All of the texts in this edition, with four exceptions, are reproduced from the Standard Library Edition of Harte’s
Works (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, c. 1897-1906). Two of the exceptions are the poems “That Ebrew Jew” and “Free Silver at Angel’s,” here reprinted from Harte’s
Stories and Poems and Other Uncollected Writings, ed. Charles Meeker Kozlay (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1914). Harte’s “The Rise of the ‘Short Story’ ” is here reprinted for the first time since its original publication in
Cornhill Magazine, ns 7 ( July 1899), 1-8. In addition, “The Argonauts of ’49” was first published as the “General Introduction” to the second volume of
The Works of Bret Harte (London: Chatto & Windus, 1882) and reprinted in the Standard Library Edition as the “Introduction” to volume 2, pp. ix-xxxv. As Harte remarked in a footnote to that edition, “This Introduction, in its original use, was a lecture to English and American audiences, and is now, with some trifling alterations, printed for the first time.”
