Chapter I: Front Matter

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AND I ROSE TO RECEIVE MY GUEST, AND BRACED MYSELF FOR THE
THUNDERCRASH AND THE BRIMSTONE STENCH WHICH
SHOULD ANNOUNCE HIS ARRIVAL
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(_See p. 326_)

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By

MARK TWAIN

WITH AN APPRECIATION BY
BRANDER MATTHEWS
AND AN INTRODUCTION BY
ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE

HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK AND LONDON

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Copyright, 1923
By The Mark Twain Company
Printed in the U.S.A.

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_First Edition_
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CONTENTS

CHAP. PAGE AN APPRECIATION vii INTRODUCTION xxxi I. A MEMORABLE MIDNIGHT EXPERIENCE 1 II. TWO MARK TWAIN EDITORIALS 14 III. THE TEMPERANCE CRUSADE AND WOMAN’S RIGHTS 24 IV. O’SHAH 31 V. A WONDERFUL PAIR OF SLIPPERS 87 VI. AIX, THE PARADISE OF THE RHEUMATICS 94 VII. MARIENBAD--A HEALTH FACTORY 113 VIII. DOWN THE RHÔNE 129 IX. THE LOST NAPOLEON 169 X. SOME NATIONAL STUPIDITIES 175 XI. THE CHOLERA EPIDEMIC IN HAMBURG 186 XII. QUEEN VICTORIA’S JUBILEE 193 XIII. LETTERS TO SATAN 211 XIV. A WORD OF ENCOURAGEMENT FOR OUR BLUSHING EXILES 221 XV. DUELING 225 XVI. SKELETON PLAN OF A PROPOSED CASTING VOTE PARTY 233 XVII. THE UNITED STATES OF LYNCHERDOM 239 XVIII. TO THE PERSON SITTING IN DARKNESS 250 XIX. TO MY MISSIONARY CRITICS 273 XX. THOMAS BRACKETT REED 297 XXI. THE FINISHED BOOK 299 XXII. AS REGARDS PATRIOTISM 301 XXIII. DR. LOEB’S INCREDIBLE DISCOVERY 304 XXIV. THE DERVISH AND THE OFFENSIVE STRANGER 310 XXV. INSTRUCTIONS IN ART 315 XXVI. SOLD TO SATAN 326 XXVII. THAT DAY IN EDEN 339 XXVIII. EVE SPEAKS 347 XXIX. SAMUEL ERASMUS MOFFETT 351 XXX. THE NEW PLANET 355 XXXI. MARJORIE FLEMING, THE WONDER CHILD 358 XXXII. ADAM’S SOLILOQUY 377 XXXIII. BIBLE TEACHING AND RELIGIOUS PRACTICE 387 XXXIV. THE WAR PRAYER 394 XXXV. CORN-PONE OPINIONS 399

AN APPRECIATION

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(This “Biographical Criticism” was prepared by Prof. Brander Matthews, as an introduction to the Uniform Edition of Mark Twain’s Works, published in 1899).

It is a common delusion of those who discuss contemporary literature that there is such an entity as the “reading public,” possessed of a certain uniformity of taste. There is not one public; there are many publics--as many, in fact, as there are different kinds of taste; and the extent of an author’s popularity is in proportion to the number of these separate publics he may chance to please. Scott, for example, appealed not only to those who relished romance and enjoyed excitement, but also to those who appreciated his honest portrayal of sturdy characters. Thackeray is preferred by ambitious youth who are insidiously flattered by his tacit compliments to their knowledge of the world, by the disenchanted who cannot help seeing the petty meannesses of society, and by the less sophisticated in whom sentiment has not gone to seed in sentimentality. Dickens in his own day bid for the approval of those who liked broad caricature (and were therefore pleased with Stiggins and Chadband), of those who fed greedily on plentiful pathos (and were therefore delighted with the deathbeds of Smike and Paul Dombey and Little Nell) and also of those who asked for unexpected adventure (and were therefore glad to disentangle the melodramatic intrigues of Ralph Nickleby).

In like manner the American author who has chosen to call himself Mark Twain has attained to an immense popularity because the qualities he possesses in a high degree appeal to so many and so widely varied publics--first of all, no doubt, to the public that revels in hearty and robust fun, but also to the public which is glad to be swept along by the full current of adventure, which is sincerely touched by manly pathos, which is satisfied by vigorous and exact portrayal of character, and which respects shrewdness and wisdom and sanity and a healthy hatred of pretense and affectation and sham. Perhaps no one book of Mark Twain’s--with the possible exception of _Huckleberry Finn_--is equally a favorite with all his readers; and perhaps some of his best characteristics are absent from his earlier books or but doubtfully latent in them. Mark Twain is many sided; and he has ripened in knowledge and in power since he first attracted attention as a wild Western funny man. As he has grown older he has reflected more; he has both broadened and deepened. The writer of “comic copy” for a mining-camp newspaper has developed into a liberal humorist, handling life seriously and making his readers think as he makes them laugh, until to-day Mark Twain has perhaps the largest audience of any author now using the English language. To trace the stages of this evolution and to count the steps whereby the sagebrush reporter has risen to the rank of a writer of world-wide celebrity, is as interesting as it is instructive.