JOURNALS - SPECIAL ISSUE _Mark Twain Studies: Special Feature I: New Perspectives on 'The War-Prayer' -- An International Forum and Special Feature II: Twain and Asia_, Volume 2, October 2006. 192 pages. ISSN 1349-4635. Single issues $23 plus $3 shipping. This English language journal is published by the Japan Mark Twain Society every three years. Shelley Fisher Fishkin has written an introduction for an international round-table discussion on Twain's "The War-Prayer" and provides a corrected text from Twain's manuscript and typescript. Twenty-six essays of several pages each are featured. The essays range in approach from historical to literary to personal. American contributors whose names will be familiar to members of the Mark Twain Forum include Ron Powers, Kevin Mac Donnell, Wesley Britton, Dwayne Eutsey, Martin Zehr, Michael Kiskis, Darryl Brock, and Barry Crimmins. The second feature of this issue is a section titled "Twain and Asia" and features three essays: "From 'Mark Twain's Pet' to ''Merican Jap': The Strange Career of Wallace Irwin's Hashimura Togo" by Uzawa Yoshiko; "Not Twain, But Twichell: The Hartford Support System of Edward House's Japanese Students" by Takashima Mariko; and "Representations of the Chinese Other in Mark Twain's World" by Darren Chiang-Schultheiss. Single issues can be ordered by sending your name and address and an international money order for $26 to: Dr. ISHIHARA Tsuyoshi Waseda University, School of Education 1-6-1 Nishi-Waseda, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8050 Japan Dr. Ishihara can be emailed at <[log in to unmask]> Domestic money orders or personal checks cannot be accepted. ~~~~~ BOOKS _Inuit Entertainers in the United States: From the Chicago World's Fair through the Birth of Hollywood_. By Jim Zwick. Softcover. 206 pages. Infinity Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 0741434881. $18.95. Zwick, better known in Mark Twain circles as a researcher on Twain's views regarding anti-imperialism, has turned his recent attention to tracking the lives of Inuit performers who were brought to the United States for exhibition in World's Fair expositions. Zwick makes outstanding use of historical newspaper databases to trace the entertainment careers of Esther Eneutseak and her daughter Columbia who was born at the Chicago World's Columbian exposition in 1893. Zwick does not include Twain in this book but includes the parallel on the website for the book. Twain's "The Esquimau Maiden's Romance," first published in the November 1893 issue of _Cosmopolitan_ was almost certainly inspired by the Eskimo Village exhibit at Chicago and the accompanying newspaper reports related to conflicts between managers and the Inuit over the refusal to wear fur in hot weather. Due to illness, Twain did not leave his Chicago hotel room to visit the Chicago World's Fair but he did visit the Charleston Exposition in 1902 and the Jamestown Exposition in 1907 where Esther and her Inuit family were also featured. The website for the book is: http://www.inuitentertainers.com/ Amazon webpage for this book is: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0741434881/twainwebmarktwaiA