...Clarence Gohdes Book Reviews 437 The Literary Apprenticeship of Mark Twain. By Edgar Mar­ quess Branch. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1950. Pp. xiv, 325. $4.00. Mark Twain as a Literary Artist. By Gladys Carmen Bellamy. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1950. Pp...

...Thomas A. Tenney Mark Twain and “Life on the Mississippi” . By Kruse Horst H. . With a Foreword by Emerson Everett . Amherst : The University of Massachusetts Press , 1982 . Pp. xx , 184 . $17.50 . Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 478 The South Atlantic...

...Robert D. Warth Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 Mark Twain and the Gorky Affair Robert D. Warth From a vaguely sympathetic observer of Russia in 1867, the occasion of his first and only visit, Mark Twain evolved two decades later into a vociferous and tireless critic of Tsarist...

...Louis J. Budd Mark Twain & the South . By Pettit Arthur G. . Lexington : University Press of Kentucky , 1974 . Pp. 224 . $9.75 . Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 142 The South Atlantic Quarterly One appendix in each volume of tales is a historical essay...

...Arthur G. Pettit Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 Mark Twain and His Times: A Bicentennial Appreciation Arthur G. Pettit I warn the reader that if he leaves out of the account an indignant sense of right and wrong, a scorn of all affectation and pretense, an ardent hate...

...Louis J. Budd Mark Twain: An American Prophet . By Geismar Maxwell . Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company , 1970 . Pp. 564 . $10.00 . Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 426 The South Atlantic Quarterly intimate account of Pound s career largely exclusive of personal...

...Willard Thorp Southern Excursions: Essays on Mark Twain and Others . By Leary Lewis . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 1971 . Pp. xvii , 229 . $8.50 . Copyright © 1972 by Duke University Press 1972 Book Reviews 279 of Edmund Wilson, the place (large) within...

...Edwin W. Bowen Copyright © 1916 by Duke University Press 1916 Mark Twain Edwin W. Bowen Professor of Latin in Randolph-Macon College Mark Twain s authorized biography by Albert Bigelow Paine represents him as a great humorist, a philosopher, a wise critic of life and the foremost American...

...H. Houston Peckham Copyright © 1920 by Duke University Press 1920 The Literary Status of Mark Twain, 1877-1890 H, Houston Peckham Purdue University In the realm of pure literature perhaps the most repre­ sentative American author of the eighties was Mark Twain. This is an amazingly bold...

...R. Bruce Bickley, Jr. Mark Twain and John Bull: The British Connection . By Baetzhold Howard G. . Bloomington : Indiana University Press , 1970 . Pp. xvii , 394 . $15.00 . Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 Book Reviews 171 be narrow and limited in its appeal...

...Allison R. Ensor Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 The House United: Mark Twain and Henry Watterson Celebrate Lincoln s Birthday, 1901 AUison R. Ensor On the evening of February 11, 1901, a Carnegie Hall audience which included J. P. Morgan and Andrew Carnegie Presi­ dent...

...James W. Gargano Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 Pudd nhead Wilson: Mark Twain as Genial Satan James W. Gargano In spite of (or in addition to) its seriousness, Mark Twain s Pudd nhead Wilson is an impressive comic triumph. The famous aphor­ isms of the misunderstood hero...

...Robert Regan BOOKS Mark Twain: The Fate of Humor. By James M. Cox. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1966. Pp. viii, 321. $7.50. Perhaps we should not take issue with the critics and biog­ raphers who find the man who wrote Huckleberry Finn and the man who owned the company which published...

... of the slapstick humor but none of the subleties. Lamentably, Munford has a biographer without a sense of humor. UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND HARRY M. WARD Mark Twain as Critic. By Sydney J. Krause. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1967. Pp. xi, 308. $7.50. Anybody who buys Mark Twain as Critic will get at least his...

...Edward Stone Turn West, Turn East: Mark Twain and Henry James . By Canby Henry Seidel . Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company , 1951 . Pp. 318 . $3.50 . Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 468 The South Atlantic Quarterly Edwin Arlington Robinson: A Critical Study...

...Clarence Gohdes Mark Twain, Business Man . Edited by Webster Samuel Charles . Boston : Little, Brown and Company , 1946 . Pp. xiii , 409 . $4.00 . Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 396 The South Atlantic Quarterly previous history of both Unitarianism...

...G. Harrison Orians Copyright © 1941 by Duke University Press 1941 WALTER SCOTT, MARK TWAIN, AND THE CIVIL WAR G. HARRISON ORIANS THERE IS A curious charge made by Mark Twain that Walter Scott was the sustainer of maudlin Middle-Age romanticism . . . in the midst of the plainest and sturdiest...

...Walter Fuller Taylor Copyright © 1938 by Duke University Press 1938 MARK TWAIN AND THE MACHINE AGE WALTER FULLER TAYLOR I WHEN, IN HIS campaign of 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed a New Deal, his slogan, at least, need have been no novelty to Americans. The phrase was coined...

...Clarence Gohdes The Letters of Quintus Curtius Snodgrass . By Twain Mark . Edited by Leisy Ernest E. . Dallas : University Press , 1946 . Pp. xii , 76 . $2.00 . Copyright © 1947 by Duke University Press 1947 300 The South Atlantic Quarterly Poe as a Literary Critic...

...Lewis Leary Mark Twain in Nevada . By Mack Effie Mona . New York and London : Charles Scribner’s Sons , 1947 . Pp. xiv , 398 . $5.00 . The Big Bonanza. An Authentic Account of the Discovery, History, and Working of the World-Renowned Comstock Lode of Nevada, Including...