... 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 undoubtedly these two men rather than any others among the Western humorists, in the...