May 4 Saturday – Positive reviews of The Jumping Frog continued. From the Boston Evening Transcript, p.1:
As a humorist the author of these sketches has acquired a wide newspaper reputation, not only for his drollery, but for his sagacity of observation, his keep perception of character, and the individuality of his style and tone of thinking (“New Publications” in the Boston Evening Transcript, p1) [Budd, Reviews 25].
The New York Citizen agreed, adding:
Mark Twain is a genuine humorist….He imitates no one, but is humor is thoroughly and entirely his own (“The Citizen’s Book Table” in the New York Citizen, p4) [Budd, Reviews 26].