the midst
of a beautiful forest which covers an area of nearly 66 miles. At
Fontainebleau is a famous chateau of the French kings. It is noted for
the beauty of its architecture and contains many wonderful paintings.

2. Pierrefonds. A small village in northern France where a very old and
famous chateau is located.

3. Vincennes. A town about five miles from Paris, noted for its chateau
which is now used as a great fortress.

4. Chantilly. A town in northern France noted for its lace-making, its
horse races, and two beautiful chateaux built by the Prince of Conde,
one of the French nobility. In the eighteenth century the most
brilliant writers and artists of France used to gather at Chantilly.

133, 1. Tophet. A valley, sometimes called Gehenna, near Jerusalem,
where human sacrifices were burned to the heathen god Moloch.

137, 1. Andy. Andrew Carnegie, a Scotch-American steel manufacturer and
philanthropist, who established libraries in many cities of the United
States.

138, 1. La Salle. A French explorer of the seventeenth century. He
discovered the Ohio River and was the first to explore the greater part
of the Mississippi River.

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FRANCIS BRET HARTE (Page 141)

Bret Harte, as he is familiarly known, was born in Albany, New York, in
1836. At fifteen he wandered to California, the state which has so
vividly colored his best known short stories. The first three years he
was there, for a living, he taught school, and, as a pastime, like
every one else in California at that time, he dug for gold.

He then entered the office of the _Golden Era_ as a compositor, but
soon began to write articles for the paper. These attracted favorable
notice and he was made assistant editor-in-chief.

His ready imagination was stirred by the teeming, adventuresome life
about him and he began to put his ideas into short stories with the
mellow background of the golden state of California. Poe and Hawthorne
had made the short story a distinct type. Now Bret Harte, less artistic
and careful in his style, followed their lead with short stories to
which he added the new idea of coloring brilliantly the setting of the
story with the atmosphere of a certain locality.

From 1868-1870 he edited the _Overland Monthly_ in which appeared his
best known short stories, "The Luck of Roaring Camp," "The Outcasts of
Poker Flat," and "Tennessee's Partner," each of which presented
stirring scenes