BRIEFLY NOTED: _Mark Twain's Notebooks: Journals, Letters, Observations, Wit, Wisdom, and Doodles_. Edited by Carlo DeVito. Black Dog & Leventhal, 2015. Pp. 333. Paperback. ISBN 978-1-57912-997-2. $19.95. This somewhat misleadingly titled book is a seemingly random collection of Mark Twain's quotations, short letters, and doodles, along with extracts from longer works, stitched together with a spare narrative and lavish illustrations. It is an attractive book but suffers from inadequate vetting. Its factual and copyediting errors are too numerous to list in a brief notice so a sampling must suffice. Susy Clemens, for example, is called "Suzy" in one place and Clara Clemens is called "Sara." A famous faked photograph showing Mark Twain sitting in a South African cart, (adapted from the frontispiece of _Following the Equator_) is presented as authentic. Several Mark Twain works are misdated. Mark Twain and Bret Harte's play "Ah Sin!" is mistitled as "Oh Sin!" The 3-volume edition of the Mark Twain's notebooks from the 1970s is mistakenly described as "the complete and definitive edition of all his surviving notebooks." Kevin Mac Donnell of Austin, Texas, is incorrectly said to be connected to the University of Virginia library. This list could go on. DeVito's text and bibliography rely mainly on public domain sources rather than recent scholarship. Albert Bigelow Paine's 1912 biography of Mark Twain appears to be DeVito's main source of biographical information, and DeVito frequently draws on Paine's _Mark Twain's Autobiography_ (1924) rather than the recent more accurate texts from the Mark Twain Project. DeVito also draws on Paine's notoriously unreliable 1917 edition of Mark Twain letters, although carefully edited texts are available in modern editions and on the Mark Twain Project's online site. The book features eye-catching illustrations, but some of their captions cannot be trusted. For example, a photo that DeVito represents as a picture of Mark Twain's Hartford home shows the wrong house (it may have been copied from the discredited book _Mark Twain's America_ by Harry Katz and the Library of Congress). Sources are given for only part of the illustrations, and some of the unsourced illustrations appear to have been lifted from online sites. The book's small size--approximately 8 1/2 by 6 inches--renders many illustrations too small to make out details. The book is presumably aimed at the casual gift-buying consumers, not readers with a serious interest in Mark Twain. In sum, the book duplicates many existing errors, while contributing a raft of new ones into the printed record and is perhaps better suited for the bathroom than a coffee table.