January – Robert Barr’s sketch, “Clemens, Samuel L. ‘Mark Twain.’ A Character Sketch” ran in the January 1898 issue of McClure’s Magazine, as well as in the Feb. issue of Idler [Tenney 28]. Publishers Weekly (London) Jan. 8, reviewed Barr’s article: “Mr. Barr is a man who himself possesses the secret of devising humorous and grotesque tales, and as he has been the close personal friend of Mark Twain for a long time, he gives an interesting study of him.”

Laurence Hutton reviewed FE in Harper’s Monthly, “Literary Notes,” p. 328 sup. 3-4. “There is much to interest, amuse, and instruct the reader here, and if FE is more grave and subdued than IA or TA, the cause is easily found in the loss of Susan Clemens just as the world tour came to an end” [Tenney: “A Reference Guide Seventh Annual Supplement,” American Literary Realism, Autumn 1983 p. 168].

Theodore F. Wolfe’s “Literary Shrines of Hartford” ran in The Peterson Magazine, p.92-6. “Includes a description and full-page photograph of MT’s Hartford home [Tenney: “A Reference Guide Third Annual Supplement,” American Literary Realism, Autumn 1979 p. 185].

Review of Reviews (London) reviewed More Tramps Abroad, (FE). Tenney: “Chiefly summary and extensive quotation of a ‘first-class book of travel, entertaining, interesting, up-to-date, genial, full of Mark Twain’s descriptive charm, and richly spiced with his extravagant non-sense’” [28].

American Monthly Review of Reviews, p.116-17 ran an anonymous review of FE. “Whether old admirers of Mark Twain will agree with the New York SUN in its opinion that his latest book is his best is doubtful, but that it will take a very high rank in the long catalogue of Mr. Clemens’ contributions to our knowledge of the world and of human nature is certainly true” [Tenney: “A Reference Guide Third Annual Supplement,” American Literary Realism, Autumn 1979 p. 185].