September 29 Saturday – James B. Pond’s article, “Across the Continent with Mark Twain,” ran in Saturday Evening Post p.6-7. Tenney: “Chiefly on the trip to the West Coast in 1895, beginning the world tour that would lead to FE; includes excerpts from Pond’s journal, MT letters of 17 September 1897 (from Weggis, Lake Lucerne), 4 April 1899 (from Vienna), and one undated. Illustrated with ten photographs of MT. (Stowe-Day Library)” [Tenney: “A Reference Guide Third Annual Supplement,” American Literary Realism, Autumn 1979 p. 186-7]. Note: Sam had protested vigorously to Pond on Sept. 14 about using any of his letters in Pond’s published writings. Evidently his protest arrived too late.

Academy (London) ran an anonymous article, “Mark’s New Way,” p.258-9. Tenney: “A review of The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg. ‘The new Mark Twain—the Mark Twain of this book in particular—is not a whit less readable than the old, and he is more provocative of thought’” [31].

The Outlook (London) ran an anonymous article, “Mark Twain’s Aftermath,” p.280. Tenney: “A review of The man that Corrupted Hadleyburg. There are a few good parts, but ‘most of this volume reads like a third-rate imitation of the Mark Twain whom we knew and loved of old” [31].

Athenaeum (London) ran an anonymous review of The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg p.410. Tenney: “This collection includes some good things, but ‘diffuseness…spoils most of the matter in this book.’ The title story is not mentioned” [32].