Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1886 — Bret Harte’s Way. [ARTICLE]

Bret Harte’s Way.

It will be observed by those who are solicitous about the present tendencies of American fiction, as manifested in the work of a school which is just now somewhat prolific, that here is a distinguished American novelist who has imagination, and is not afraid to use it; who allows his people to develop their own characters and words; who doesn’t travel through miles of explanation, criticism, and analysis in order to achieve inches of narrative movement; who doesn’t mount the platform, like the man with a long stick at the panorama. and bore the audience to death; who had rather use one word than forty, if he has the right word handy; and who had rather stop short than become tedious. What in the name of common sense is the use in subjecting the people of fiction, primarily meant for our entertainment. to a process of psychological analysis more rigid and minute than we dream of applying to real people whom we know and like or hate our whole lives long?— New York Sun. Diphtheria is frequently the result of a .neglected sore throat, which can be cured by a single bottle of Red Star Cough Cure. Price, twenty-five cents a bottle.