JOURNALS - SPECIAL ISSUE

_Meridian: The Semi-Annual from the University of Virginia_, Issue 15,
Spring/Summer 2005. Single issue $7 plus shipping. This issue publishes
what is believed to be a previously unpublished Twain manuscript for a
speech that was never delivered. The article is one in the Lost Classic
series and is titled "An After Dinner Speech: Girard College and Religion."
Evidence indicates the speech was written for delivery on February 6, 1889
at Yale University but never used. Graduate student Cory Maclauchlin wrote
the introduction to the speech and describes Twain's content as addressing
controversial issues of race relations, imperialism, and religion in
schools. Maclauchlin's introduction is available online via the journal's
website at:

http://www.engl.virginia.edu/meridian/

An interview with Maclauchlin and a photo of one page from the manuscript
which is owned by the University of Virginia is online at:

http://www.virginia.edu/insideuva/classic.html

Single issues can be purchased from the university bookstore at
800-759-4667 or by contacting the staff through the journal's website at:

http://www.engl.virginia.edu/meridian/?page=contact


Barbara Schmidt