First, two notes about my posted book: the works cited is now complete (until y'all point out what I've missed), and a copy has been sent to Taylor to be added to the website. For those of you still having problems accessing that site, I can send the bib to you directly. Secondly, I have made one small addition that belongs at the end of my disscussion of Macfarlane in Chap. IV, just before the section on Thomas Paine. It reads: (Note: In 1993, Paul Baender published "Alias Macfarlane: Who in L was `L'?" [Resources for American Literary Study 19.1, pages 23-34], a response to my case, restated above, supporting Macfarlane's existence published in the Mark Twain Journal [27, Spring 1989, pages 14-17.]. In this essay, Baender asserts the author of the "Boarding House sketch" was not Twain and was possibly a humorist with the surname of Larkin. Leaving the case open, Baender concludes "nobody should know whether there was a Macfarlane prototype" or should care as it would be unimportant imformation. While attribution of the sketch will always be in question, Baender still has not made a convincing case that Twain's autobiographical dictations were fiction rather than reminiscence. His dismissal of Macfarlane as unimportant is, of course, an opinion and therefore debatable.) And as the point is debatable, this is precisely the Forum to offer up the subject. Just saw on the news the new Baltimore football team will be named the Ravans after Poe's poem. If Hannibal was ever to grow large enuff to have its own team, I wonder what Twain collective noun would be appropriate. For those of you interested in Mark Twain's critical reception in Germany, I point you to _Mark Twain's German Critical Reception: An Annotated Bibliography_ compiled by J. C. B. Kinch. (New York: Greenwood P, 1989). It's a lengthy tome in English, kinda the German answer to Tom Tenney's reference guide. I haven't looked for references to picaros or trends in German scholarship there, but suspect this book would be of valuable service.