Hi! I've been lurking for a few weeks, but have been coaxed into action by Scott Holmes concern about Twain being politically incorrect and no longer taught in public schools. I too think this would be a tragedy. I can't understand how people can apply today's social outlook to a work of fiction based on how things were at the time. I look at it in a historical context. That's how people thought then, we no longer think that way ( or should no longer think that way). Slavery is outlawed. It wasn't then, but even then, Huck felt a dilemma. That's what makes the book Okay for me. It does not advocate slavery, it presents a moral dilemma. So now that I have preached to the choir, I'd like to know how Twain's CHRISTIAN SCIENCE book is viewed by scholars. I found it to be a very unusual work. If it were written today, and Mary Baker Eddy were alive, I suspect he would be sued big time. Are there any stories about this? Thank you in advance for your time. I am a library system administrator in Utica, NY and a life long Twain enthusiast. I like his travel books, The Gilded Age, and his short stories better than Huck and Tom, although they are great too. I appreciate your indulgence. Mary Lou Caskey