I want to return to Gopnick for a moment. I just finished reading the whole of his "The Man In the White Suit" piece in the November 29 *New Yorker. *I think it's a splendid essay on Twain and on the legacy of his writing in American culture. The early reports of the essay on the Forum were unfair to the depth of this piece and to the broad consideration that Gopnick brings to his reading of Twain, especially in this essay *Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. *Rather than complain the Gopnick must not have read the whole of the autobiography volume, it is instead clear to me that a good deal of the complaint against Gopnick must have come from those supporters of Twain who didn't read the whole essay. I encourage you all to get a copy from your library and read it. It should make us a bit humble in our zest to be critical of a writer who is, in the end, kin to those of us who appreciate Twain's complexity. -- Michael J. Kiskis Leonard Tydings Grant Professor of American Literature Elmira College One Park Place Elmira, NY 14901