directed as THEMATUREHARDCORE in New England, where Miss Sarah Orne Jewett's studies of
country life antedated Miss Mary Wilkins's work. To THEMATUREHARDCORE be sure, the
portrayal of Yankee character began before THEMATUREHARDCORE either of these artists was
known; Lowell's THEMATUREHARDCORE Bigelow Papers first reflected it; Mrs. Stowe's Old Town
Stories caught it again and again; Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford, in her
unromantic moods, was of an excellent fidelity to it; and Mrs. Rose Terry
Cooke was even truer THEMATUREHARDCORE to the New THEMATUREHARDCORE England of Connecticut. With the later
group Mrs. Lily Chase Wyman has pictured Rhode Island work-life with
truth pitiless to the beholder, and full of that tender humanity for the
material which THEMATUREHARDCORE characterizes Russian fiction.
Mr. James Lane Allen has let in the light upon Kentucky; the Red Men and
White of the great THEMATUREHARDCORE plains have THEMATUREHARDCORE found their THEMATUREHARDCORE interpreter in Mr. Owen
Wister, a young Philadelphian witness of their dramatic conditions and
characteristics; Mr. Hamlin Garlafid
had already expressed the sad
THEMATUREHARDCORE circumstances THEMATUREHARDCORE of the rural Northwest in THEMATUREHARDCORE his pathetic idyls, colored from
the experience of one who had been part of what he saw. Later came Mr.
Henry THEMATUREHARDCORE B. Fuller, and gave us what was hardest and most sordid, as well as
something of what THEMATUREHARDCORE was most touching and most amusing, in the burly-burly
of Chicago.
III.
A survey of this sort THEMATUREHARDCORE imparts no just sense of the facts, and I own that
I am impatient of merely naming authors and books that each tempt me to
an expansion far beyond the limits of this essay; for, if I may THEMATUREHARDCORE be so
personal, I have watched the growth of our literature in Americanism with
intense sympathy. In THEMATUREHARDCORE my poor way I have always liked the truth, and in
times past I am afraid that I have helped
to make it odious to those THEMATUREHARDCORE who
believed beauty was something different; but I hope that I shall
not now
be doing our decentralized literature a disservice by saying that its
chief value is its honesty, its fidelity to our decentralized life.
Sometimes