March – Brander Matthews’ article, “American Fiction Again,” ran in Cosmopolitan, p.636-40. From Tenney:

“…praises the depiction of Southern attitudes toward slavery, and the family feuds and mob violence. E.W. Kemble’s illustrations are executed ‘with the same fidelity and care’ he gave to an edition of UNCLE TOM’S CABIN. Robert Louis Stevenson called HF the strongest book in English of its decade, and Matthews praises the structure, the style, and the author’s success in suppressing himself and seeing everything through Huck’s eyes” [Tenney, supplement in Am. Lit. Realism, Autumn 1977 p.330].