On Wed, 06 Sep 1995 "ALAN C. REESE" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: =Prety brave to be interlopin' in a Twain list sniffin' around for a =Jane "Austin" list considerin' Twain's opinion of her work which he =called "thoroughly artificial." During a sea voyage he finds the =ship's library devoid of JA books and comments,"That one omission =alonewould make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book =in it." Another time he said,"Every time I read P&J, I want to dig her =up and beat her over the skull with her own shin bone." ...and didn't he also once say it's a shame that she was allowed to die a natural death? :-) Bonnie Howard [log in to unmask]