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ntan incomplete and misleading note (since often reprinted), which he oncemade in a moment of anger, when he was in a less judicial frame of mind. In this particularform of the story a man sits down to write some memories and falls into adoze. The day after Clemens reached Elmira there came a summonssaying that the General had asked to see him. Clemens miserable, her husband in a delightful state of anticipation.

Your sincere admirer, GEORGE B. Clemens was moved deeply, and began to recall thisold friend and that whose lives and property might be in danger. e said, would produce an effectquite beyond the reach of plain argument, not to do an innocent man aninjustice. In the brief column and a half which it occupies, this comment of AndrewLang's constitutes as thoughtful and fair an estimate of Mark Twain'swork as was ever written.