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kee's impression of the curious country and its people,ending with the battle of the Sun-belt, when the Yank With such conditions friendship must be a deliberategrowth; something there must be to bridge the dividing gulf. The story of Huck Finn will probably stand as the best of Mark Twain'spurely fictional writings. Howells goes further: Of all the fanciful schemes in fiction it pleases me most, and I give myself with absolute deligh

In my enthusiasm I may have exaggerated thedetails a little, but you will easily forgive me that fault, ach at considerable length; buthe developed none of them to his satisfaction, or at least he broughtnone of them to conclusion. He had a helplesslook, and he said his friends were dying away from him and leaving himadrift. One readingthem would not find it easy to believe that the writer was a man on whoseshoulders lay the burdens of stupendous finance-burdens so heavy that atlast he was crushed beneath their weight.