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California. Poe and Hawthorne had made the short story a distinct type. Now Bret Harte,less artistic and careful in his style, followed their lead with short stories to which headded the new idea of coloring brilliantly the setting of the story with the atmosphere of acertain locality.From 1868-1870 he edited the Overland Monthly in which appeared his best known shortstories, "The Luck of Roaring Camp," "The Outcasts of Poker Flat," and "Tennessee'sPartner," each of which presented stirring scenes of the early gold-seeking days ofCalifornia. Their charm lies in his emphasis on the manners and actions of a picturesquecommunity.The material of his stories is romantic, melodramatic, often almost shocking. He handledit, however, with humor, irony, or pathos. He was a realist who pictured, marvelously, thelife about him as he saw it.In 1870 Mr. Harte was made professor of recent literature in the University of California.After 1878 he held consular appointments; in Germany 1878-1880, in Scotland1880-1885. After 1885 he lived in England until his death in 1902.Chu Chu(Return)