David Harum [microform] : a story of American life

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by  Westcott, Edward Noyes, 1847-1898

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DAVID HARUM
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Stor)? or Hmcrican Xifc
BY
EDWARD NOYES WESTCOTT
TORONTO
WILLIAM BRIGGS
1899
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EmtbridMoordingtoAct of the Parliament of Canada,in the year one
thousandeighthundred and ninety-nine,byWilliam BRieos, at the
DepartmentofAgriculture.
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INTRODUCTION.
The's as much human nature in some lolKS as th* it
In others, if not more. David Harum.
One of the most conspicuous characteristics
of our contemporary native fiction is an increas-
ing tendency to subordinate plot or story to the
bold and realistic portrayal of some of the types
cf American life and manners. And the reason
for this is not far to seek. The extraordinary
mixing of races which has been going on here
for more than a century has produced an enor-
mously diversified human result; and the prod-
ucts of this " hybridization " have been still fur-
ther differentiated by an environment that ranges
from the Everglades of Florida to the glaciers of
Alaska. The existence of these conditions, and
the great literary opportunities which they con-
tain, American writers long ago perceived; and,
with a generally true appreciation of artistic val-
ues, they have created from them a gallery oi
brilliant genre pictures which to-day stand for the
highest we have yet attained in the art of fiction«
DAVID HARUM.
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Thus it is that we have (to mention but a
few) studies of Louisiana and her people by Mr.
Cable of Virginia and Georgia by Thomas Nel-
;
son Page and Joel Chandler Harris; of New
England by Miss Jewett and Miss Wilkins; of
the Middle West by Miss French (Octave Tha-
net); of the great Northwest by Hamlin Gar-
land; of Canada and the land of the habitans by
Gilbert Parker; and finally, though really first in
point of time, the Forty-niners and their succes-
sors by Bret Harte. This list might be indefi-
nitely extended, for it is growing daily, but it is
long enough as it stands to sho\/ that every sec-
tion of our country has, or soon will have, its
own painter and historian, whose works will live
and become a permanent part of our literature in
just the degree that they are artistically true.
Some of these writers have already produced
many books, while others have gained general
recognition an^ even fame by the vividness and
power of a sing!e study, like Mr Howe with The
Story of a Country Town. But each one, it will
be noticed, has chosen for his field of work that
part of our country wherein he passed the early
and formative years of his life; a natural selec-
tion that is, perhaps, an unconscious affirmation
of David Harum's aphorism: " Ev'ry. boss c'n
do a thing better 'n' spryer if he's ben broke to
it as a colt."
In the case of the present volume the condi-
INTRODUCTION. vu«•
tions are identical with those just mentioned.
Most of the scenes are laid in central New York,
where the author, Edward Noyes Westcott, was
born, September 24, 1847, and where he died of
consumotion, March 31, 1898. Nearly all his
life was passed in his native city of Syracuse, and
although banking and not authorship was the
occupation of his active years, yet his sensitive
and impressionable temperament had become so
saturated with the local atmosphere, and his re-
tentive memory so charged with facts, that when
at length he took up the pen he was able to create
in David Harum a character so original, so true,
and so strong, yet withal so delightfully quaint
and humorous, that we are at once compelled to
admit that here is a new and permanent addition
to the long list of American literary portraits.
The book is a novel, and throughout it runs
a love story which is characterized by sympa-
thetic treatment and a constantly increasing in-
terest; but the title role is taken by the old coun-
try banker, David Harum: dry, quaint, some-
what illiterate, no doubt, but possessing an amaz-
ing amount of knowledge not found in printed
books, and holding fast to the cheerful belief
that there is nothing wholly bad or useless in
this world. Or, in his own words " A reason-
: —
able amount of fleas is good for a dog they
keep him fm broodin' on bein* a dog." This
horse-trading country banker and reputed Shy-