February 10 Saturday – The New York Times, p. BR1, an anonymous squib: “Topics of the Week.”

Two volumes by Mark Twain are in active preparation at Harper & Brothers’. One is to be a collection of essays and the other a book of short stories. Most of the material has already appeared in recent numbers of various American magazines. It is said that Mr. Clemens’s dissertation on the idiosyncrasies and inconsistencies of Christian Science will in some way furnish the title for the book of essays, which as a whole will present certain problems of life with characteristic humor, but with an undercurrent of undoubted sincerity, which has of late been more conspicuous in the work of this author than ever before.