September – Sam signed the flyleaf of Jeanne d’Arc, Maid of Orleans, Deliverer of France, etc. by T. Douglas Murray: “S.L. Clemens, September, 1902” [Gribben 494].
Atlantic Monthly reviewed “A Double-Barrelled Detective Story” on p. 415-16. The review was signed by S.M.F. Wells, p.25 gives authorship as H.W. Boynton. Tenney: “ ‘In his prime Mark Twain was often more than merely funny,’ but lately he has turned serious, and his ‘public has not known quite what to do with’ his recent serious writing. [the story] lacks ‘an effect of tragic horror,’ while furnishing scant opportunity for humor; ‘yet what if not humor is to prevent uncertainty, the intrusion of false notes, and anything like half-heartedness in the treatment of such a theme—to the artist so gross an error as to amount almost to sacrilege?’ The reviewer calls Frank Stockton ‘a much more delicate humorist, a far more skillful artist than Mark Twain,’ and asks, ‘How does it happen that the later work of these two prominent American humorists should exhibit so marked a deficiency in the larger sort of humor?’” [Tenney: “A Reference Guide First Annual Supplement,” American Literary Realism, Autumn 1977 p. 332-3].
Century Magazine ran “The Home of Mark Twain” p. 674-77. Tenney: “A popular description of Hannibal, with five photographs; briefly summarized in Anon., ‘Was Mark Twain Tom Sawyer?’” [37].
Review of Reviews (London) ran “Was Mark Twain Tom Sawyer?” p.272. Tenney: “A summary of Henry W. Wharton, ‘The Boyhood Home of Mark Twain’” [36].