As a Howellsian who reads TWAIN-L primarily for glimpses of The Dean, I am glad to see references to Howells' defense of the Haymarket anarchists. No doubt more recent Twain scholarship can cast additional light on Twain's position, but I offer this in the meantime. In the _Mark Twain-Howells Letters_, Gibson and Smith note that "There is no direct evidence that Clemens shared Howells's intense concern with the fate of the anarchists, though in March 1888 he received from Howells and presumably read pamphlets about the trial. . . . . Clemens may have shared Howells's indignation if not his surprise over the condemnation and execution of four of the eight defendants in a mood of national hysteria" (p. 581). Howells' courageous and solitary protest of the execution of the anarchists remains one of the best arguments for reassessment of his career, although the quality of his work in both criticism and fiction needs no merely political support. Peg Wherry Kansas State Univ.