body of his poetical work,
growing by minute accretions during thirty odd years.

In 1878 he was appointed United States Consul at Crefeld, Germany, and
after that date he resided, with little interruption, on the Continent
or in England. He was transferred to Glasgow in March, 1880, and
remained there until July, 1885. During the rest of his life he made
his home in London. His foreign residence is disclosed in a number of
prose sketches and tales and in one or two poems; but life abroad never
dimmed the vividness of the impressions made on him by the experience of
his early manhood when he partook of the elixir vitae of California, and
the stories which from year to year flowed from an apparently
inexhaustible fountain glittered with the gold washed down from the
mountain slopes of that country which through his imagination he had
made so peculiarly his own.

Mr. Harte died suddenly at Camberley, England, May 6, 1902.

CONTENTS

I. NATIONAL.

JOHN BURNS OF GETTYSBURG

"HOW ARE YOU, SANITARY?"

BATTLE BUNNY

THE REVEILLE

OUR PRIVILEGE

RELIEVING GUARD

THE GODDESS

ON A PEN OF THOMAS STARR KING

A SECOND REVIEW OF THE GRAND ARMY

THE COPPERHEAD

A SANITARY MESSAGE

THE OLD MAJOR EXPLAINS

CALIFORNIA'S GREETING TO SEWARD

THE AGED STRANGER

THE IDYL OP BATTLE HOLLOW

CALDWELL OF SPRINGFIELD

POEM, DELIVERED ON THE FOURTEENTH ANNIVERSARY OF CALIFORNIA'S
ADMISSION INTO THE UNION

MISS BLANCHE SAYS

AN ARCTIC VISION

ST. THOMAS

OFF SCARBOROUGH

CADET GREY

II. SPANISH IDYLS AND LEGENDS.

THE MIRACLE OF PADRE JUNIPERO

THE WONDERFUL SPRING OF SAN JOAQUIN

THE ANGELUS

CONCEPCION DE ARGUELLO

"FOR THE KING"

RAMON

DON DIEGO OF THE SOUTH

AT THE HACIENDA

FRIAR PEDRO'S RIDE

IN THE MISSION GARDEN

THE LOST GALLEON

III. IN DIALECT.

"JIM"

CHIQUITA

DOW'S FLAT

IN THE TUNNEL

"CICELY"

PENELOPE

PLAIN LANGUAGE FROM TRUTHFUL JAMES

THE SOCIETY UPON THE STANISLAUS

LUKE

"THE BABES IN THE WOODS"

THE LATEST CHINESE OUTRAGE

TRUTHFUL JAMES TO THE EDITOR

AN IDYL OF THE ROAD

THOMPSON OF ANGELS

THE HAWK'S NEST

HER LETTER

HIS ANSWER TO "HER LETTER"