Mark Twain's Speeches

Contents

• Introduction

1. The Story of a Speech
2. Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims
3. Compliments and Degrees
4. Books, Authors, and Hats
5. Dedication Speech
6. Die Schrecken Der Deutschen Sprache (The Horrors of the German Language)
7. German for the Hungarians
8. A New German Word
9. Unconscious Plagiarism
10. The Weather
11. The Babies
12. Our Children and Great Discoveries
13. Educating Theater-Goers
14. The Educational Theater
15. Poets as Policemen
16. Pudd'nhead Wilson Dramatized
17. Daly Theater
18. The Dress of Civilized Woman
19. Dress Reform and Copyright
20. College Girls
21. Girls
22. The Ladies
23. Woman's Press Club
24. Votes for Women
25. Woman -- an Opinion
26. Advice to Girls
27. Taxes and Morals
28. Tammany and Croker
29. Municipal Corruption
30. Municipal Government
31. China and the Philippines
32. Theoretical and Practical Morals
33. Layman's Sermon
34. University Settlement Society
35. Public Education Association
36. Education and Citizenship
37. Courage
38. The Dinner to Mr. Choate
39. On Stanley and Livingstone
40. Henry M. Stanley
41. Dinner to Mr. Jerome
42. Henry Irving
43. Dinner to Hamilton W. Mabie
44. Introducing Nye and Riley
45. Dinner to Whitelaw Reid
46. Rogers and Railroads
47. The Old-Fashioned Printer
48. Society of American Authors
49. Reading-Room Opening
50. Literature
51. Disappearance of Literature
52. The New York Press Club Dinner
53. The Alphabet and Simplified Spelling
54. Spelling and Pictures
55. Books and Burglars
56. Authors' Club
57. Booksellers
58. Mark Twain's First Appearance
59. Morals and Memory
60. Queen Victoria
61. Joan of Arc
62. Accident Insurance -- Etc.
63. Osteopathy
64. Water-Supply
65. Mistaken Identity
66. Cats and Candy
67. Obituary Poetry
68. Cigars and Tobacco
69. Billiards
70. The Union Right or Wrong?
71. An Ideal French Address
72. Statistics
73. Galveston Orphan Bazaar
74. San Francisco Earthquake
75. Charity and Actors
76. Russian Republic
77. Russian Sufferers
78. Watterson and Twain as Rebels
79. Robert Fulton Fund
80. Fulton Day, Jamestown
81. Lotos Club Dinner in Honor of Mark Twain
82. Copyright
83. In Aid of the Blind
84. Dr. Mark Twain, Farmeopath
85. Missouri University Speech
86. Business
87. Carnegie the Benefactor
88. On Poetry, Veracity, and Suicide
89. Welcome Home
90. An Undelivered Speech
91. Sixty-Seventh Birthday
92. To the Whitefriars
93. The Ascot Gold Cup
94. The Savage Club Dinner
95. General Miles and the Dog
96. When in Doubt, Tell the Truth
97. The Day We Celebrate
98. Independence Day
99. Americans and the English
100. About London
101. Princeton
102. The St. Louis Harbor-Boat "Mark Twain"
103. Seventieth Birthday