April – Matthew Freke Turner wrote “Artemus Ward and the Humourists of America,” for New Quarterly Magazine. Turner didn’t care much for Sam, thought he and Harte deserved public criticism; that Sam’s was a “low humor, ridiculing sacred things, forced, long-winded, tedious in his parodies,” [Tenney 7].

Robert Underwood Johnson (1853-1937) wrote a tongue-in-cheek review of Mark Twain’s Adhesive Scrap-Book for the April issue of Scribner’s Monthly [Tenney 8].