Like John W. Young, I was disappointed by the new Random House _Huckleberry Finn_. Specifically the textual apparatus was not what I was expecting. I just can't see spending $25 on an edition of HF just to get 35 pages or so of "selected" changes from the first half manuscript. What I saw was fascinating, but as I say, not worth the money to me. So I guess I'll read it in the library and wait for either a paperback version or--better--a scholarly edition, with all changes, deletions, etc. Just my opinion, of course, and maybe I'll like it better once I examine it more closely. I walked into the bookstore yesterday with the money burning a hole in my pocket, but I walked out without it.