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Reported Reporter Morley: "The President is a good man. He pronounces economics correctly, with a long e. Beware of statesmen who call it eckonomics. . . .* He does not care for wildcat literature. He sank his shafts deep into the solid ore of Balzac, Brontė, Cooper, Dickens, Dumas, George Eliot, Bret Harte, Hawthorne, Howells, Kipling, Meredith, Scott, Stevenson, Thackeray, Mark Twain. . . . There is nothing austerely highbrow in his choice: he enjoyed the same thrillers you and I were reared on. He knows his James Bryce, John Fiske, Parkman, Prescott, James Ford Rhodes, Trevelyan, Truslow Adams. . . . Among late American novelists his favorites seem...
...Cleveland and the Democrats came in (1885) and Harte lost his job, he decided to stay in England. He tried every kind of writing (even advertisements), attempted many plays, but never repeated his early successes. With Mark Twain, Harte collaborated on a comedy, Ah Sin; it was a failure. Bret Harte was still toiling away at his hack-writing when Death came for him in Camberley...
...BRET HARTE?GEORGE R. STEWART JR. ?Houghton Mifflin...
...Francis Bret Harte (1836-1902)** arrived on the U. S. scene about the same time as Mark Twain, for a time rivaled him as foremost Western writer. Harte was born in Albany, N. Y., never liked his adopted State of California very much, and spent the last 24 years of his life abroad. A writer of serious ambitions, he rode to fame on the gales of laughter caused by a funny poem of which he was ashamed...
...Argonaut, founded in 1877 by Frank Pixley and Fred Somers, enjoyed a bombastic heyday under their regime. Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Ambrose Bierce were early contributors. As editor from 1907 to 1924 the gifted Alfred Holman maintained a high standard of literary excellence. Though parts of the paper seem dull nowadays, San Franciscans point with pride to Editor Morphy's irascible editorials. He is well qualified to tell about the Big Wind in Ireland for he was born and educated there. Onetime gravedigger and longshoreman, he joined the Argonaut in 1925 with a background of 20 years vagabond-reporting...