Author:
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Imprint:Garden City, NY : Doubleday, c1961.
Description722 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Note:Curing a cold. - Aurelia's unfortunate young man. - Information for the million. - The killing of Julius Caesar 'localized.' - Lucretia Smith's soldier. - A touching story of George Washington's boyhood. - Advice to little girls. - 'After' Jenkins. - Answers to correspondents. - Mr. Bloke's item. - A page from a Californian almanac. - The scriptural panoramist. - Among the spirits. - Brief biographical skeetch of George Washington. - A complaint about correspondents. - Concerning chambermaids. - Honored as a curiosity. - An inquiry about insurances. - Literature in the dry diggings. - Origin of illustrious men. - The facts concerning the recent resignation. - General Washington's Negro body-servant. - Information wanted. - My late senatorial secretaryship. - An ancient playbill. - Back from 'Yurrup' - The Benton House. - A fine old man. - Guying the guides. - Mental photographs. - Rev. Henry Ward Beecher's farm. - The Turkish bath. - The case of George Fisher. - An entertaining article. - History repeats itself. - John Chinaman in New York. - The judge's 'spirited woman' - The late Benjamin Franklin. - Map of Paris. - My bloody massacre. - A mysterious visit. - Note on 'The Petrified Man' - Post-mortem poetry. - Riley, newspaper columnist. - Running for governor. - To raise poultry. - The undertaker's chat. - The widow's protest. - Wit inspirations of the 'two-year-olds' - About barbers. - A burlesque biography. - The danger of lying in bed. - A fashion item. - First interview with Artemus Ward. - My first literary venture. - A new Beecher church. - Portrait of King William III. - 'Blanketing' the admiral. - A deception. - A genuine Mexican plug. - The great landslide case. - How the author was sold in Newark. - A hundred and ten tin whistles. - Lionizing murderers. - Markiss, king of liars. - Mr. Arkansas. - Nevada nabobs. - What Hank said to Horace Greeley. - When the buffalo climbed a tree. - A curious pleasure excursion. - Rogers. - After-dinner speech. - A couple of poems by Twain and Moore. - An encounter with an interviewer. - Johnny Greer. - The jumping frog. - The office bore. - 'Party cries' in Ireland. - Petition concerning copyright. - The Siamese twins. - Speech at the Scottish banquet in London. - Speech on accident insurance. - The facts concerning the recent carnival of crime in Connecticut. - Letter read at a dinner. - Punch, brothers, punch. - Some rambling notes of an idle excursion. - Speech on the weather. - The Whittier birthday speech. - About magnanimous-incident literature. - O'Shah. - The great revolution in Pitcairn. - Speech on the babies. - American in Europe. - An American party. - Ascending the Riffelberg. - The awful German language. - The great French duel. - The king's encore. - The laborious ant. - My long crawl in the dark. - Nicodemus Dodge. - Skeleton for Black Forest novel. - A telephonic conversation. - Two works of art. - Why Germans wear spectacles. - Young Cholley Adams. - Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims. - Concerning the American language. - Legend of Sagenfeld in Germany. - On the decay of the art of lying. - Paris notes. - The art of inhumation. - Keelboat talk and manners. - Introduction to 'The New Guide of the Conversation in Portuguese and English' - A petition to the Queen of England. - A majestic literary fossil. - About all kinds of ships. - A cure for the blues. - The enemy conquered; or, love triumphant. - Traveling with a reformer. - Private history of the 'Jumping Frog' story. - Fenimore Cooper's literary offenses. - A hell of a hotel at Maryborough. - The Indian crow. - At the appetite cure. - The Austrian Edison keeping school again. - From the 'London Times' of 1904. - My first lie, and how I got out of it. - My boyhood dreams. - Amended obituaries. - Does the race of man love a lord? - Instructions in art. - Italian with grammar. - Italian without a master. - Appendix: The petrified man. - The Dutch Nick massacre.
