Matthews's Biographical Criticism of Mark Twain, in the Introduction to The Innocents Abroad.
Phelps's Essays on Modern Novelists. (Mark Twain; excellent.)
Henderson's Mark Twain, in Harpers Magazine, May, 1909.
Howells's My Mark Twain.
SUGGESTED READINGS
Lincoln.—The Gettysburg Address, part of the Second Inaugural Address.
Harte.—Tennessee's Partner, and How Santa Claus came to Simpson's Bar. Harte's two greatest stories, The Luck of Roaring Camp and The Outcasts of Poker Flat, should be read in mature years. These stories may all be found in the single volume, entitled The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Stories. (Riverside Aldine Press Series.)
Field.—Little Boy Blue, The Duel, Krinken, Wynken, Blynken, and
Nod, The Rock-a-By Lady. These poems may all be found in Burt and
Cable's The Eugene Field Book.
Riley.—When the Frost is on the Punkin, The Clover, The First Bluebird, Ike Walton's Prayer, A Life Lesson, Away, Griggsby's Station, Little Mahala Ashcraft, Our Hired Girl, Little Orphant Annie. These poems may be found in the three volumes, entitled Neighborly Poems, Afterwhiles, and Rhymes of Childhood.
Mark Twain.—Life on the Mississippi, Chaps. VIII., IX., XIII. Roughing It, Chap. II. If the first two chapters of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn are read, the time will probably be found to finish the books. For specimens of his humor at its best, read Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar, printed at the beginning of the twenty-one chapters of Pudd'nhead Wilson. His humor depending on incongruity is well shown in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court. The Prince and the Pauper is a fascinating story of sixteenth-century England.