From the Book - [first edition]
Two Mark Twain editorials --
Disgraceful persecution of a boy --
Memorable midnight experience --
English as she is taught --
Aix, the paradise of the rheumatics --
At the shrine of St. Wagner --
Marienbad, a health factory --
Switzerland, the cradle of liberty --
In defense of Harriet Shelley --
Mental telegraphy again --
What Paul Bourget thinks of us --
Little note to M. Paul Bourget --
Queen Victoria's jubilee --
Stirring times in Austria --
Diplomatic pay and clothes --
My début as a literary person --
To the person sitting in darkness --
To my missionary critics --
First writing-machines --
Humane word from Satan --
Marjorie Fleming, the wonder child --
Turning-point of my life --
How to make history dates stick --
Scrap of curious history --
As concerns interpreting the deity --
Memorable assassination --
Bible teaching and religious practice --
Cholera epidemic in Hamburg --
Dervish and the offensive stranger --
Dr. Loeb's incredible discovery --
Instructing the soldier --
On speech-making reform --
Samuel Erasmus Moffett --
Skeleton plan of a proposed casting vote party --
Some national stupidities --
Temperance Crusade and woman's rights --
United States of Lynchdom --
Word of encouragement for our blushing exiles --
Letter from the recording angel.