University of Iowa Press, 1976 Cloth: 978-0-87745-056-6 | Paper: 978-1-58729-468-6 | eISBN: 978-1-58729-719-9 Library of Congress Classification PS1302.F3 2006 Dewey Decimal Classification 815.4
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Originally published in 1976 and reissued in 2006 after many years out of print, Mark Twain Speaking assembles Twain's lectures, after-dinner speeches, and interviews from 1864 to 1909. Explanatory notes describe occasions, identify personalities, and discuss techniques of Twain's oral craftsmanship. A chronology listing date, place, and title of speech or type of engagement completes the collection.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Paul Fatout taught in the English department at Purdue University for thirty-eight years before retiring in 1965. Among his many works are Mark Twain Speaks for Himself, Indiana Canals, Letters of a Civil War Surgeon, Mark Twain in Virginia City, Mark Twain on the Lecture Circuit, Meadow Lake: Gold Town, Ambrose Bierce: The Devil’s Lexicographer, Canal’s Heyday (Tippecanoe Tales), Artemus Ward among the Mormons, The Twain-Cable Readings in Indiana, Mark Twain’s First Lecture: A Parallel (His Miscellanea), and Mr. Lincoln Goes to Washington. He died in 1982.
REVIEWS
“In his lifetime, Mark Twain was perhaps as renowned for his public speaking as he was for his writing. . . . Since we, unfortunately, have no recordings of what he said, the speeches themselves are invaluable---and Fatout’s book is an incredible collection of what has survived.”---John C. Bird, editor, The Mark Twain Annual
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Introduction
Acknowledgments
Selection of Texts
Abbreviations
1
Presentation Speech
2
Sandwich Islands Lecture
3
Concluding Remarks
4
Address to the Czar
5
Woman—The Pride of Any Profession
6
Pilgrim Life
7
Introductory Remarks
8
The American Vandal Abroad
9
Concluding Remarks
10
The Reliable Contraband
11
Artemus Ward Lecture
12
Roughing It Lecture
13
On Governor James W. Nye
14
Aldine Dinner
15
Savage Club
16
Whitefriars Club
17
Meeting of Americans
18
The Ladies
19
The Guests
20
Introducing the Reverend Charles Kingsley
21
Massachusetts Press Association
22
Curtain Speech
23
Insurance Dinner
24
Curtain Speech
25
Spelling Match
26
Republican Mass Meeting
27
The Weather of New England
28
Curtain Speech
29
Putnam Phalanx
30
Whittier Birthday Dinner
31
Bayard Taylor Dinner
32
Anglo-American Club
33
Stanley Club
34
Stomach Club
35
Introducing General Hawley
36
Army of the Tennessee Reunion
37
The Babies
38
Holmes Breakfast
39
Welcome to General Grant
40
Republican Rally
41
Funeral Oration
42
Papyrus Club
43
Army of the Potomac Reunion
44
De Woman Wid De Gold'n Arm
45
Montreal Dinner
46
New England Society
47
Fréchette Dinner
48
Saturday Morning Club
49
New England Society
50
Introducing George W. Cable
51
On Adam
52
Wheelmen
53
Turncoats
54
Mugwump Rally
55
Mock Oration on the Dead Partisan
56
On Speech-Making Reform
57
Actors Fund Fair
58
Huck Saves Jim
59
The Compositor
Rejected Version of Typothetae Speech
60
Remarks on Copyright
61
Our Children
62
Yankee Smith of Camelot
63
Introducing Henry M. Stanley
64
Stationers Board of Trade
65
An Author's Soldiering
66
Daly's Theatre
67
Army and Navy Club
68
Post-Prandial Oratory
69
Yale Alumni Association
70
Introducing Nye and Riley
71
The Long Clam
72
The Grand Tour—1. The Sandwich Islands
73
Fellowcraft Club
74
The Humorist on the Copyright Question
75
The Christening Yarn
76
Curtain Speech
77
On Foreign Critics
78
National Wholesale Druggists Association
79
Robert A. Pryor Dinner
80
Lotos Club
81
Brander Matthews Dinner
82
Advice
83
Cramp's Shipyard
84
Curtain Speech
85
Morals Lecture
86
Interview
87
His Grandfather's Old Ram
88
Yorick Club
89
Australian Institute of Journalists
90
Savage Club
91
Commemoration Luncheon
92
Punch, Brothers, Punch
93
Interview
94
Die Schrecken der Deutschen Sprache
95
Jubilee of the Hungarian Press
96
Savage Club
97
Authors Club
98
Whitefriars Club
99
New Vagabonds Club
100
The Day We Celebrate
101
Remarks on Copyright
102
Literature
103
The Drama
104
Reading Room Opening
105
Travelogue
106
Galveston Orphans Bazaar
107
Woman's Press Club
108
Lotos Club
109
New York Press Club
110
Society of American Authors
111
The Disappearance of Literature
112
Public Education Association
113
Our City
114
Introducing Winston S. Churchill
115
Causes of Our Present Municipal Corruption
116
Hebrew Technical School for Girls
117
University Settlement Society
118
Lincoln Celebration
119
Remarks on Osteopathy
120
New York Senate
121
Training That Pays
122
Lotos Club
123
Poughkeepsie Eastman Club
124
University Club
125
Missouri Society
126
Speech-Making Experiment
127
Edmund Burke on Croker and Tammany
128
Two Political Speeches
129
Mock Eulogy of Tammany
130
Good Citizenship Association
131
Lotos Club
132
Scotch Humor
133
Yale Alumni Association
134
Society of Medical Jurisprudence
135
Hannibal High School Graduation
136
University of Missouri Commencement
137
Harbor Boat Christening
138
Eugene Field Commemoration
139
Speech on Art
140
Lotos Club
141
Sixty-seventh Birthday Dinner
142
Seventieth Birthday Dinner
143
Benefit Matinee for Russian Sufferers
144
Society of Illustrators
145
Tuskegee Institute Meeting
146
Manhattan Dickens Fellowship
147
Ends of the Earth Club
148
Introducing Dr. Henry Van Dyke
149
West Side Branch Y.M.C.A.
150
Barnard College Reception
151
Freundschaft Society
152
New York State Association for the Blind
153
Women's University Club Reception
154
Club A Dinner
155
Robert Fulton Monument Association
156
San Francisco Relief Meeting
157
Billiards Exhibition
158
Associated Press
159
Concert Debut of Clara Clemens
160
Interview
161
Remarks on Copyright
162
Burlesque Temperance Lecture
163
Reminiscences of Longfellow and Others
164
Curtain Speech
165
Actors Fund Fair
166
Government House, Annapolis
167
Interview
168
Royal Garden Party
169
Our Guest
170
Lord Mayor's Dinner
171
The Day We Celebrate
172
Savage Club
173
Lord Mayor's Dinner, Liverpool
174
Interview
175
Fulton Day
176
Bishop Speech
177
Curtain Speech
178
Associated Societies of Engineers
179
Pleiades Club
180
Lotos Club
181
Pilgrims Club
182
Garrison Children, Bermuda
183
Interview
184
Humorists and Cartoonists
185
Curtain Speech
186
C.C.N.Y. Dedication
187
Associated Alumni of C.C.N.Y.
188
American Booksellers Association
189
Queen Victoria—an American Tribute
190
Opening of the Mark Twain Library
191
New York Postgraduate Medical School
192
Lotos Club
193
Henry H. Rogers Dinner
194
William Travers Jerome Dinner
195
Misses Tewksbury's School Graduation
Mark Twain Speaking: A Chronology
Index
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