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> _Mark Twain's Notebooks: Journals, Letters, Observations, Wit, Wisdom, and 
> Doodles_. Edited by Carlo DeVito. Black Dog & Leventhal, 2015. Pp. 333. 
> Paperback. ISBN 978-1-57912-997-2. $19.95.
>This somewhat misleadingly titled book is a seemingly random collection of 
>Mark Twain's quotations, short letters, and doodles, along with extracts 
>from longer works, stitched together with a spare narrative and lavish 
>illustrations. It is an attractive book but suffers from inadequate 
>vetting. Its factual and copyediting errors are too numerous to list ...

Another great review. It's too bad there's no way to print this out and tape 
it to the cover of every copy of the book in question.

-- Bob G.

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