There is no limit to Mark Twain’s inventive genius, as well as the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn must be pronounced one of the most amusing book he has written in years. The very best proof Twain’s range and originality is found in this book, where the reader’s curiosity is so highly enlisted in the fortunes of two boys and a runaway slave that he comes after their travels with keen interest, although his common sense tells him how the situations are as absurd because they are superb. Huckleberry Finn is certainly a tour de drive, where the most improbable components are transmuted into a function of literary artwork. – The San Francisco Chronicle, March 15, 1885.