The single finest work of American foreign correspondence in 1897 was Richard Harding Davis’ dispatch about the execution of a young Cuban captured in the rebellion against Spanish rule. The article appeard in the New York Journal on 2 February 1897. The lean, descriptive power of Davis’ 2,500-word account anticipated the style of Ernest Hemingway, critics say. Davis liked it so much that he included slightly polished versions of the dispatch in separate anthologies of his writing.