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 1912: 3 vols.) is an essential source for information regarding not only Mark Twain but also the entire period, particularly the relations between Mark Twain and Howells. There is also A Short Life of Mark Twain (Harper: 1920) by Paine. Of critical studies the most important are Howells's My Mark Twain (Harper: 1910) and Van Wyck Brooks's The Ordeal of Mark Twain (Dutton: 1920), the last a brilliant and illuminating piece of criticism. The Cambridge History brings the bibliography of Mark Twain to 1920, Vol. IV, pp. 635-39.

Author:Henry James (1843-1916) collected most of his novels and tales for the New York Edition (Scribner: 1907-09: 24 vols.; 2 more vols, added 1917), to which he contributed prefaces containing by far the most important commentary yet made upon his work. His Letters (Scribner: 1920: 2 vols.) are full of hints regarding his aims and methods. The Cambridge History brings the James bibliography down to 1920, Vol. IV, pp. 671-75. Of critical studies the following are notable: The Method of Henry James (Yale University Press: 1918) by Joseph Warren Beach; Henry James (Holt: 1916) by Rebecca West.

this chapter Pattee's American Literature since 1870 and Chapters vi (Vol. II) and xi (Vol. III) of the Cambridge History, with the bibliographies, are essential. The works of Bret Harte are published in twenty volumes by Houghton Mifflin, a firm which also issues The Life of Bret Harte (1911) by H. C. Merwin. Mrs. Jackson's Ramona is published by