...dly he had and freshness of material, but, lacking poise and moral background and beauty of style, he must be passed as an ephemeral sensation. From the multitude of the later short story writers Richard Harding Davis (1864-1916), whose literary life, from the appearance of in 1891 to his death, coincided almost exactly with the modem period in American literature, may be chosen as the typical figure. Reared i...