In addition to Hal Bush's excellent suggestion of seeing Prof. Ishihara's _Mark Twain in Japan_ for cross-cultural analysis, for Russian responses see Yan Berenitsky's pieces from _Liturnaya Gazeta_ in the pamphlet "Mark Twain and The Russians: An Exchange of Views." An excerpt from that as well as an excerpt from the previously- untranslated book _Mark Twain and America_ by Abel Startsev, one of the leading Soviet Americanists, will be in _The Mark Twain Anthology_ forthcoming this March from the Library of America (along with writing on Twain that originally appeared in Chinese, Danish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, and Yiddish that has not previously been available in English). = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Shelley Fisher Fishkin Professor of English and Director of American Studies, Stanford University