The Mark Twain Forum needs a reviewer for the following book: Gregg Camfield, _Sentimental Twain: Samuel Clemens in the Maze of Moral Philosophy_ (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994). 296 pp. Cloth, ISBN 0-8122-3285-2, $34.95. The deadline for the review would be two months after you receive it. Reviews on the Forum should be of publishable quality. You are free to publish your review elsewhere, so long as (1) it appears first on the MT Forum; and (2) subsequent publications (in print or electronic media) acknowledge that your review (or an earlier version) appeared first on the MT Forum. This book is described by the jacket as follows: In _Sentimental Twain_, Gregg Camfield examines the major and minor works of Mark Twain to redraw the boundaries between sentimentalism and realism in the second half of the nineteenth century. Beginning by taking the reactions to the question of race in _Adventures of Huckleberry Finn_ as a test case, Camfield reveals that sentimental ethics persist, though buried, in American culture, and he argues that Americans' ambivalent responses to sentimentalism explain some of the continuing controversy surrounding Mark Twain's work. Specifically, he contends, insofar as the liberal agenda remains substantially sentimental--especially when dealing with issues of race--today's readers of Twain participate in the same dialectic between sentimental compassion and realistic cynicism that Twain himself confronted. Camfield then traces the cultural development of this ethical dialectic and follows Mark Twain's reactions to it, showing that Twain was a closet sentimentalist whose public attacks on sentimentalism veiled a deep longing for a more compassionate world. Throughout, _Sentimental Twain_ is grounded in a discussion of philosophical contexts of nineteenth-century American sentimental literature, paying particular attention to the Scottish Common Sense philosophers, but looking forward to the Pragmatism of William James. Please send me a message with your snail-mail address if you're interested in reviewing this book. Taylor Roberts Coordinator