...s given most readily to what may be called the Buffalo Bill spirit, and belonged to the tomahawk and blanket period. When a Swedish visitor to this country, some twenty years ago, was asked whether Frederika Bremer 's novels, once received here with such enthusiasm, were still read in Sweden, he said No; and to the question as to what had taken their place he replied, Bret Harte and Mark Twain. It is undoubt...