[1] This I have attempted in _Representative American Short Stories_
(Allyn & Bacon: Boston, 1922).
[2] Will D. Howe, in _The Cambridge History of American Literature_,
Vol. II, pp. 158–159 (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1918).
[3] _A History of American Literature Since 1870_, p. 317 (The
Century Co.: 1915).
[4] _A History of American Literature Since 1870_, pp 79–81.
[5] “The Works of Bret Harte,” twenty volumes. The Houghton Mifflin
Company, Boston.
[6] _The Cambridge History of American Literature_, Vol. II, p. 386.
[7] See this Introduction.
[8] _The Cambridge History of American Literature_, Vol. II, p. 385.
[9] Fred Lewis Pattee, in The Cambridge History of American
Literature, Vol. II, p. 394.