>The _Library of American Literature_has been described as the "albatross" >of Clemens's Webster publishing company that helped drive it into >bankruptcy. Clemens discusses it briefly in his _Autobiography_ and >mentions an unnamed Cincinatti publisher who also went bankrupt with this >effort? Are there any reviews available for this collection? And any ideas >who the Cincinatti fatality may have been? I'm not sure, but I think you'll find some answers in _MT's Letters to His Publishers_. I seem to remember quite a few references to _LAM_, as you'd expect. Scott Dalrymple