Index of Titles

About Barbers, 524

About Magnanimous-Incident Literature, 703

About Smells, 365

Advice for Good Little Boys, 163

Advice for Good Little Girls, 164

Advice to Youth, 801

“After” Jenkins, see The Pioneers’ Ball

All About the Fashions, 28

American Authors and British Pirates, 927

Among the Spirits, see The Spiritual Séance

Answers to Correspondents, 121

An Appeal Against Injudicious Swearing, 947

The Approaching Epidemic, 447

The Art of Authorship, see Reply to the Editor of “The Art of Authorship”

Aurelia’s Unfortunate Young Man, see Whereas

An Awful- - - -Terrible Medieval Romance, 332

The Babies. As They Comfort Us in Our Sorrows, Let Us Not Forget Them in Our Festivities, 727

Back from “Yurrup,” 329

Barnum’s First Speech in Congress, 210

The Benefit of Judicious Training, 773

Blabbing Government Secrets!, 9

A Bloody Massacre Near Carson, 57

A Boston Girl, see Reply to a Boston Girl

A Brace of Brief Lectures on Science, 528

Breaking It Gently, 398

Cannibalism in the Cars, 269

The Canvasser’s Tale, 667

The Captain’s Story, 683

A Cat Tale, 763

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, see Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog

The Character of Man, 854

The Christening Yarn, 938

The Christmas Fireside, 191

City of Hartford, see Misplaced Confidence

Colloquy Between a Slum Child and a Moral Mentor, 253

Concerning Gen. Grant’s Intentions, 282

Concerning the American Language, 830

Consistency, 909

Conversation, as it Was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors, see [Date, 1601.] Conversation, as it Was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors

A Couple of Sad Experiences, 388

Curing a Cold, see How to Cure a Cold

Curious Dream, 356

A Curious Pleasure Excursion, 573

The Curious Republic of Gondour, 634

The Dandy Frightening the Squatter, 1

The Danger of Lying in Bed, 510

[Date, 1601.] Conversation, as it Was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors, 661

A Day at Niagara, 300

Dinner Speech: General Grant’s Grammar, 906

Dinner Speech in Montreal, 776

Dinner Speech, see Farewell Banquet for Bayard Taylor

Dinner Speech, see My Military History

Disgraceful Persecution of a Boy, 379

Dogberry in Washington, 495

Doings in Nevada, 67

Domestic Missionaries Wanted, 432

Down Among the Dead Men, see The Spiritual Séance

Editorial Agility, 7

Edward Mills and George Benton: A Tale, 747

An Encounter with an Interviewer, 583

Etiquette, 786

The Evidence in the Case of Smith vs. Jones, 83

Experience of the McWilliamses with Membranous Croup, 604

The Facts Concerning the Late Senatorial Secretaryship, see My Late Senatorial Secretaryship

The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut, 644

The Facts Concerning the Recent Resignation, 240

The Facts in the Case of George Fisher, Deceased, 500

The Facts in the Case of the Great Beef Contract, 367

The Facts in the Great Land-Slide Case, 345

Farewell Banquet for Bayard Taylor, 700

Female Suffrage: Views of Mark Twain, 214

Female Suffrage, 224

A Fine Old Man, 307

First Interview With Artemus Ward, see A Reminiscence of Artemus Ward

Foster’s Case, 549

Fourth of July Speech in London, 556

Francis Lightfoot Lee, 677

From an Unfinished Burlesque of Books on Etiquette, see Etiquette

A General Reply, 484

General Washington’s Negro Body-Servant, 249

Getting My Fortune Told, 325

Ghost Life on the Mississippi, 14

Goldsmith’s Friend Abroad Again, 455

The Great Prize Fight, 49

The Great Revolution in Pitcairn, 710

Historical Exhibition—A No. 1 Ruse, 3

How I Edited an Agricultural Paper Once, 412

How I Escaped Being Killed in a Duel, 543

How to Cure a Cold, 37

Important Correspondence, 113

The Indignity Put upon the Remains of George Holland by the Rev. Mr. Sabine, 517

Information for the Millions, see Washoe.—“Information Wanted”

Information Wanted, 238

“Ingomar” Over the Mountains, 59

The Invalid’s Story, 688

Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog, 171

Jim Wolf and the Tom-Cats, 235

John Chinaman in New York, 440

Journalism in Tennessee, 308

The Judge’s “Spirited Woman,” 396

The Jumping Frog, see Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog

The “Jumping Frog.” In English. Then in French. Then clawed back into a civilized language once more, by patient, unremunerated toil, 588

Just “One More Unfortunate,” 166

The Killing of Julius Cæsar “Localized,” 102

The Ladies, 559

The Last Words of Great Men, 315

The Late Benjamin Franklin, 425

The Legend of the Capitoline Venus, 319

Letter from Carson City, 20

Letter from Mark Twain, see Letter from Steamboat Springs

Letter from Mark Twain, see Miss Clapp’s School

Letter from Steamboat Springs, 32

Letter from the Recording Angel, 900

License of the Press, 551

The Lick House Ball, 43

Life As I Find It, see Poor Little Stephen Girard

Lionizing Murderers, see Getting My Fortune Told

A Literary Nightmare, 639

Love’s Bakery, see Whereas

Lucretia Smith’s Soldier, 108

Macdougall vs. Maguire, 189

The McWilliamses and the Burglar Alarm, 837

Map of Paris, 471

Mark Twain Aggrieved, see Why a Statue of Liberty When We Have Adam!

Mark Twain and Postal Matters, see Postal Matters

Mark Twain as a Presidential Candidate, see A Presidential Candidate

Mark Twain—More of Him, see All About the Fashions

“Mark Twain” on the Launch of the Steamer “Capital,” 178

Mark Twain on the New Postal Barbarism, see The New Postal Barbarism

Mark Twain’s Map of Paris, see Map of Paris

A Mediæval Romance, see An Awful- - - -Terrible Medieval Romance

A Memory, 428

“Millions In It,” 761

Misplaced Confidence, 383

Miss Clapp’s School, 62

Mock Oration on the Dead Partisan, 852

Mr. Beecher and the Clergy, 291

Mrs. McWilliams and the Lightning, 753

My Bloody Massacre, see A Couple of Sad Experiences

My Late Senatorial Secretaryship, 257

My Military History, 679

My Watch—An Instructive Little Tale, 497

A Mysterious Visit, 340

A New Biography of Washington, 205

The New Crime, 350

The New Dynasty, 883

The New Postal Barbarism, 730

The Noble Red Man, 442

Nursery Rhyme, see Macdougall vs. Maguire

Official Physic, 228

The Oldest Inhabitant—The Weather of New England, 673

On Adam, 844

On Foreign Critics, 942

On Speech-Making Reform, 859

On the Decay of the Art of Lying, 824

One of Mankind’s Bores, 514

Open Letter to Com. Vanderbilt, 285

Our Children, 891

Our Precious Lunatic, 384

“Party Cries” in Ireland, 633

Personal Habits of the Siamese Twins, 296

Petition Concerning Copyright, 632

A Petition to the Queen of England, 922

Petrified Man, 19

The Pioneers’ Ball, 184

Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims, 781

Policemen’s Presents, 195

Political Economy, 434

Poor Little Stephen Girard, 547

Postal Matters, 733

Post-Mortem Poetry, 399

Post-Prandial Oratory, 917

A Presidential Candidate, 725

Private Habits of Horace Greeley, 278

The Private History of a Campaign that Failed, 863

Punch, Brothers, Punch, see A Literary Nightmare

Putnam Phalanx Speech, see My Military History

Real Estate versus Imaginary Possessions, Poetically Considered, 168

Reflections on the Sabbath, 208

A Reminiscence of Artemus Ward, 231

A Reminiscence of the Back Settlements, 481

Reply to a Boston Girl, 742

Reply to the Editor of “The Art of Authorship,” 945

Report to the Buffalo Female Academy, 408

The Revised Catechism, 539

A Rich Epigram, 188

Riley — Newspaper Correspondent, 477

River Intelligence, 11

Rogers, 568

A Royal Compliment, 449

Running for Governor, 490

Science vs. Luck, 452

The Scriptural Panoramist, see “Mark Twain” on the Launch of the Steamer “Capital”

The Secret of Dr. Livingstone’s Continued Voluntary Exile, 541

The Siamese Twins, see Personal Habits of the Siamese Twins

Some Learned Fables for Good Old Boys and Girls, 611

Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion, see The Captain’s Story and The Invalid’s Story

Some Thoughts on the Science of Onanism, 722

Speech at the Scottish Banquet at London, see The Ladies

Speech on the Babies, see The Babies

Speech on the Weather, see The Oldest Inhabitant—The Weather of New England

The Spiritual Séance, 199

The Stolen White Elephant, 804

The Story of Mamie Grant, the Child-Missionary, 262

The Story of the Bad Little Boy Who Didn’t Come to Grief, see The Christmas Fireside

The Story of the Good Little Boy Who Did Not Prosper, 374

A Substitute for Rulloff, 522

Taming the Bicycle, 892

A Telephonic Conversation, 738

The Temperance Crusade and Women’s Rights, see The Temperance Insurrection

The Temperance Insurrection, 563

Those Annual Bills, 562

Those Blasted Children, 72

Though Dead Yet Speaketh, see A Reminiscence of Artemus Ward

To Walt Whitman, 940

The Tone-Imparting Committee, 507

A Touching Story of George Washington’s Boyhood, 97

The “Tournament” in A.D. 1870, 418

A True Story, Repeated Word for Word as I Heard It, 578

Turncoats, 849

Unburlesquable Things, 421

Uncle Lige, 186

The Undertaker’s Chat, see A Reminiscence of the Back Settlements

A Visit to Niagara, see A Day at Niagara

Washoe.—“Information Wanted,” 78

What Have the Police Been Doing?, 196

Whereas, 91

Whittier Birthday Speech, 695

Why a Statue of Liberty When We Have Adam!, 847

The Widow’s Protest, 407

Wit-Inspirations of the “Two-Year-Olds,” 403

Woman—an Opinion, 247

Woman—God Bless Her, 834

Yale College Speech, 936

Ye Sentimental Law Student, 25