At long last and more than a bit overdue, the premiere issue of the Mark Twain Annual, the new journal of The Mark Twain Circle, is at the press and will be mailed out to Circle members in June. I hereunto append the contents below ("Jumping Frog" reference). If you are not a member of the Mark Twain Circle and want to join, send a check for $15 ($16 if outside U.S.) to the executive coordinator: Prof. Joseph Csicsila Executive Coordinator, Mark Twain Circle English Department Eastern Michigan University Ypsilanti, MI 48197 BTW, although the 2003 issue is coming out in the very late spring of 2004, the 2004 issue is STILL scheduled for the fall of 2004. You can send critical or pedagogical articles on Mark Twain to me: John Bird Winthrop University And now the contents of this year's issue: Editor's Re:Marks John Bird Critical Essays No "Mere Accidental Accidents": Roughing It as a Novel Lawrence I. Berkove Huck's and Jim's Dynamic Interactions: Dialogues, Ethics, Empathy, Respect Victor A. Doyno Mark Twain and Fishing Gary Scharnhorst The Androgynous Warrior: An Examination of Gender Blending in Twain's Military Heroes William Hecker In His Own Time: The Early Academic Reception of Mark Twain Terry Oggel Pedagogical Essays Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Again!): Teaching for Social Justice or Sam Clemens' Children's Crusade Michael J. Kiskis Lynching Colonel Sherburn James S. Leonard Forbidden Thoughts: New Challenges of Teaching Twain's The Tragedy of Pudd' nhead Wilson Jocelyn Chadwick A Mark Twain Medieval Cookbook for the Classroom Jules A. Hojnowski Reviews (seven reviews)