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Most of the book is given over to the old man's memories. He snarls with moral indignation when he thinks of Bret Harte's treatment of his wife, Mrs. Aldrich's treatment of her guests. He scolds about the recurrent miseries of official banquets. "It is an hour and a half of nerve-wrecking clamor, of intolerable clattering and clashing of knives and forks and plates, of shrieking and shouting commonplaces at one's elbow-mates . . . and when there is a band-and there usually is-the pandemonium is complete, and there is nothing...
...Paul Smith had a private poll taken and convinced himself he had a chance. Three hundred and fifty-six people who work for the Chronicle signed another petition begging him to stay on. So the 30-year-old, pint-size, freckle-faced boss of Mark Twain's and Bret Harte's paper decided to stick to his job. One of the funny things about Pinky Smith is that he is dazzled by being a newspaperman...
This week that teeming literature is celebrated in a 425-page volume called San Francisco's Literary Frontier. An absorbing book, it contains a big cast, centring on Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Ambrose Bierce, Joaquin Miller. But at least a dozen of its 45 secondary and minor characters are as interesting if not as important as these. They shuttle in & out of a narrative brightened by anecdote, distinguished by excellent writing, weighted by a shrewd understanding of frontier social forces. The six-year work of a 37-year-old professor of English at San Diego State College, San Francisco...
...frontier was far more tolerant of Bret Harte, according to Author Walker's records, than Harte ever admitted. A slender, curly-haired, sickly New York boy, who had read Shakespeare at six, Bret (whose friends sometimes called him Fanny) was a self-conscious literary man, who prospected in patent-leather shoes, drove a stagecoach only long enough to get his literary stake. He wrote his frontier successes when he had long been sitting comfortably behind a desk. Far from being unappreciated, when the Atlantic Monthly offered him $10,000 a year, the frontier went the limit to hold...
...Arthur E. Morgan, Herbert Hoover. But never did it forget that it was essentially the literary trustee of its early Boston contributors like Oliver Wendell Holmes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier. Other Atlantic contributors who have made literary history include: Robert Browning, Harriet Beecher Stowe. Bret Harte, Samuel L. Clemens, Henry James Jr., Thomas Hardy, Lafcadio Hearn, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, John Galsworthy, Robert Frost...