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with Professor Matthews as a marvellously accurate portrayal of a whde civilization. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) is a work of humorous invention set in motion by G. W. Cable, and he made his contemporary references pointed and painful to English sensibilities. A Connecticut Yankee is his Don Quixote, a sincere book, full of lifelong convictions earnestly held, a book ch got none. This much we must admit: we are glad to have Joan of Arc on the shelf beside A Connecticut Yankee to complete our conception of that versatile and representative American whom we call Mark because he is an innovator. The great notes of his innovation from Innocents abroad to A Connecticut Yankee are: first, the disillusioned treatment of history; second, the fearless exploitation of tssimism. In the first class go the foreign-travel books, The Prince and the Pauper, and A Connecticut Yankee; and the impulse properly proceeding from them is imaginative satire. In the second class