COPYRIGHT 1871, 1872, 1899 AND 1900 BY BRET HARTE COPYRIGHT 1871 BY J. R. OSGOOD AND Co. COPYRIGHT 1878 BY HOUGHTON, OSGOOD AND CO. COPYRIGHT 1896 AND 1906 BY HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND CO. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 143463 PUBLISHERS' NOTE In 1882, it was felt to be desirable that Mr. Harte's scattered work should be brought together in convenient form, and the result was a compact edition of five volumes. After that date, as before, he continued to produce poems, tales, sketches, and romances in steady succession, and in 1897 his publishers undertook a uniform and orderly presentation of the results of more than thirty years of his literary activity. The fourteen volumes that embodied those results were enriched by Introductions and a Glossary prepared by Mr. Harte himself. The present Riverside Edition is based on the collection made in 1897, but is enlarged by the inclusion of later work. Boston, 4 Park Street, Autumn, 1902. |