There is no limit to Mark Twain's inventive genius, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn must be pronounced the most amusing book he has written in years. The best proof of Twain's range and originality is found in this book, in which the reader's interest is so strongly enlisted in the fortunes of two boys and a runaway slave that he follows their adventures with keen curiosity, although his common sense tells him that the incidents are as absurd as they are fantastic. Huckleberry Finn is a tour de force, in which the most unlikely materials are transmuted into a work of literary art. —The San Francisco Chronicle, 15 March 15, 1885