LITERARY NOTES. 
The Commercial, Louisville, Ky., says of Bret Harte’s 
new story : “ If the promise of the opening chapters 
is fulfilled, it will be a worthy achievement of the 
highest powers indicated in those shorter stories which 
gave the author his first fame.” 
The Courier, Buffalo, N. Y., says: ‘^Scribner’s 
Monthly has secured a rare prize for the volume 
which its November number commences, in the new 
novel by Bret Harte.” 
The Advertiser, Boston, Mass., says of “ Gabriel 
Conroy:” “These opening chapters are as graphic, 
picturesque and strange as anything Bret Harte has 
written, and it is plain that we are to have a novel dis- 
tinctly original in incidents and characters, a story of 
life and circumstances almost unknown and unimag- 
ined by magazine readers. The hard brutal characters 
of some of the party are revealed by masterly touches, 
and contrast strongly with the refinement and tender- 
ness of others.” 
The New York Commercial Advertiser says : “ The 
November Scribner’s contains the opening chapters 
of Bret Harte’s new serial story, ‘Gabriel Conroy,’ a 
story that promises to exceed in picturesque interest 
any that this gifted American author has yet produced.” 
The New Hampshire Sentinel, Keene, N. H., says : 
“ Bret Harte’s new novel, ‘ Gabriel Conroy,’ begins 
with magnificent strength, a strength peculiarly Mr. 
Harte’s own, and as full and intense as any he has yet 
shown.” 
The Evening News, Detroit, Mich., says: “In 
Scribner for November is begun a story by Bret 
Harte, which, if the initiatory chapters are an earnest 
of what is to follow, will be one of the best literary 
ventures in hand. The story opens with an intensely 
dramatic situation, and the best qualities of the author’s 
genius observable in his shorter stories, are brought 
out with unusual strength and freedom.” 
The Cincinnati Saturday Night says : “No one can 
read the opening chapters of Bret Harte’s new novel 
in Scribner’s Monthly, which describes the starving 
camp, without feeling hungry.” 
The Traveller, Boston, Mass., says: “If the story 
fulfills its promise, it will surpass all Mr. Harte’s 
previous work.” 
The Sunday Times, New York, says of “ Gabriel 
Conroy:” , “ Mr. Harte writes of the West, where he 
is at home in scene-painting and in sketching characters 
rough-hewn but striking; and the story promises a 
popularity worthy of an American novel written by an 
author who has earned fame by a success suddenly 
acquired, but fairly supported by every production he 
gives to the reading world.” 
The Boston Commonwealth says of “ Gabriel Con- 
roy:” “The story begins with a strength peculiarly 
Mr. Harte’s own, and as full and intense as any he has 
yet shown.” 
The Palladiutn, New Haven, Conn., says of “ Gabriel 
Conroy :” “ It is a terrible picture — that of the starv- 
ing camp — and the writer has drawn it with a master 
hand.” 
In an article under the title, “American Fiction,” the 
Hartford Courant thus speaks of Bret Harte’s novel, 
“Gabriel Conroy,” just begun in Scribner’s 
Monthly: “ It bids fair to be powerfully drawn, and 
full of those true touches of humanity which character- 
ize its author. As the founder of a school of his own, 
Bret Harte has made a deep impression upon the 
country, and his new California novel will be sure to 
attract wide attention.” 
The Philadelphia Inquirer says: “Scribner’s 
Monthly, always a welcome visitor, is more than 
commonly so in the November number. The leading 
feature is the opening chapters of ‘ Gabriel Conroy,’ a 
serial by Bret Harte, which already gives evidence of 
abundant pathos, over which Mr. Harte has shown a 
rare mastery.” 
The Pittsburgh Chronicle says of the opening chap- 
ters : “ It is a wonderful picture, and the story with 
such a fascinating opening cannot fail of becoming one 
of the great novels of the year.” 
The Methodist Recorder says : “ The opening chap- 
ters are vivid photographs of the Sierras in storm, 
weird, grand, even sublime. Having viewed that wild 
region in summer and in winter, we are somewhat 
prepared to utter an opinion on the subject; and we 
say, without hesitation, that nowhere have we read or- 
seen, in painting or poem, anything to be compared 
with Bret Harte’s portraiture of the Sierra Nevada 
mountains in winter. The first touch is masterly. 
The full revelation of the plot, character and soul of 
the story, cannot fail to be an event in American 
literature.” 
The Springfield (Mass.) Republican says : “ The pic- 
ture is powerfully done. The illimitable snow is spread 
before you ; you stop at the blazed pine and read the 
cry for help from the canon ; then a haggard, starving 
man hurries into the landscape, the more to impress the 
image of its desolation. The artistic preparation for 
the horrors of that brutalized camp in the canon is 
perfect.” 
Commercial Bulletin, Boston, Mass., says : “ If we 
may judge from this opening, the reading public are to 
be treated to a story of Western pioneer life that will 
stand alone and without peer.” 
The N. Y. Times says : “ The first chapters are very 
powerful, and will excite interest in the public mind. 
