Mr. McFarland--

I have three you don't mention:

Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen, *Cosmopolitan* 18 (January 1895): 379

*The Bookman* (London) 7 (January 1895): 122

*The Spectator* (London), 74 (16 March 1895): 367-68

My guess is that with patient searching principally through newspapers,
not magazines, you could come up with another fifteen or twenty reviews.
Without going through that kind of search, it's not easy to say why
reviews are scarce because you can't even say that they *are* scarce.

I'll put copies of the above three in tonight's mail. Good luck.

Bob Hirst
General Editor, Mark Twain Project
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On Fri, 29 Mar 1996, Sidlon wrote:

> Greetings!
>
>     This is my first post to the list, and I was hoping that someone out
> there might be able to shed some light on where I could find reviews
> before 1900 of Puddn'head Wilson.  I'm working on a web project for my
> collegiate English course, and have only been able to find three reviews
> so far to include on my page (from the Idler, the Athanaeum, and the
> Critic).  If anyone has a tip on where to find more, please drop me a line!
> I'm beginning to suspect that perhaps critics of the 1890s simply didn't
> want to review Puddn'head, a book which confronted slavery yet lacked the
> coarse language which made Huck Finn worthy of controversy.  Any comments?
>
>                                 Yours sincerely,
>
>                                  Michael D. McFarland
>
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