Again, I thank everyone for the help you've given me in the past. My query here is about Twain's opinion of Kipling's poem "The White Man's Burden." I am trying to find out if T made any evaluative comments about it--or any comments at all. Alan Gribben mentions a bunch of other Kipling works that T owned or commented on, and I know they knew each other. But so far I have not found anything pertaining to "The White Man's Burden." Did he just not want to comment because they were friends? Or have I just been looking in all the wrong places? By the way, an editor friend just passed me the galley copy of Who Is Mark Twain?, the collection of previously unpublished pieces assembled & introduced by Bob Hirst and published (or soon to be published) by HarperCollins. It looks terrific. --s Susan K. Harris University of Kansas Lawrence, KS