Europe and Elsewhere

About this eBook

Author

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910

Title

Europe and elsewhere

Original Publication

United States: Harper & Brothers, Publishers,1923.

Credits

KD Weeks, Emmanuel Ackerman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature

Subject

Satire

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 68604

Release Date

July 24, 2022

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.EUROPE AND ELSEWHERE
2. 2.CONTENTS
3. 3.AN APPRECIATION — I — II — III — IV — V
4. 4.INTRODUCTION
5. 5.A MEMORABLE MIDNIGHT EXPERIENCE (1872)
6. 6.TWO MARK TWAIN EDITORIALS — I “SALUTATORY” — II A TRIBUTE TO ANSON BURLINGAME
7. 7.THE TEMPERANCE CRUSADE AND WOMAN’S RIGHTS (1873)
8. 8.O’SHAH — I THE ARRIVAL IN ENGLAND — THE SHAH’S QUARTERS — II MARK TWAIN EXECUTES HIS CONTRACT AND DELIVERS THE SHAH IN LONDON — SOME PERSIAN FINERY — “IMPRESSING” A PERSIAN GENERAL — A PICTURESQUE NAVAL SPECTACLE — THE NAVAL SALUTE — THE THIRTY-FOUR-TON GUNS SPEAK — THE GRAND SPECTACULAR CLIMAX — SPEAKING BY THE CARDS — THE SPECTACLE — THE SHAH “IMPRESSED” AT LAST — III THE SHAH AS A SOCIAL STAR — AT THE GUILDHALL — THE TWO CORRALS — THE LUNATIC ASYLUM IS BLESSED WITH A GLIMPSE — ROYALTY ARRIVES — WHAT THE ASYLUM SAW — A NATION DEMENTED — IV MARK TWAIN HOOKS THE PERSIAN OUT OF THE ENGLISH CHANNEL — A SMALL PRIVATE NAUTICAL RACE — OLD HISTORICAL MEN-OF-WAR — THE WORLD’S GREATEST NAVY ON VIEW — V MARK TWAIN GIVES THE ROYAL PERSIAN A “SEND-OFF” — GOSSIP ABOUT THE SHAH — THE LESSON OF HIS JOURNEY — THE PETITION — THE FAT “CONCESSION” — DEPARTURE OF THE IMPERIAL CIRCUS.
9. 9.A WONDERFUL PAIR OF SLIPPERS
10. 10.AIX, THE PARADISE OF THE RHEUMATICS (Contributed to the New York Sun , 1891)
11. 11.DOWN THE RHÔNE (1891)
12. 12.THE LOST NAPOLEON
13. 13.SOME NATIONAL STUPIDITIES (1891-1892)
14. 14.THE CHOLERA EPIDEMIC IN HAMBURG (1892)
15. 15.QUEEN VICTORIA’S JUBILEE (1897)
16. 16.LETTERS TO SATAN (1897) — SWISS GLIMPSES
17. 17.A WORD OF ENCOURAGEMENT FOR OUR
18. 18.DUELING (Vienna, Austria, 1898)
19. 19.SKELETON PLAN OF A PROPOSED CASTING VOTE PARTY (1901)
20. 20.THE UNITED STATES OF LYNCHERDOM (1901)
21. 21.TO THE PERSON SITTING IN DARKNESS ( North American Review , 1901)
22. 22.TO MY MISSIONARY CRITICS ( North American Review , 1901)
23. 23.THOMAS BRACKETT REED
24. 24.THE FINISHED BOOK (On Finishing Joan of Arc )
25. 25.AS REGARDS PATRIOTISM (About 1900)
26. 26.DR. LOEB’S INCREDIBLE DISCOVERY
27. 27.THE DERVISH AND THE OFFENSIVE STRANGER — VOICES OUT OF UTAH
28. 28.INSTRUCTIONS IN ART (With Illustrations by the Author)
29. 29.SOLD TO SATAN (1904)
30. 30.THAT DAY IN EDEN (Passage from Satan’s Diary)
31. 31.EVE SPEAKS
32. 32.SAMUEL ERASMUS MOFFETT AUGUST 16, 1908
33. 33.THE NEW PLANET
34. 34.MARJORIE FLEMING, THE WONDER CHILD
35. 35.ADAM’S SOLILOQUY
36. 36.BIBLE TEACHING AND RELIGIOUS PRACTICE
37. 37.THE WAR PRAYER (Dictated 1904-05)
38. 38.CORN-PONE OPINIONS (Written in 1900)

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