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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ious child. At theage of six be was readingShakespeare and Froissart,and Dickens was one of hisearly favorites. The crea-tive instincts of the artistappeared early, too; whenlittle more that a tot heparodied the bald languageof a childs primer. Thispropensity to parody he never entirely threw off. Mr. Harte was fortunate, as an artist, in hismother, a woman combining keen critical abilitywith strong common sense ; she repressed theyouthful Qagerness to rush into print all the morebecause she realized the boys talent. Mr. Hartesfamily think his finished art owes much to her inthis respect. His first published piece was a poementitled Autumnal Musings, in the New YorkSunday Atlas, a clandestine performance. The great event in Bret Hartes life came in1853, when he went to California, close on the• heels of the Argonauts. A young, impressiona-ble man, with the true artists sensitiveness, hissoul was crowded with the dramatic impressionsof the riotous, free life of the mining town, where
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BKET HAFJTE. human nature found unrestrained play for itspassions, crimes, and virtues. Thrown into thissocial chaos, in turn as a gold miner, a school-teacher, an express messenger, a drug clerk, andcompositor in a printing oSice, young Harte ac-quired such a store of impressions that half a cen-tury of prolific fiction-making never tempted himto look elsewhere for a theme. His native taste for printers ink gave him anabsorbing interest in the journalistic enterprisesof the New Land. In Eureka he edited a paperin the absence of the proprietor, but r broughtdown the wrath of the community, because hecondemned in an editorial the cowardly massacreof some Indians. This incident forced him toretreat to San Francisco, in 1857; where he joined THO AMERICAN NO^F.LISTS. 099 the Golden Era, wrote for the Bulletin, anil editedthe CdUfornian. In liSG8, tlie Ovcrhind MnnlJili/ was foundedby A. Roman, and Bret Ilarte was made editor.In the second number, of August, 1868, ap-peared The Luck of Koa

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