>The _Library of American Literature_has been described as the "albatross"
>of Clemens's Webster publishing company that helped drive it into
>bankruptcy. Clemens discusses it briefly in his _Autobiography_ and
>mentions an unnamed Cincinatti publisher who also went bankrupt with this
>effort? Are there any reviews available for this collection?  And any ideas
>who the Cincinatti fatality may have been?

I'm not sure, but I think you'll find some answers in _MT's Letters to His
Publishers_.  I seem to remember quite a few references to _LAM_, as you'd
expect.

Scott Dalrymple