As a longtime lurking Howellsian in the MT Forum, I must seize this opportunity to thank Jim Bird for focussing on what Howells actually wrote about Twain, rather than perpetuating that old wives' tale (I choose the phrase deliberately) about Howells censoring Twain. Howells was an amazingly perceptive critic. I just finished talking, with a friend who teaches 18th century and early fiction, about Howells' intro to a 1918 edition of _Pride and Prejudice_, a conversation in which I also managed to mention Howells' 1920 anthology of great modern American short stories that included "The Yellow Wall-Paper." I too am grateful to Jim Zwick for making an e-text of _My Mark Twain_ available: I hope it will encourage the re-discovery of Howells the critic. Peg Wherry