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]