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Lang's reply was an article in the Illustrated London News on "The
Art of Mark Twain." Lang had no admiration to express for the
Yankee, which he confessed he had not cared to read, but he
glorified Huck Finn to the highest. "I can never forget, nor be
ungrateful for the exquisite pleasure with which I read Huckleberry
Finn for the first time, years ago," he wrote; "I read it again last
night, deserting Kenilworth for Huck. I never laid it down till I
had finished it."
Lang closed his article by referring to the story of Huck as the
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great American novel which had escaped the eyes of those who
watched to see this new planet swim into their ken."
XXX. LETTERS, 1890, CHIEFLY TO JOS. T. GOODMAN. THE GREAT
MACHINE
ENTERPRISE
Dr. John Brown's son, whom Mark Twain and his wife had known in
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as "Jock," sent copies of Dr. John Brown and His Sister Isabella, by
E. T. McLaren. It was a gift appreciated in the Clemens home.
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