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 the Cambridge History, Chapter xi, the bibliography to which, Vol. IV, pp. 656-71, furnishes additional titles and critical guidance.

author:John William De Forest in The Nation for January 9, 1868, and T. S. Perry in The North American Review for October 1872 interestingly discuss "The Great American Novel." For the local color writers see Chapter xi in Volume III of the Cambridge History, and also Chapter vi, The Short Story, in Volume II. For the period as a whole Pattee's History of American Literature since 1870 is indispensable. DeForest's novels have not been reprinted. There are accounts of Edward Eggleston in George Cary Eggleston's The First of the Hoosiers (Philadelphia: 1903) and in Meredith Nicholson's The Hoosiers (Macmillan: 1900). The writings of William Dean Howells are published by various houses, chiefly Houghton Mifflin and Harper. The most extensive bibliography is that in the Cambridge History, Vol. IV, pp. 663-66. There is a critical study, William Dean Howells (Huebsch: 1917), by Alexander Harvey. No authentic biography of Howells has yet been published, but much information concerning him may be found in Mark Twain's Letters (Harper: 1917: 2 vols.) and in The Letters of Henry James (Scribner: 1920: 2 vols.), as well as in Howells's own autobiographical writings, particularly Years of My Youth, My Literary Passions, Literary Friends and Acquaintance.

books of Mark Twain are published by Harper. Albert Bigelow Paine's Mark Twain: A Biography (Harper: