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Introduction
Preface
The Story Of A Speech
Plymouth Rock And The Pilgrims
Compliments And Degrees
Books, Authors, And Hats
Dedication Speech
The Horrors Of The German Language
German For The Hungarians
A New German Word
Unconscious Plagiarism
The Weather
The Babies
Our Children And Great Discoveries
Educating Theatre-Goers
The Educational Theatre
Poets As Policemen
Pudd’nhead Wilson Dramatized
Daly Theatre
The Dress Of Civilized Woman
Dress Reform And Copyright
College Girls
Girls
The Ladies
Woman’s Press Club
Votes For Women
Woman-An Opinion
Advice To Girls
Taxes And Morals
Tammany And Croker
Municipal Corruption
Municipal Government
China And The Philippines
Theoretical And Practical Morals
Layman’s Sermon
University Settlement Society
Public Education Association
Education And Citizenship
Courage
The Dinner To Mr. Choate
On Stanley And Livingstone
Henry M. Stanley
Dinner To Mr. Jerome
Henry Irving
Dinner To Hamilton W. Mabie
Introducing Nye And Riley
Dinner To Whitelaw Reid
Rogers And Railroads
The Old-Fashioned Printer
Society Of American Authors
Reading-Room Opening
Literature
Disappearance Of Literature
The New York Press Club Dinner
The Alphabet And Simplified Spelling
Spelling And Pictures
Books And Burglars
Authors’ Club
Booksellers
Mark Twain's First Appearance
Morals And Memory
Queen Victoria
Joan Of Arc
Accident Insurance – Etc
Osteopathy
Water-Supply
Mistaken Identity
Cats And Candy
Obituary Poetry
Cigars And Tobacco
Billiards
The Union Right Or Wrong
An Ideal French Address
Statistics
Galveston Orphan Bazaar
San Francisco Earthquake
Charity And Actors
Russian Republic
Russian Sufferers
Watterson And Twain As Rebels
Robert Fulton Fund
Fulton Day, Jamestown
Lotos Club Dinner In Honor Of Mark Twain
Copyright
In Aid Of The Blind
Dr. Mark Twain, Farmeopath
Missouri University Speech
Business
Carnegie The Benefactor
On Poetry, Veracity, And Suicide
Welcome Home
An Undelivered Speech
Sixty-Seventh Birthday
To The Whitefriars
The Ascot Gold Cup
The Savage Club Dinner
General Miles And The Dog
When In Doubt, Tell The Truth
The Day We Celebrate
Independence Day
Americans And The English
About London
Princeton
The St. Louis Harbor-Boat “Mark Twain”
Seventieth Birthday
From the preface to the English edition of “Mark Twain’s sketches”
This is an occasion peculiarly meet for the digging up of pleasant reminiscences concerning literary folk; therefore I will drop lightly into history myself. Standing here on the shore of the Atlantic and contemplating certain of its largest literary billows, I am reminded of a thing which happened to me thirteen years ago, when I had just succeeded in stirring up a little Nevadian literary puddle myself, whose spume-flakes were beginning to blow thinly California ward. I started an inspection tramp through the southern mines of California. I was callow and conceited, and I resolved to try the virtue of my ‘nom de guerre’.
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“As I said, Mr. Twain, you are the fourth in twenty-four hours – and I’m going to move; I ain’t suited to a littery atmosphere.”
I said to the miner, “Why, my dear sir, these were not the gracious singers to whom we and the world pay loving reverence and homage; these were impostors.”
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