Appropriate poems by Bret Harte:—­

John Burns of Gettysburg
In the Tunnel
The Lost Galleon
Grizzly
Battle Bunny
The Wind in the Chimney
Reveille
Plain Language from Truthful James (The Heathen Chinee)

Highways and Byways in the Rocky Mountains Clifton Johnson
Trails of the Pathfinders G.B.  Grinnell
Stories of California E.M.  Sexton
Glimpses of California Helen Hunt Jackson
California:  Its History and Romance J.S.  McGroarty
Heroes of California G.W.  James
Recollections of an Old Pioneer P.H.  Bennett
The Mountains of California John Muir
Romantic California E.C.  Peixotto
Silverado Squatters R.L.  Stevenson
Jimville:  A Bret Harte Town
  (in Atlantic Monthly, November, 1902) Mary Austin
The Prospector (poem) Robert W. Service
The Rover " " "
The Life of Bret Harte H.C.  Merwin
Bret Harte Henry W. Boynton
Bret Harte T.E.  Pemberton
American Writers of To-day, pp. 212-229 H.C.  Vedder
Bookman, 15:312 (see also map on page 313).

For stories of famous friendships, look up:—­

Damon and Pythias (any good encyclopedia). 
Patroclus and Achilles (the Iliad). 
David and Jonathan (the Bible:  1st Samuel 18:1-4; 19:1-7; chapter 20,
  entire; 23:16-18; chapter 31, entire; 2d Samuel, chapter 1, entire). 
The Substitute (Le Remplacant) Francois Coppee
  (In Modern Short-stories edited by M. Ashmun.)

THE COURSE OF AMERICAN HISTORY

WOODROW WILSON

(In Mere Literature)

Our national history has been written for the most part by New England men.  All honor to them!  Their scholarship and their characters alike have given them an honorable enrollment amongst the great names of our literary history; and no just man would say aught to detract, were it never so little, from their well-earned fame.  They have written our history, nevertheless, from but a single point of view.  From where they sit, the whole of the great development looks like an Expansion of New England.  Other elements but play along the sides of the great process by which the Puritan has worked out the development of nation and polity.  It is he who has gone out and possessed the land:  the man of destiny, the type and impersonation of a chosen people.  To the Southern writer, too, the story looks much the same, if it be but followed to its culmination,—­to