[34] “Mark Twain, a Biography,” by Albert Bigelow Paine. 3 vols. 1912.
[35] See his essay “How to Tell a Story” in “The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg,” pp. 225–230.
[36] James Russell Lowell, “Ode on Agassiz.”
[37] See chap. ii, “His Life at College,” in W. B. Parker’s Life.
[38] See “American Neglect of American Literature” by Percy H. Boynton. Nation (1916), Vol. CII, pp. 478–480.
[39] In the “Sketch Book” Washington Irving concludes “Rural Life in England” with a poem by the Reverend Rann Kennedy, A.M., a great-uncle of the dramatist.
Transcriber’s Note
Corrections have been made where it is obvious a printer’s error. For instance, on p. 3, the reference to the execution of “Charles II” in 1649 is an error (it was Charles I), but it is not at all clearly a printer’s fault, and is merely noted here.
The following issues and their resolutions are noted here:
| p. 3 | Charles II | sic. Charles I. |
| p. 34 | D[ai/ia]ry | Transposed. |
| p. 58 | (especially chap. ) | sic. Missing. |
| p. 231 | have all [be enhoused/been housed] | Corrected. |
| p. 233 | “The Music Grinders,[”] “The Comet,” | Added. |
| p. 264 | philos[o]phical | Added. |
| p. 296 | Heart | Added. |
| p. 308 | Calv[a/i]nism | Corrected. |
| p. 331 | often [“/‘]Destiny,[”/’] | Corrected |
| p. 439 | Augustus Thomas (1859- [)] | Added. |
| p. 453 | personal a[c]quaintance | Added. |
| p. 460 | to any woman in [in] any of Moody’s poems | Removed. |
| p. 472 | U[n]usually | Added. |
| p. 492 | the organ of ‘japonicadom,[”/’] | Corrected. |