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Mark Twain's Speeches /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 (Author)
Corporate Author: Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1910.
Series:The writings of Mark Twain
Subjects:
Twain, Mark, > 1835-1910.
Speeches, addresses, etc., American.
Discours américains.
Twain, Mark, > 1835-1910
Address
speeches (documents)
Speeches.
Discours.
Table of Contents:
  • The story of a speech
  • Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims
  • Compliments and degrees
  • Books, authors, and hats
  • Dedication speech
  • Die Schrecken der deutschen Sprache
  • The horrors of the German language
  • German for the Hungarians
  • A new German word
  • Unconscious plagiarism
  • The weather
  • The babies
  • Our children and great discoveries
  • Educating theatre-goers
  • The educational theatre
  • Poets as policemen
  • Pudd'nhead Wilson dramatized
  • Daly Theatre
  • The dress of civilized woman
  • Dress reform and copyright
  • College girls
  • Girls
  • The ladies
  • Woman's press club
  • Votes for women
  • Woman, an opinion
  • Advice to girls
  • Taxes and morals
  • Tammany and Croker
  • Municipal corruption
  • Municipal government
  • China and the Philippines
  • Theoretical and practical morals
  • Layman's sermon
  • University Settlement Society
  • Public Education Association
  • Education and citizenship
  • Courage
  • The dinner to Mr. Choate
  • On Stanley and Livingstone
  • Henry M. Stanley
  • Dinner to Mr. Jerome
  • Henry Irving
  • Dinner to Hamilton W. Mabie
  • Introducing Nye and Riley
  • Dinner to Whitelaw Reid
  • Rogers and railroads
  • The old-fashioned printer
  • Society of American Authors
  • Reading-room opening
  • Literature
  • Disappearance of literature
  • The New York Press Club dinner
  • The alphabet and simplified spelling
  • Spelling and pictures
  • Books and burglars
  • Authors' Club
  • Booksellers
  • "Mark Twain's first appearance"
  • Morals and memory
  • Queen Victoria
  • Joan of Arc
  • Accident insurance, etc.
  • Osteopathy
  • Water-supply
  • Mistaken identity
  • Cats and candy
  • Obituary poetry
  • Cigars and tobacco
  • Billiards
  • The Union right or wrong?
  • An ideal French address
  • Statistics
  • Galveston orphan bazaar
  • San Francisco earthquake
  • Charity and actors
  • Russian republic
  • Russian sufferers
  • Watterson and Twain as rebels
  • Robert Fulton fund
  • Fulton Day, Jamestown
  • Lotos Club dinner in honor of Mark Twain
  • Copyright
  • In aid of the blind
  • Dr. Mark Twain, farmeopath
  • Missouri University speech
  • Business
  • Carnegie the benefactor
  • On poetry, veracity, and suicide
  • Welcome home
  • An undelivered speech
  • Sixty-seventh birthday
  • To the Whitefriars
  • The Ascot gold cup
  • The Savage Club dinner
  • General Miles and the dog
  • When in doubt, tell the truth
  • The day we celebrate
  • Independence day
  • Americans and the English
  • About London
  • Princeton
  • The St. Louis harbor-boat "Mark Twain"
  • Seventieth birthday.