Huckleberry Finn

Huckleberry Finn

In his latest story, Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade), by Mark Twain, Mr. Clemens has
made a very
distinct literary advance over Tom Sawyer, as an interpreter of human nature and a contributor to our stock
of
original pictures of American life. Still adhering to his plan of narrating the adventures of boys, with a
primeval
and Robin Hood freshness, he has broadened his canvas and given us a picture of a people, of a
geographical region, of a life that is new in the world. The scene of his romance is the Mississippi river.
Mr.
Clemens has written of this river before specifically, but he has not before presented it to the imagination so
distinctly nor so powerfully. Huck Finn's voyage down the Mississippi with the run away nigger Jim, and
with
occasionally other companions, is an adventure fascinating in itself as any of the classic outlaw stories, but
in
order that the reader may know what the author has done for him, let him notice the impression left on his
mind
of this lawless, mysterious, wonderful Mississippi, when he has closed the book. But it is not alone the
river that
is indelibly impressed upon the mind, the life that went up and down it and went on along its banks are
projected with extraordinary power. Incidentally, and with a true artistic instinct, the villages, the cabins,
the
people of this river become startlingly real. The beauty of this is that it is apparently done without effort.
Huck
floating down the river happens to...

Huckleberry Finn

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