American author, delivered, at Noverre’s Rooms, Norwich, a lecture descriptive of early Californian life, entitled, “The Argonauts of ’49.” Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 2011-05-25T02:00:19.650Z He is equally dissatisfied with this type of hero found in the pages of Byron or Bret Harte. Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z As a poet, we represent Bret Harte by his "Plain Language from Truthful James," better known as "The Heathen Chinee." Authors and Writers Associated with Morristown With a Chapter on Historic Morristown 2011-10-25T02:00:25.713Z Similarly take some of the instances of self-sacrifice by the common people which Bret Harte and O. Henry delighted in depicting. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z He had read the tales in a sailor's mission to which somebody had donated a mutilated Tauchnitz edition of Bret Harte's writings. Notes of an Itinerant Policeman 2011-01-24T03:00:19.187Z Nobody hated injustice or cruelty more than Bret Harte, and in his editorial capacity he scathingly condemned the murder of Indians which occurred in the neighborhood of Eureka. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Notice, for example, in Bret Harte’s “In a Tunnel,” the look of surprise and astonishment followed by the words given with long rising inflections: “Didn’t know Flynn?” Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z It seems like taking a mean advantage of a tender heart, I know—what Bret Harte would call "playing it low down" on it; but what else could I do? Life on the Stage In 1850 it gave no space to fiction; now it offers Kipling, Howells, Stockton, Bret Harte, Anthony Hope, Crockett, Bourget and many others of the best of the contemporary writers of fiction. The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses In Chicago I met, one day, a tramp who had just discovered Bret Harte, and he thought that "Tennessee's Partner" and "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" were recent stories. Notes of an Itinerant Policeman 2011-01-24T03:00:19.187Z The Luck of Roaring Camp gave Bret Harte a literary reputation, but this poem made him famous. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z I pointed out that Bret Harte had been as realistic; but they did not understand literature on that committee. My First Book: the experiences of Walter Besant, James Payn, W. Clark Russell, Grant Allen, Hall Caine, George R. Sims, Rudyard Kipling, A. Conan Doyle, M.E. Braddon, F.W. Robinson, H. Rider Haggard, R.M. Ballantyne, I. Zangwill, Morley Roberts, David Christie Murray, Marie Corelli, Jerome K. Jerome, John Strange Winter, Bret Harte, "Q.", Robert Buchanan, Robert Louis Stevenson, with an introduction by Jerome K. Jerome. At six in the morning the heat was distinctly unpleasant, but seeing with the eye of the flesh that I was in Bret Harte's own country, I rejoiced. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel Bret Harte has somewhere made a character say something about "poor lovely helpless woman." The American Country Girl There were guns and fishing-tackle on the walls, shelves of reliable American fiction—Mark Twain, Melville, Stockton, and a well-worn edition of Bret Harte. Doom of the House of Duryea Bret Harte has described a California snow-storm not only in The Outcasts of Poker Flat, but in several other stories, notably in Gabriel Conroy, Snow-Bound at Eagle’s, and A Night on the Divide. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Its foundation dates back to a summer which brought Bret Harte and Dr. J. G. Holland to Newport, and with them Professors Lane and Goodwin of Harvard University. Reminiscences, 1819-1899 Yon yellow sun melts in the sea; A somber ship sweeps silently Past Alcatraz tow'rd Orient skies— A mist is rising to the eyes— Good-by, Bret Harte, good night, good night! The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 4 June 1906 The romance of the Russian courtier and the fair Californian furnished to Bret Harte the theme for some of his most beautiful verse. The Story of Sitka The Historic Outpost of the Northwest Coast This sketch gained a quicker popularity than her longer novels, and drew forth warm eulogies from critics so far apart in standard as Ruskin, Leslie Stephen and Bret Harte. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. The phrase was not invented by Bret Harte. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z But that she should write him a cool and semi-humorous letter, showing no more agitation than one of Bret Harte’s heroes who is about to be hanged—that certainly capped the climax of eccentric behavior. Stories by American Authors, Volume 10 When word came to Joaquin Miller, in May, 1902, that his friend, Bret Harte, was dead, he embalmed his grief in the wonderful poem of farewell here printed. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 4 June 1906 The best tale of a bear is perhaps Bret Harte's "Baby Sylvester," which will be found in one of his volumes of short stories. What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes Irving could by no possibility ever have written the "Heathen Chinee," or those other bits of compressed humor called Poems; but Bret Harte is not exactly a lineal descendant of Irving. Home Life of Great Authors Unquestionably the best of these stories is the first one, and if we should also set this down as the best of all Bret Harte’s stories, we could not go far wrong. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z It is capital reading, and will more firmly establish Mr. Stockton in his place with Bret Harte among contemporary American writers. Mrs. Cliff's Yacht The issue was devoted to the memory of Bret Harte, and included reprints of "The Luck of Roaring Camp," "The Outcasts of Poker Flat," "Plain Language from Truthful James," and other of Harte's best work. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 4 June 1906 Really great debaters, like the animal reconstructed, as Bret Harte relates, before “The Society on the Stanislaw,” are “extremely rare.” The Art of Lecturing Revised Edition In places the manner suggests an Anglo-Indian Bret Harte, and there is perhaps too great an abundance of phrases and local allusions which will be dark sayings to the uninitiated. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, April 5, 1890 One who witnessed Chaffee’s rescue of his partner gives some details of the affair, which show how closely Bret Harte kept to the facts until he saw occasion to depart from them. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Hawthorne re-created for us the America of the past with the incomparable grace of a very perfect artist, but Mr. Bret Harte’s emphasized modernity has, in its own sphere, won equal, or almost equal, triumphs. A Critic in Pall Mall Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies Tall and loose-built, with an authentic Bret Harte quality in action and speech, he can flash a glance of shrewdness or humour from the deep eyes under their shaggy, pent-house brows. Westward with the Prince of Wales It is the secret of the curiosity with which we observe the gamblers and miners and stage-drivers described by Bret Harte. The American Mind The E. T. Earl Lectures There is hardly an old town in the whole Bret Harte country that has not its stories of the raiding during the winter of 1852-53. When the West Was Young In his Bohemian Days in San Francisco Bret Harte gives an account of the real person who was undoubtedly Jack Hamlin’s prototype. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z I didn't know such Bret Harte types existed any more. They of the High Trails Of course, you will make up your mind to be an author, a writer of short stories, a second Bret Harte. The Time of Roses Bret Harte, disciple of Dickens as he was, and Romantic as was his fashion of dressing up his miners and gamblers, was accurately faithful to the American feeling towards the "kid" and the "woman." The American Mind The E. T. Earl Lectures In poetry, however, Bret Harte, Joaquin Miller, and Walt Whitman were more to my way of thinking than either Poe or Emerson. A Son of the Middle Border That there should be any doubt as to the author’s attitude upon this point shows how carefully Bret Harte keeps his own personality in the background. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Of course they're not as they were in Bret Harte's time, but they are said to be rough and dangerous. They of the High Trails Since Bret Harte and the Forty-niner no one has written of California life with the vigor and accuracy of Mr. Norris. The Third Degree A Narrative of Metropolitan Life Thus the levelling quality of Bret Harte's humor bridges social and moral chasms. The American Mind The E. T. Earl Lectures Prue and I and The Blithedale Romance were on an equal footing, so far as our game went, and Howells, Bret Harte and Dickens were all of far-off romantic horizon. A Son of the Middle Border This, the Reader need not be reminded, is the exact costume of Colonel Starbottle,—the “low Byronic collar,” which Bret Harte mentions, being the only item omitted. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Bret Harte lived his last years at a house on the hillside near, and is buried in the churchyard. Highways and Byways in Surrey Before 1890 the fame of their author, Bret Harte, was secure. The New Nation Pity those babes don’t know their Bret Harte any better. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 Bret Harte, the writer, was born in 1839 in Albany, where his father was teacher of Greek in the Albany College, a small seminary. The Greatest Highway in the World Historical, Industrial and Descriptive Information of the Towns, Cities and Country Passed Through Between New York and Chicago Via the New York Central Lines. Based on the Encyclopaedia Britannica. The callousness which Liberty Jones showed at the death of her father was not in the least exaggerated by Bret Harte. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z But the Bret Harte of The Luck of Roaring Camp and The Heathen Chinee does not, of course, belong to Frimley; those were earlier successes which he never equalled later. Highways and Byways in Surrey Some Americans suggested to me that he was the Sheriff; the regular hard-riding, free-shooting Sheriff of Bret Harte and my boyhood's dreams. What I Saw in America “Digression this: “After Bret Harte died, many stories were written by San Franciscans who knew him when he first put in an appearance on the Pacific Coast. When Winter Comes to Main Street Bret Harte lived in Albany until his 17th year. The Greatest Highway in the World Historical, Industrial and Descriptive Information of the Towns, Cities and Country Passed Through Between New York and Chicago Via the New York Central Lines. Based on the Encyclopaedia Britannica. One of the best scenes in all Bret Harte is that in which Oakhurst bursts in upon Mrs. Decker, recounts her guilt and treachery, and declares his intention to kill her and then himself. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z His delight was to be accused of being an unscrupulous gambler—of the type described by Bret Harte. Reminiscences of Queensland 1862-1869 It’s romantic enough to be the back-drop in a Bret Harte play. The Forester's Daughter A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range He now starred her in a play by Bret Harte called "Sue." Charles Frohman: Manager and Man The charm of Bret Harte's stories lies in their originality of conception, their well-defined local color, and the chaste richness of their literary style. The Writer, Volume VI, April 1892. A Monthly Magazine to Interest and Help All Literary Workers There is a classic simplicity, not only in Bret Harte’s account of Oakhurst, but in the whole telling of the story, and a depth of feeling which is more than classic. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z It was the old Bret Harte days multiplied by ten. The Desert Fiddler "The only square thing by you," said Skippy with a perfect Bret Harte manner. Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World I pointed out Bret Harte had been as realistic, but they did not understand literature on that committee. The Idler Magazine, Volume III., July 1893 An Illustrated Monthly One man favored the Bret Harte style of bad man; another adhered to the Henry Wallace Phillips brand; while still another insisted on following the Remington school. At Good Old Siwash As a London critic very neatly said, “With this dainty and delicate California desperado, Bret Harte vanquished forever the turgid villains of Ainsworth and Lytton.” The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z But his realism is that of Dickens and Bret Harte and Kipling rather than that of Mrs. Freeman and Arthur Morrison and the Russian story-tellers. Harbor Tales Down North With an Appreciation by Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D. In "Gabriel Conroy" Bret Harte brings before us the wild and lawless life of California a half century ago. Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism She is some traveller like myself," he said, "Bret Harte to the contrary, notwithstanding, the wilderness does not produce maids of her evident refinement and grace. The Tyranny of the Dark Other benefactors are commemorated in derringer, first recorded in Bret Harte, and bowie, which occurs in Dickens' American Notes. The Romance of Words (4th ed.) In these passages Bret Harte might be accused of admiring Jack Hamlin in the wrong place. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Like Dickens and like Bret Harte, Duncan was a frank moralist. Harbor Tales Down North With an Appreciation by Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D. The suggestion for The Outcasts of Poker Flat was found therein by Bret Harte, as previously noted. The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 He writes the poem first in the style of Swinburne, then of Bret Harte, then of Austin Dobson, then of Oliver Goldsmith and finally of Walt Whitman. Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day Top This third party belonged to that peculiar race immortalized by Bret Harte. The Young Miner or Tom Nelson in California Bret Harte did not describe perfect characters or mere types, destitute of individual peculiarities, but real men and women. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z In the delicacy and sensibility of his delineation of women he undoubtedly surpasses Bret Harte, most of whose women are either exaggerated or colorless. Harbor Tales Down North With an Appreciation by Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D. Bret Harte's capitalization of "Sierras" may be safely challenged. The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 The Poem by Bret Harte on this event is reproduced below: What the Engines Said. The Story of the First Trans-Continental Railroad Its Projectors, Construction and History Judged by her Bret Harte, the place ought to be picturesque. The Highgrader The point of view is much like that of the landlord of a hotel in Virginia City, where Bret Harte was once a guest. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Bret Harte, for whom and for whose works Mr Stevenson had a sincere admiration, also alludes graphically to the curious scenic effects of the mist rising from the Pacific. Robert Louis Stevenson It may not be inappropriate here to note that the baby referred to in the two immediately preceding pages is none other than the original of The Luck in Bret Harte's Luck of Roaring Camp. The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 The figures which Bret Harte sees through a haze of romance are to him essentially coarse. My Contemporaries In Fiction A very pious Presbyterian publication, in alluding to something of the kind, said that “Mr. Leland, because he is the author of Bret Harte, thinks himself justified in publishing any trash of this description.” Memoirs Bret Harte’s characters are amenable to no laws except the improvised laws of the camp, and the final arbiter is either the six-shooter or the rope of Judge Lynch. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Debt, friction with the new owner of The Overland, and a growing lack of sympathy with the late settlers, caused Bret Harte to leave California in 1871. The Short-story She was the long-time friend of Bret Harte, and from her he gathered a wealth of knowledge that served him well. The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 Mr. Bret Harte has made California his own, but it is not the California of to-day. My Contemporaries In Fiction In fact, many people really believed that Bret Harte was a nom de plume or the title of a poem. Memoirs The moment when this strange planet first swam into Bret Harte’s ken seems to have been seized and recorded with accuracy by his friend, Mr. Noah Brooks. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z When The Overland Monthly was founded in the next year Bret Harte became its first editor. The Short-story It is referred to here for the reason that in the sequel of the hanging Bret Harte found more than a suggestion for his finale of The Outcasts of Poker Flat. The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 Bret Harte's first book was something like a revelation. My Contemporaries In Fiction Owing to the resemblance between the words Bret and Breit there was a confusion of names, and my photograph was to be seen about town, with the name of Bret Harte attached to it. Memoirs Bret Harte’s Youngest Prospector in Calaveras was not an uncommon child. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Bret Harte Mr. Oakhurst was right in supposing that he was included in this category. The Short-story Compare Bret Harte's lines,— Above the pines the moon was slowly drifting, The river sang below; The dim Sierras, far beyond, uplifting Their minarets of snow. The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 Perhaps the Bret Harte atmosphere appealed to her. The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert Compare, for instance, the admirable story "Boule de Suif," perhaps the best story which Maupassant ever wrote, with a story of somewhat similar motive—Bret Harte's "Outcasts of Poker Flat." The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 Boule de Suif and Other Stories In Bret Harte’s best stories the presence of the scene painter, the stage carpenter and the stage manager jars on our consciousness.... The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Bret Harte's California stories were vivid, highly-colored pictures of life in the mining camps and raw towns of the Pacific coast. Brief History of English and American Literature In Bret Harte's Mary McGillup, there is a notable description of calmness in most trying circumstances. Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers M’liss, brave, arch, and loving girl of the Wild West; the heroine of one of Bret Harte’s most popular sketches. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 Read the Introduction and see what Bret Harte added to the idea of the short story. Short Stories of Various Types An English writer once remarked, somewhat hysterically, “Bret Harte had to deal with countries and communities of an almost unexampled laxity, a laxity passing the laxity of savages, the laxity of civilized men grown savage.” The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Bret Harte: "Colonel Starbottle's Client;" "In the Hollow of the Hills;" "The Luck of Roaring Camp;" "Mrs. Skagg's Husbands;" "Tales of the Argonauts;" "Thankful Blossom;" "The Story of a Mine." Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story It was like a chapter from a story by Bret Harte. Wayside Courtships It made her think of her old friend Joseph, in the Bret Harte poem, who Swam the Elk's creek and all that, Just to dance with old Folingsbee's daughter, The Lily of Poverty Flat. Quin Bret Harte followed in this country with short stories that brought out, less precisely, the same idea of the short story, with the addition of local color, the atmosphere of California and the West. Short Stories of Various Types In the fourth story, Uncle Jim and Uncle Billy, published much later, Bret Harte takes the subject in a lighter vein. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z The stories of Miss Wilkins, Octave Thanet, Bret Harte, and Joel Chandler Harris are full of excellent examples of local color. Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story Captain Osborn and Bret Harte went there one day and took a meal, and in the course of it Osborn fished up an interesting reminiscence of a dozen years before and told about it. Chapters from My Autobiography In the seventies and eighties, with the appearance of such men as Henry James, William Dean Howells, Mark Twain and Bret Harte, a better day seemed to be dawning. A Book of Prefaces The stories by Katherine Mayo, Bret Harte, and Nathaniel Hawthorne are used by permission of, and by special arrangement with, Houghton Mifflin Company, the authorized publishers. Short Stories of Various Types In An Apostle of the Tules Bret Harte has described a camp-meeting of Calvinistic families whose gloom was heightened by malaria contracted from the Stockton marshes. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Of poems on Dickens' death the very best is Bret Harte's Dickens in Camp. Modern English Books of Power And he quoted Bret Harte: "For there be women fair as she, Whose verbs and nouns do more agree." The Danger Mark Bret Harte and Frank Stockton are so eminently short-story writers that the longer their stories become, the nearer do they approach the brink of failure. The Land of Contrasts A Briton's View of His American Kin Blackguardism and heroism very seldom go together, Bret Harte and other writers notwithstanding. The Story of Baden-Powell 'The Wolf That Never Sleeps' Bret Harte’s treatment of the Spanish priest in California is very different. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Sandy Bar:—The imaginary mining-camp in which Bret Harte laid the scenes of many of his stories. dungaree:—A coarse kind of unbleached cotton cloth. Modern Prose And Poetry; For Secondary Schools Edited With Notes, Study Helps, And Reading Lists On seeing Bret Harte come upon the Bench. Interludes being Two Essays, a Story, and Some Verses It contains tales in the manner of Hawthorne, Poe, and Bret Harte, which critics have complimented as being equal to the work of these masters. Short Story Classics (American) Vol. 2 If Mr. Bret Harte’s words did not reach all his audience, his writings at least have come home to most English readers. Lost Leaders Mr. Pemberton, commenting on this explanation says, “I can readily picture Bret Harte, as the unwelcome dinner hour approached, making excuses to himself for himself and conjuring up that hitherto unsuggested ‘guide.’” The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Gilbert, Austin Dobson, Bret Harte, F. Anstey, Dr. Walter C. Smith, and many other graceful and delightful social satirists whose verses are household words amongst us. English Satires It was when we were introduced to Bret Harte’s gambler: For ways that are dark and tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar. The Unpopular Review, Volume II Number 3 Bret Harte's California stories were vivid, highly colored pictures of life in the mining camps and raw towns of the Pacific coast. Initial Studies in American Letters We own that we prefer Bret Harte’s Mr. Rawjester, who wearily ran the poker through his hair, and wiped his boots on the dress of his beloved. Lost Leaders The commotion thus caused extended even to England, and a London paper spoke humorously, but kindly, of the “Bret Harte circular,” which recorded the daily events of the author’s life. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Probably that is why Bret Harte calls him "coward of heroic size," but Bret never was very intimately acquainted with a marauding old ruffian of the range. Bears I Have Met—and Others What were those lines of Bret Harte's about the humming of the battle bees?... With Steyn and De Wet He has described our Yankee folk with as clever humour as Bret Harte delineated Rocky Mountain life. Memories and Anecdotes Whence, then, come Artemus Ward, Mark Twain, and Mr. Bret Harte, who are probably the American humorists whose popularity is widest? Lost Leaders Bret Harte was taken to see Emerson at Concord, but probably without much profit on either side, though with some entertainment for the younger man. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z From Pike County, in that State, they wended their way to California, to appear in Mr. Bret Harte's stories as "Pikes." The Hoosier Schoolmaster A Story of Backwoods Life in Indiana The other night," wrote Bret Harte, "I took up Longman's Magazine* and began to lazily read something about the Spanish Armada. The Life of Froude I am sorry," cried Jenks, desisting from further efforts, "that I have not recently read one of Bret Harte's novels, or I would speak to you in the language of the mining camp. The Wings of the Morning Mr. Bret Harte’s own fun is much more English and less thoroughly Yankee than that of his contemporaries. Lost Leaders For the next seven years of Bret Harte’s life there is not much to record. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Some of Mr. Bret Harte's brief and powerful tales had already foreshadowed this movement toward a larger rendering of our life. The Hoosier Schoolmaster A Story of Backwoods Life in Indiana Bret Harte told him that even those who dissented most widely from his opinions admired his "grit." The Life of Froude Mr. Bret Harte’s Dickens in Camp, for instance, is completely spoiled by two ridiculous misprints. Reviews The changed atmosphere, the new conditions, do, however, make an immense superficial difference between the humour even of Mr. Bret Harte and that of English writers. Lost Leaders Bret Harte had a great admiration for Froude’s writings; and when the two men met they formed a friendship which was severed only by death. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z American humour has its own peculiar excellence, but it has nothing in particular to do with Bret Harte. Varied Types The tanned gentlemen standing about look like California miners, as you see them in the illustrations to Bret Harte's stories. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 Hawthorne re-created for us the America of the past with the incomparable grace of a very perfect artist, but Mr. Bret Harte’s emphasised modernity has, in its own sphere, won equal, or almost equal, triumphs. Reviews "In Yosemite Shadows" shows us the young Stoddard full of boyish enthusiasm—he could not have been more than twenty when it was written and published, in the old Overland, then edited by Bret Harte. In the Footprints of the Padres It is this sincerity that sanctifies the rapidity and frankness of Bret Harte’s love-affairs. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z San Francisco, the capital of the Bret Harte country, is a city typifying novelty in a manner in which it is typified by few modern localities. Varied Types Made selection of poems to which Bret Harte's name was attached, known as "Outcroppings." The California Birthday Book Like Bret Harte's hero of Downs Flat, when Russell dug for water his luck was so contrary that he struck diamonds. Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 1 They picture life as a highly-accomplished woman knew it in the camps and among the people whom Bret Harte has immortalized. In the Footprints of the Padres And yet the critic tells us about the “perverse romanticism” of Mr. Bret Harte’s California tales! The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Bret Harte had, to express the matter briefly but more or less essentially, the power of laughing not only at things, but also with them. Varied Types With my advent at Las Palomas, there were less than half a dozen books on the ranch, among them a copy of Bret Harte's poems and a large Bible. A Texas Matchmaker I have an idea he was the original of the man whom Bret Harte made refer to the Greek hero as "old Ashheels." A Backward Glance at Eighty Recollections & comment Beating about the woods, Bret Harte in hand, he had managed to discover an old woodsman who still held to the ancient industries of his youth. Laugh and Live The moral of Bret Harte’s stories, it has often been said, is that even bad men have a good side, and are frequently capable of performing noble acts. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Bret Harte had his own peculiar humour, but it had nothing in particular to do with American humour. Varied Types But Dolores is crumbling, and its services, still held, and its "Bells," of which Bret Harte sang so sweetly years ago, can not arrest its decay. By the Golden Gate That job I turned over to Bret Harte, who was clever and cultivated, but had not yet "caught on." A Backward Glance at Eighty Recollections & comment Bret Harte, for instance, is dead, and in the short story of western flavor he was a pioneer of mark, the founder of a genre: probably no other writer is so significant in his field. Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities This use of “Esquire,” by the way, was an English custom imported to California by way of the South, and many humorous examples of it may be found in Bret Harte. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z He is, of course, the coach-driver in the Bret Harte district. Varied Types Unlike Bret Harte, who was in many respects one of Kipling's ideals, he leaves his bad and coarse characters disreputable to the end. Short-Stories Before taking up the events related to my residence in San Francisco I wish to give my testimony concerning Bret Harte, perhaps the most interesting character associated with my sojourn in Humboldt. A Backward Glance at Eighty Recollections & comment An excellent example may be found in the flourishing cycle of stories which, while Bret Harte was celebrating California, grew up about the life of Southern plantations before the war. Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920) Nor is the hero himself made quite so real as are Bret Harte’s characters in general. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z With this distinctively American humour Bret Harte had little or nothing in common. Varied Types Near him, quietly sedate, absorbed in Macaulay, was Bret Harte. Port O' Gold A History-Romance of the San Francisco Argonauts It was early in 1857 that Bret Harte came to Humboldt County to visit his sister Margaret, and for a brief time and to a limited extent our lives touched. A Backward Glance at Eighty Recollections & comment But, at any rate, in New Zealand diggers did not use revolvers with the playful frequency of the Californians of Mr. Bret Harte. The Long White Cloud Bret Harte, as may be imagined, was not awed by his new and highly respectable surroundings. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z And the great glory and achievement of Bret Harte consists in this, that he realised that they do not become callous, supercilious, and cynical, but that they do become sentimental and romantic, and profoundly affectionate. Varied Types "Ah, yes, but Bret Harte is a genius." Port O' Gold A History-Romance of the San Francisco Argonauts No wonder that California and Bret Harte became familiar household words. A Backward Glance at Eighty Recollections & comment The fame which it gained, in its separate field, was as swift and widespread as that of Hawthorne's 'The Gentle Boy' or Bret Harte's 'Luck of Roaring Camp.' Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 That, Bret Harte told him, was the line he liked best of all his lines, and Lowell smoked, well content with the phrase. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z One of the worst of the disadvantages of the rich and random fertility of Bret Harte is the fact that it is very difficult to trace or recover all the stories that he has written. Varied Types "Dickens In Camp" is held by many admirers of Bret Harte to be his masterpiece of verse. Dickens in Camp Bret Harte was also gifted with an agreeable personality. A Backward Glance at Eighty Recollections & comment And he said it was a chance in a thousand, as all the camps were so orderly now, not as in Bret Harte, or as it was in his young days. Elizabeth Visits America It is needless to say that Bret Harte loved the theatre and had a keen appreciation of good acting. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Bret Harte had to deal with countries and communities of an almost unexampled laxity, a laxity passing the laxity of savages, the laxity of civilised men grown savage. Varied Types By reason of that gift of his Bret Harte has been popularly compared with his great contemporary beyond the seas, greatest of all sentimentalists among writers of fiction, Charles Dickens. Dickens in Camp Bret Harte had a very unusual combination of sympathetic insight, emotional feeling, and keen sense of the dramatic. A Backward Glance at Eighty Recollections & comment By Bret Harte, as adapted & pub. in Classics illustrated by Albert L. Kanter. U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1977 July - December It is seldom that Bret Harte fails to show some sympathy with the men and women whom he describes, or at least some relenting consciousness that they could not help being what they were. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z There are more than nine hundred and ninety-nine excellent reasons which we could all have for admiring the work of Bret Harte. Varied Types This letter was written shortly before Dickens' death and, unfortunately, did not reach Bret Harte until sometime after that sad event. Dickens in Camp Bret Harte at our hands needs not to be idealized, but he does deserve to be justly, gratefully, and fittingly realized. A Backward Glance at Eighty Recollections & comment A bronze tablet in memory of Bret Harte is on the Post street facade of the Bohemian Club, near Taylor. Fascinating San Francisco The one kind of woman that did not attract Bret Harte as a subject for literature was the conventional woman of the world. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z And these two qualities were knit into the closest texture of Bret Harte's humour. Varied Types When word of the passing of "The Master," as he reverently styled him, reached Bret Harte he was in San Rafael. Dickens in Camp He had called upon his prot�g�, Bret Harte, for a poem for the occasion. A Backward Glance at Eighty Recollections & comment The streets nearby, where stand the few buildings that escaped the fire, echo the footsteps of Stevenson, of Mark Twain and Bret Harte. Fascinating San Francisco But these women do not bear the stamp of Bret Harte’s genius. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Bret Harte had a real power of imitating great authors, as in his parodies on Dumas, on Victor Hugo, on Charlotte Brontë. Varied Types Late in the '70s, while on his way to a consulship in Germany, Bret Harte visited London for the first time. Dickens in Camp He nods to me and I introduce Bret Harte, secretary to the Superintendent of the Mint, and author of the clever "Condensed Novels" being printed in the Californian. A Backward Glance at Eighty Recollections & comment Perhaps when Bret Harte referred to San Francisco as "serene, indifferent of Fate," he was thinking of Sidney Smith's declaration: Fascinating San Francisco Bret Harte does not even represent him as a gentleman, but only as an approach to one. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z And it is this vulgar misunderstanding which we find in most parody—which we find in all American parody—but which we never find in the parodies of Bret Harte. Varied Types The spirit of Dickens breathes through the poems and stories of Bret Harte just as the spirit of Bret Harte breathes through the poems and stories of Kipling. Dickens in Camp He was a fellow-worker with Bret Harte in the Mint, and also on the Overland Monthly, contributing "Favoring Female Conventualism" to the first number. A Backward Glance at Eighty Recollections & comment We turned to the massive façade of the old church, where hung the three bells, of which Bret Harte wrote. The Lure of San Francisco A Romance Amid Old Landmarks So close, even in small incidents, are Bret Harte’s stories to the reality of California life! The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z The same general characteristic of sympathy amounting to reverence marks Bret Harte's humour in his better-known class of works, the short stories. Varied Types Bret Harte had a very pretty satirical vein which might easily have developed, have made him an author of satire rather than of sentiment. Dickens in Camp Bret Harte has seized upon the name as the theme of tales and ballads of the "Forty-niners." Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook As for me, I listen with awe, content that my medium is verse, and that the fashions of Hood, Thackeray and Bret Harte are the fashions of to-day. Ballads of a Bohemian The truth is, Bret Harte had the moral indifference, the spiritual serenity of a Pagan, and, as a necessary concomitant, that superficial conception of human life and destiny which belongs to Paganism. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z American humour is purely exaggerative; Bret Harte's humour was sympathetic and analytical. Varied Types Mr. Pemberton states, also, that Bret Harte always felt that he owed a deep debt of gratitude to Charles Dickens. Dickens in Camp A reporter asked me what I thought of the city, and I made answer suavely that it was hallowed ground to me, because of Bret Harte. American Notes At the end of an hour we were in the oaks and sycamores; at the end of two we were in the pines and low mountains of Bret Harte's Forty-Nine. The Mountains In making his gamblers good-looking, Bret Harte only followed tradition, and the tradition is founded on fact. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z He reminds me of Bret Harte and not a bit of Stevenson, to whom some of them compare him. Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis Small wonder, then, that, Bret Harte no matter how unconsciously, should have adopted here and there something of the style and some of the mannerisms of Dickens. Dickens in Camp Here is still the memory of Bret Harte and Mark Twain. Bohemian San Francisco Its restaurants and their most famous recipes—The elegant art of dining. The flood of dialect stories which appeared after 1876 may seem at first glance to be mere variations of Bret Harte's local-color stories, but they are something more and better than that. Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived Nothing could be further from Bret Harte’s manner of thinking, and yet he has depicted the type with his usual insight, though perhaps not quite with his usual sympathy. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z I was not at all certain that I should not wish very earnestly that he might be interrupted in what Bret Harte would call the "subsequent proceedings." Blindfolded The story of his visit is well told by Bret Harte in his beautiful poem, "Concepcion de Arguello." History of California Bret Harte is probably as valuable a witness as could be summoned in this case. Confessions and Criticisms It was Bret Harte's peculiar power to find tenderness and fineness of feeling among rough men. Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools Of all Bret Harte’s stories this is the most tragic, a terrible fate overtaking every one of the four characters who figure in it. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z When Bret Harte visited me at Leeds in the early 'eighties, his arrival caused what the reporters describe as a "sensation" in the town. Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885 Two trains were there with their engines, as Bret Harte describes them, "facing on the single track, half a world behind each back." History of California Carlyle wrote the History of the French Revolution, and Bret Harte has written the History of the Argonauts; but it is absurd to suppose that a national literature could be founded on either episode. Confessions and Criticisms No; I'd have good cheerful books of the best and brightest sides of human nature—Charles Dickens, and Mark Twain, and Bret Harte, and those men. Children of the Bush It can easily be imagined, although Mr. Howells does not say so, that the atmosphere of Cambridge was far from being congenial to Bret Harte. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Haworth, Author's visit to, Bret Harte's visit to. Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885 After Poe and Hawthorne almost the first author in America to make a vertiginous impression by his short stories was Bret Harte. The Best American Humorous Short Stories The Homeric California of which Bret Harte is the reporter does not seem to me in the closest sense American. Confessions and Criticisms He knew how the cowboys looked, because he had seen Buffalo Bill's show; and he knew how they talked, because he had read accurate authors of the school of Bret Harte. The Claim Jumpers California was always the land of romance, and Bret Harte in his poems and stories touched upon its whole history from the beginning. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z The other members of the party were William Black, Bret Harte, who had not long before taken up his residence in England, and C. O. Shepard, the American Consul at Bradford. Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885 Johnston must be ranked almost with Bret Harte as a pioneer in "local color" work, although his work had little recognition until his Dukesborough Tales were republished by Harper & Brothers in 1883. The Best American Humorous Short Stories General Characteristics.—Kipling has carried to their highest development the principles of the Bret Harte School of short story writers. Halleck's New English Literature The time and place are those that Bret Harte has made peculiarly his own. Short Stories Old and New The Reader need not be reminded how often Bret Harte speaks of Junipéro Serra, the Franciscan Friar who founded the Spanish Missions in California. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Presently we became aware that he was going to and fro upon the platform telling everybody who Bret Harte was; so that in a short time we found ourselves surrounded by a staring crowd. Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885 Not even Bret Harte was able to reproduce the talk of children whose fathers may have come from Kentucky or Massachusetts, and their mothers from Louisiana. Bunch Grass A Chronicle of Life on a Cattle Ranch The sketches of Bret Harte, Hayes, and Miller have not exhausted this field by any means. The Mountains of California Bret Harte had just written the last-named story when he began the composition of "The Outcasts of Poker Flat." Short Stories Old and New A nature so impressionable as Bret Harte’s, so responsive, would insensibly have been affected by his surroundings, and the more so because he had in himself no strong, intellectual basis. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z And this was the fashion in which Bret Harte saw Haworth Parsonage. Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885 California life in the early times is described in Kirk Munroe's Golden Days of '49, and in Bret Harte's Luck of Roaring Camp and Tales of the Argonauts. A Brief History of the United States Bret Harte was there, a dapper little man, whose shoes were always a size too small, but popular with women as he played an excellent game of croquet and talked as delightfully as he wrote. Sleeping Fires: a Novel Bret Harte, who has put him into several stories, says of him in another place: "Go where he would and with whom, he was always a notable man in ten thousand." Short Stories Old and New The California chapter in Bret Harte’s life was closed, and it would have been painful for him to reopen it even by the writing of a letter. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z We heard him, in a stage whisper, announce that Bret Harte was there. Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885 Bret Harte sacrificed more and more of the native flavour of his genius in his progressive preoccupation with the more sophisticated refinements of the purely literary. Mark Twain He came gaily to his fate filled with high hopes of owning his own newspaper before long and ranking as the leading journalist in the great little city made famous by gold and Bret Harte. Sleeping Fires: a Novel Hawthorne, Emerson, Howells, Bret Harte, Sam Slick, are among many writers who illustrate the raciness and freshness of American production. The Intellectual Development of the Canadian People What attention should be paid to a critic who prefers the effeminate subtleties of Henry James to the wholesome pathos of Bret Harte! The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Bret Harte wrote stories filled with the humor and the pathos of the rough mining camps of the far West. History of American Literature Before leaving the West to settle permanently in the East, Mark Twain was associated for a short time with the 'Overland Monthly', edited by Bret Harte. Mark Twain Shades of Bret Harte, true child of genius, what a pity you ever forsook these scenes to dwindle in the foreign air of the Atlantic coast! Round the World "The heathen Chinee," and "Ways that are dark, and tricks that are vain," are from Bret Harte's Truthful James. How to Speak and Write Correctly Bret Harte himself records the fact that it was the generous gift of a San Francisco gambler which started the Sanitary Commission in the Civil War, so far at least as California was concerned. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Like Bret Harte and Mark Twain, Riley had only a common school education. History of American Literature At last, 'A Mediaeval Romance'—a story which has been said to contain the germ of 'A Connecticut Yankee', because of its burlesque of mediaevalism—won the enthusiastic approval of Bret Harte. Mark Twain America had in Bret Harte its most distinctively national poet. Round the World There is no reason on earth why a shoeblack should not read Schiller, or moralise as he does in Bret Harte's parody of Bulwer Lytton. Without Prejudice Nevertheless, contemporary with the feverish life of the mining camp and the city was the life of the farm and the vineyard; and this, too, was not neglected by Bret Harte. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Bret Harte's pages afford us the rare privilege of again communing with genuine primitive feeling, with eternal human qualities, not deflected or warped by convention. History of American Literature Of humour in its highest phase," he says, "perhaps Bret Harte may be accounted the most puissant master among our contemporary American writers. Mark Twain When we give literature in America the same opportunity to invent, to experiment, that we have already given journalism, there will be more legitimate successors to Irving, to Hawthorne, to Poe and Bret Harte. Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism They rise heavenward to the sparkling crested pinnacles where Bret Harte's poet fancy sees in long years after the "minarets of snow." The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance With his intimate friends Bret Harte ever delighted to talk enthusiastically of Longfellow, and would declare that his poems had greatly influenced his thoughts and life. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Bret Harte's best work is as bracing, as tonic, as instinct with the spirit of vigorous youth, as the mountain air which has never before been breathed. History of American Literature Like his contemporaries, Artemus Ward and Bret Harte, he first found free play for his comic intransigeance in the broad freedom of the journal for the masses. Mark Twain The same may be said of Bret Harte, also one of those great short story tellers who proved himself incapable of a longer flight. Through the Magic Door It is now nearly forty years since "The Luck of Roaring Camp" appeared, and a line of successors, more or less worthy, have been following along the trail blazed by Bret Harte. The Case of Summerfield The atmosphere of Boston was hardly more congenial to Bret Harte than that of Cambridge. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Bret Harte applied his magnifying glass to unusual crises in the strange lives of the western pioneers. History of American Literature On his return to San Francisco, he dropped in one morning to see Bret Harte, and told him this story. Mark Twain On the other hand, men who have been very great in the short story, Stevenson, Poe, and Bret Harte, have written no great book. Through the Magic Door From this simple material the imagination of Bret Harte spun the characters, incidents, and motives that his genius wove into an exquisite fabric, an idyl of blind, unreasoning love of man for man. Tennessee's Partner It is highly probable that in his own mind, though perhaps half unconsciously, Bret Harte excused himself by the “old literary tradition” for his remissness in paying his debts. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Bret Harte was something of a lion in a congenial English literary set, and he never returned to America. History of American Literature I got the distinct impression that Stephen Gillis disliked the notoriety his brother had gained, through the fact that his name had become indissolubly linked with the "Truthful James" of Bret Harte's verses. A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country Hence the letter and consequent trouble to good Jack Hallowell, who as per usual "done his damnedest for a friend," as Bret Harte says, in writing a perfect epitaph. Letters of Franklin K. Lane The fact is that Bret Harte was a consummate literary artist, who used facts with all an artist's freedom. Tennessee's Partner Soon after Bret Harte’s arrival in the East his friends urged him to give public lectures on the subject of life in California. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z What period of our development do Bret Harte's stories illustrate? History of American Literature Whether Bret Harte derived any inspiration from "Jim" Gillis may perhaps always remain in doubt; but that Mark Twain did, there cannot, I think, be any question. A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country Because you had been reading Bret Harte in prep. school and mistaken him for a modern realist. The First Man "The Luck of Roaring Camp," his first venture in this hitherto almost untouched field, proved that Bret Harte had come into his own. Tennessee's Partner So Joan represents what Bret Harte hated more than anything else in the world, namely, a narrow, censorious, hypocritical, cold-blooded Puritanism. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z The Overland Magazine, a San Francisco periodical, which Bret Harte was editing, published in 1868 his own short story, The Luck of Roaring Camp. History of American Literature On, page 50, however, we read: "In 1858 or thereabouts, Bret Harte was teaching school at Tuttletown, a few miles north of Sonora." A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country To Bret Harte he wrote: The book is out and is handsome. The Boys' Life of Mark Twain It was a pocket, perhaps, rather than a lead, but Bret Harte worked to the end of his career this material furnished by the camps, this method of the short story. The American Spirit in Literature : a chronicle of great interpreters There is something of great interest in the union of races so diverse, and Bret Harte has touched upon this aspect of California life in the character of that unique heroine, Maruja. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Again, men like Bret Harte and Mark Twain are not common in any literature. History of American Literature She said most positively that she never saw Bret Harte in her life, but had frequently seen "Dan de Quille" and Mark Twain. A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country Bret Harte was not yet famous, but his gifts were recognized on the Pacific slope, especially by the "Era" group of writers, the "Golden Era" being a literary monthly of considerable distinction. The Boys' Life of Mark Twain The charge is true; yet it is far from the whole truth concerning Bret Harte's artistry. The American Spirit in Literature : a chronicle of great interpreters Nor does Bret Harte’s account lack direct confirmation. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z As a matter of fact, he was writing the play, "Ah Sin," with Bret Harte, and getting it ready for production. Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 3 (1876-1885) California was still the land of gold and romance; the glamour with which Bret Harte surrounded both, that bids fair to be immortal, held me enthralled. A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country Mark Twain had contributed to the "Era" while still in Virginia City, and now, with Bret Harte, was ranked as a leader of the group. The Boys' Life of Mark Twain The West has been rediscovered many a time since that decade which witnessed the first literary bonanza of Mark Twain and Bret Harte. The American Spirit in Literature : a chronicle of great interpreters As for Bret Harte’s own religious views, it can scarcely be said that he had any. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z This naturally reminds me of Bret Harte—but let him pass. Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 3 (1876-1885) He said unquestionably Mark Twain got a good deal of material from him, and feels certain that Bret Harte must have met him at least on several occasions. A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country As it was, he found himself presently in the far and peaceful seclusion of that land which Bret Harte would one day make famous with his tales of "Roaring Camp" and "Sandy Bar." The Boys' Life of Mark Twain If the Bret Harte theory of the West was that each man is at bottom, a sentimentalist, Jack London's formula was that at bottom every man is a brute. The American Spirit in Literature : a chronicle of great interpreters Bret Harte left many warm friends in California, and they were much hurt, in some cases much angered, because they never had a word from him afterward. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Of course, the joke in this was that Gabriel Convoy was by Bret Harte, who by this time was thoroughly detested by Mark Twain. Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 3 (1876-1885) Personally, Mr. Gillis never met Bret Harte but he had seen Mark Twain on a number of Occasions. A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country He wrote rather an uncomplimentary note in Every Saturday concerning the poem and its authorship, characterizing it as a feeble imitation of Bret Harte's "Heathen Chinee." Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 2 (1867-1875) They tried their fortune at Angel's Camp, a place well known to readers of Bret Harte. Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 1 (1835-1866) Bret Harte was indolent and procrastinating about everything except the real business of his life, and into that all his energy was poured. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z In the next letter we get the beginning of what proved his first and last direct literary association, that is to say, collaboration, with Bret Harte. Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 3 (1876-1885) She asserted she never heard of Bret Harte being in Tuttletown and feels it to be impossible he ever taught school there. A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country Bret Harte has been here, and says his family would not be without that portrait for any consideration. Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 2 (1867-1875) Bret Harte and Clemens had by this time quit the Californian, expecting to contribute to Eastern periodicals. Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 1 (1835-1866) In San Francisco, both before and after his marriage, Bret Harte lived a quiet, studious life, going very little into society. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Bret Harte was one of his keenest admirers, and in two of his stories, thinly disguised under a more appealing name, Walker is the hero. Real Soldiers of Fortune Altogether, I was disappointed with Tuolumne, having expected to find a second Angel's, owing to its prominence in Bret Harte's stories. A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country Although Bret Harte's name is identified with Californian life, it was not till he was fifteen that the author of "Plain Language from Truthful James" saw the country of his adoption. Complete Poetical Works He was still working on the Call when it was written, and contributing literary articles to the Californian, of which Bret Harte, unknown to fame, was editor. Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 1 (1835-1866) Bret Harte was always inclined to underrate his own powers, and to be despondent as to his literary future. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z The sayings of his men that in his history of the war he records, show a distinct appreciation of the Bret Harte school of humor. Real Soldiers of Fortune On the streets of San Francisco, however, Bret Harte was always a notable figure, from the fact that the average man wore "slops," devoid alike of style or cut, and usually of shiny broadcloth. A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country Francis Bret Harte, to give the full name which he carried till he became famous, was born at Albany, New York, August 25, 1839. Complete Poetical Works Bret Harte and the rest of the little Pacific-slope group were also on the staff of these papers, and for a time, at least, the new school of American humor mustered in San Francisco. Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 1 (1835-1866) A year later, not, as Bret Harte himself states, in 1865, but in 1867, the first collection of his own poems was published. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z I suppose your brother has fallen into all those ways, and says “reckon” and “ornary” and “which the same,” just like one of Mr. Bret Harte’s characters. The Sleeping-Car, a farce To this generous and instantaneous recognition of genius may be attributed in no small measure the rapid distinction won by Bret Harte in the world of letters. A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country But the design did not quite satisfy, until Bret Harte, with a felicitous stroke, drew two parallel lines just before the feet of the halting brute. Complete Poetical Works He was recognized as one of the foremost among a little coterie of overland writers, two of whom, Mark Twain and Bret Harte, were soon to acquire a world-wide fame. Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 1 (1835-1866) Bret Harte became the first Editor, and it was he who selected the name. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z The young men of the Fortieth Parallel had Californian instincts; they were brothers of Bret Harte. The Education of Henry Adams Toiling up the grade in the dust, I met a good old-fashioned four-horse Concord stage, which from all appearances might have been in action ever since the days of Bret Harte. A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country Mr. Bret Harte is limited to the conte; M. Guy de Maupassant is probably at his best in it. Essays in Little If we should forget the "Luck of Roaring Camp," "Truthful James," and the "Heathen Chinee," we would also forget Bret Harte. Study of the King James Bible The poem entitled Plain Language from Truthful James, or the Heathen Chinee, as it is popularly known, and as Bret Harte himself afterward called it, first appeared in the “Overland” for September, 1870. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z In 1901 the world had altogether changed, and Wagner had become a part of it, as familiar as Shakespeare or Bret Harte. The Education of Henry Adams He was the first person I had thus far encountered who had known Bret Harte in the flesh. A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country He chose to regard Mr. Kipling as little but an imitator of Bret Harte, deriving his popularity mainly from the novel and exotic character of his subjects. Essays in Little Now, here is a magazine that once printed Poe and Lowell and Whitman and Bret Harte and Du Maurier and Lanier and—well, that gives you the idea. The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million Even that English critic who was perhaps his greatest admirer, makes the remark, literally true, but nevertheless misleading, that Bret Harte “did not create a perfectly noble, superior, commanding woman.” The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Nevertheless, so excellent a critic as Chesterton maintained that "There are more than nine hundred and ninety-nine excellent reasons which we could all have for admiring the work of Bret Harte." Selected Stories of Bret Harte No body of rough, uncouth, pistolled ruffians, such as Bret Harte depicts the miners, would have formed such a group of benevolent, far-reaching and comprehensive laws. A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country No doubt, if Mr. Kipling has a literary progenitor, it is Mr. Bret Harte. Essays in Little The writers fell in with contemporary tendencies and followed the lead of Bret Harte and Mark Twain, who had begun to write humorous local sketches and incidents. A Biography of Sidney Lanier Bret Harte’s heroines have a strong family resemblance to those of both Tourgueneff and Thomas Hardy. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Bret Harte never really knew the life of the mining camp. Selected Stories of Bret Harte The plots of nearly all Bret Harte's mining stories are thus closely associated with the bar-rooms and taverns of the mining towns of his day. A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country He reminded me a good deal of our old pirate and bandit friend, Trelawney, though the latter was an almost orientally dark-complexioned man, and Mr. Bret Harte was comparatively fair. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z None of his descendants on the Hebrew side knew of his marriage to Catharine Brett or of the existence of his son, the first Henry Hart, until some years after Bret Harte’s death. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z It is to be observed, however, that Bret Harte’s women do not need this defence, for his heroines, with the single exception of the faithful Miggles, are virtuous. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Yet, Twain added elsewhere, "Bret Harte got his California and his Californians by unconscious absorption, and put both of them into his tales alive." Selected Stories of Bret Harte Bret Harte was a man who in a primitive community might well escape notice. A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country The younger daughter, Margaret B., went to California with Bret Harte, and preceded him as a contributor of stories and sketches to the “Golden Era,” and other papers in San Francisco. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z How many thousand million times have children gone to school of a morning and found the master awaiting them, and yet who but Bret Harte has ever described the exact manner of their approach! The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Too much can hardly be made of the moral superiority of Bret Harte’s stories in this respect. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z The life of Bret Harte divides itself, without adventitious forcing, into four quite distinct parts. Selected Stories of Bret Harte You could probably count on the fingers of one hand persons now living in the Sierra foot-hills who have any recollection of ever having seen Bret Harte. A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country And now we come to the publication which first made Bret Harte known upon the Atlantic as well as upon the Pacific coast. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Aside from Bret Harte’s work, many volumes of prose and verse have been republished from the magazine, and most of them deserved the honor. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Mr. Bierce, however, recognizing its value, unselfishly advised Bret Harte to give it a place in the “Overland,” and this was finally done. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Let us, for the moment, leave Bret Harte thus happily situated, and glance at that Pioneer life which he was now engaged in portraying. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z In California's imaginary Hall of Fame, Bret Harte must be accorded a prominent, if not first place. A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country Most of Bret Harte’s tragic characters, such as Tennessee’s Partner, Madison Wayne, and the Bell-Ringer of Angel’s, were of this class. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Chance acquaintances made in England were sometimes surprised at Bret Harte’s appearance. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z The Pioneer women did indeed lack education and inherited refinement, as Bret Harte himself occasionally points out. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z The photographs of Bret Harte, taken at various periods in his life, reveal great changes, apart from those of age. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z In his opinion, the romancers—Bret Harte, Mark Twain, et al.—have done California more harm than good. A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country Bret Harte had something of a Hebrew look, and not unnaturally so, for he came of mixed English, Dutch and Hebrew stock. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Many years afterward, Bret Harte said with a laugh, “I sometimes wonder that I ever wrote a line of poetry again.” The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Bret Harte often speaks of the sudden appearance of beauty and refinement among the Western and Southwestern people. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z The Condensed Novels were continued in “The Californian,” and Bret Harte also contributed to it many poems, sketches, essays, editorial articles and book reviews. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z I was also influenced by its associations, as it figures prominently in Bret Harte's stories. A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country But the exceptional persons that Bret Harte described really existed; and, moreover, they existed in such proportion as to give character and tone to the whole community. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z The fact is that Bret Harte only skimmed the cream from the surface. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Cressy, like the other heroines of Bret Harte, flits across the scene a few times, and we see her no more. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z In the following July there is another mention of Bret Harte in one of Black’s letters. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Here comes Bret Harte, a man of unusual literary ability. A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country Bret Harte had almost a monomania for not answering letters; and his absence from Glasgow could not safely be inferred from his failure to acknowledge communications addressed to him there. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z She translated many of Bret Harte’s stories into French, and is the author of “Random Recollections of Court and Society,” “Cosmopolitan Recollections,” and “French Fiction of To-day.” The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Men were usually known, as Bret Harte relates, by the State or other place from which they came,—with some prefix or affix to denote a salient characteristic. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Bret Harte was always more easily influenced by women than by men. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Mr. Taylor had frequently met Mark Twain, but never to his knowledge, Bret Harte. A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country Barker’s Luck and Three Partners, taken together, illustrate Bret Harte’s limitations in this respect. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Even the mysteries of Franco-English seem to have been fathomed by Bret Harte, possibly by his contact with French people in San Francisco. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z When Bret Harte was only eleven years old he wrote a poem called Autumnal Musings which he sent surreptitiously to the “New York Sunday Atlas,” and the poem was published in the next issue. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Bret Harte cannot, of course, be ranked with these; nor, in saying that his lyrical poems are his best poems, do we necessarily assert for him any high degree of lyrical power. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z However clever the stories of the romancers—of whom Bret Harte preeminently stands first—after all, their characters were intrinsically but creatures of the imagination; the pioneers were the real thing! A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country Bret Harte, with all the refinement, love of elegance, reserve and self-restraint which characterized him, was a very natural man. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z One other characteristic of Bret Harte’s style, and indeed of any style which ranks with the best, is obvious, and that is subtlety. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Colonel Williams was the stepfather of Bret Harte, between whom and himself there existed the most affectionate relations.” The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Such a mare would naturally have an unusually straight hind leg; and Bret Harte noticed it. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Perhaps Bret Harte's miner, with his ready pistol, was as far from the mark as Rudyard Kipling's picture of Tommy Atkins as "an absentminded beggar"—an imputation the real "Tommy" hotly resented. A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country Bret Harte has the rare faculty of making even a tearful woman attractive. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z When Bret Harte nodded, he wrote like Dickens. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z It will be remembered that the hero of Bret Harte’s story, Two Americans, is Major Philip Ostrander. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z That Dickens surpassed him in breadth and scope, Bret Harte himself would have been the first to acknowledge. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z At the same time, such stories as "The Luck of Roaring Camp" and "Tennessee's Partner," not to quote others, prove Bret Harte conceded to the miner, courage, patience, gentleness, generosity and steadfastness in friendship. A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country Bret Harte, on the other hand, in his best poems and stories, exhibits all that restraint, all that absence of idiosyncrasy as distinguished from personality, which marks the true artist. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Bret Harte was one of that select band to whom the gods have vouchsafed a glimpse of perfection. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z It will thus be seen that Bret Harte, as an author, far from being an academic, was strictly a home product. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z In fact, the nearer Bret Harte’s stories approach the character of an episode the better and more dramatic they are. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Centuries after the names of all the rest are buried in oblivion, Bret Harte's stories of the Argonauts in the mining towns of California will remain the classics they have already become. A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country Bret Harte had something of a weakness for elaborate plots, but they were not in his line. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Bret Harte, on the other hand, worked from the outside. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Bret Harte’s sisters are women of distinguished appearance, and remarkable for force of character. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z In one case, however, Bret Harte did succeed in showing the growth and development of a character. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z There was a vigorous expulsion of gamblers in the early fifties and an incident occurred which quite possibly supplied the inspiration for Bret Harte's "Outcasts of Poker Flat." A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country Upon this character Bret Harte evidently bestowed great pains, and there are some notable passages in his delineation of it, especially the account of the duel between Clarence and Captain Pinckney. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z And these two qualities were knit into the closest texture of Bret Harte’s humor. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Starr King, Bret Harte’s other friend, was by far the most notable of the Protestant ministers in California. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z If Bret Harte had described that scene it would in some subtle way have combined a sense of the absurdity of the incident with some sense of the sublimity and pathos of the scene. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z If Bret Harte really "hurt" California, it was because, leaving the State for good in February, 1871, he carried with him the atmosphere of the early mining days and never got out of it. A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country Bret Harte had a real power of imitating great authors.... The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Bret Harte at his best was perhaps as nearly original as any author in the world. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Notwithstanding the success of his first story, Bret Harte was in no haste to rush into print with another. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z On the whole, it seems highly probable—though the critics have mostly decided otherwise—that Bret Harte derived more good than bad from his admiration for Dickens. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Dickens, moreover, despite his vulgarisms, despite even the cant into which he occasionally falls, had a depth of sincerity and conviction that can hardly be asserted for Bret Harte. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z One result of Bret Harte’s long residence in England was the circulation in this country of many false reports and statements about him which galled his sensitive nature. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Even Bret Harte’s tombstone bears the name of one who was a stranger to his blood and race. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z The reader of Bret Harte’s stories will remember how often the expression “Pike County” or “Piker” occurs; and this use is strictly historical. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z In spite of his amiability, kindness, generosity, there was in Bret Harte an element of cruelty. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z In this character, certainly in this incident, Bret Harte goes somewhat deeper than his wont. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Bret Harte’s short stay in Prussia, and later in Scotland, enabled him to grasp the peculiarities of nature and speech belonging to the natives. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z The moral complement of this rare capacity for reading human nature was the sympathy, the tenderness of feeling which Bret Harte possessed. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Bret Harte’s heroines are almost all of the robust type. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z There is often in Bret Harte a subtle blending of satire and humor, notably in that masterpiece of satirical humor, the Heathen Chinee. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z This was typical California humor, and Bret Harte, in his stories and poems, more often perhaps in the latter, gave frequent expression to it; but it was not typical Bret Harte humor. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z American humor is purely exaggerative; Bret Harte’s humor was sympathetic and analytical. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z San Francisco in 1870 was dominated by that cold, hard, self-satisfied, commercial spirit which Bret Harte especially hated, and which furnished one reason, perhaps the main reason, for his departure from the State. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z During a temporary absence of the editor Bret Harte was entrusted with the conduct of the paper, and about that time a cowardly massacre of Indians was perpetrated by some Americans in the vicinity. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Bret Harte in his poems and stories availed himself of this out-door life to the fullest extent. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Beside these, Bret Harte had a few errors all his own. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Bret Harte went down to us at Brighton, and if we didn’t amuse him he certainly amused us. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z This confirms Bret Harte’s other statement, made elsewhere, that his characters, instead of being imagined, were copied from life. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z In the year following Mr. King’s death Bret Harte’s second son was born, and received the name of Francis King. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z “You know fust-rate she’s dead” is another quaint expression used by Bret Harte, but not invented by him, for this use of “fust-rate” in the sense of very well was not uncommon in the West. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Bret Harte was keenly alive to this aspect of New England character; and he has depicted it with almost savage intensity in The Argonauts of North Liberty. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z With these few exceptions, however, Bret Harte was a writer of sentiment, and that is the secret of his power. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z This short list will very nearly exhaust Bret Harte’s errors in the use of English; but it must be admitted, also, that he occasionally lapses into a Dickens-like grandiloquence and cant of superior virtue. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z This was the famous weekly edited and published by the late Charles Henry Webb, and written mainly by Bret Harte, Mark Twain, Webb himself, Prentice Mulford, and Mr. Stoddard. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z But here we touch upon Bret Harte’s weakness as a portrayer of human nature. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z The deficiency in Bret Harte was perhaps this, that he lacked a profound knowledge of human nature. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Other writers can do the one thing but not the other; and in this respect Hawthorne and Bret Harte stand at opposite extremes. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z The Heathen Chinee, little as Bret Harte himself thought of it, is certainly one of these. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z In the sketch entitled My First Book, printed in volume ten of his works, Bret Harte has given some amusing reminiscences concerning the volume of California poems edited by him, and published in 1866. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Bret Harte, one would think, must have been a romantic and imaginative lover, and yet in his poetry there is little, if anything, to indicate that he was ever deeply in love. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Bret Harte was cast in a different mould. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Some expressions which might be regarded as original with Bret Harte were really Pioneer terms of Western or Southern use. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z “Blue mange” for blanc mange is probably original with Bret Harte. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Many of these people were deeply religious in a Gothic manner, and Bret Harte has touched lightly upon this aspect of their natures, especially in the case of Mr. Joshua Rylands. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Bret Harte’s writings offer a wide field for the study of what might be called the psychological aspect of dialect, especially so far as it relates to pronunciation. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z This is the ideal which Bret Harte fulfilled. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Who but Bret Harte has really described the light which love kindles upon the face of a woman? The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z The truth is that Bret Harte’s national poems, with which this tribute to Starr King may properly be classed, have a depth of personal feeling not often found elsewhere in his poetry. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z |
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