In defense of Harriet Shelley, and other essays

From a photograph taken in 1899
By H. W. Barnett, London

In Defense of
Harriet Shelley
and Other Essays

By
Mark Twain
(Samuel L. Clemens)

Illustrated

Harper & Brothers Publishers
New York and London

Contents
		Page
In Defense of Harriet Shelley		1
Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses		60
Traveling with a Reformer		78
Private History of the "Jumping Frog" Story		100
Mental Telegraphy		111
Mental Telegraphy Again		138
What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us		148
A Little Note to M. Paul Bourget		171
The Invalid's Story		187
Stirring Times in Austria		197
The German Chicago		244
Concerning the Jews		263
About All Kinds of Ships		288
From the "London Times" of 1904		313
A Majestic Literary Fossil		329
At the Appetite Cure		346
Saint Joan of Arc		363
In Memoriam		384
A Biographical Sketch		387

Acknowledgment is hereby made to Harper & Brothers, The Century Company, The Cosmopolitan, and S. S. McClure & Co., for courtesy shown in allowing the reprint in this volume of a number of their articles.

Illustrations



Mark Twain, From A Photograph Taken in 1899		Frontispiece
These Other Smells Seemed to Give It a Better Hold		Facing p. 194
He Eats a Butterfly		Facing p." 360

This work was published before January 1, 1930, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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