In 1888 Samuel Langhorne Clemens, William Dean Howells, and Charles Hopkins Clark combined their talents to publish Mark Twain’s Library of Humor. Howells who was powerfully struck by the richness of the indigenous lode they had uncovered, was led to observe: “Smack of whom it would, it has always been so racy of the soil that the native flavor prevails throughout, and whether Yankee, Knickerbocker, Southern Californian, refined or broad, prose, verse, or newspaper, it was and is always American.”1 Their hefty anthology was “a monument,” as Clarence Gohdes recognized in his later foreword to the volume on its being reissued, “to the collaboration of the chief American humorist and the first of our great critics to maintain that humor should be a source of pride to all who appraise the contribution of the United States to the world’s store of literature. [download]
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