 XXVII by Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to the New York Times. Berlin, August 20, by Telegraph to Clifton, Ireland, then spy wireless. An enigmatic autograph by Mark Twain has remained undiscovered in a little Swiss hamlet for the last thirteen years," says Ernest Caudadel of Pittsburgh, who has arrived from Switzerland and is at the Hotel Adlon. In 1897 Mark Twain was a visitor at the cottage of an honest Swiss peasant, Alois Deinen, in Böleg, near Lucerne. In order to avoid publicity and the hue and cry of enterprising journalists, the distinguished author resolutely refused to inscribe his name in the village register. The villagers, who at first regarded Mr. Clemens with suspicion, gradually became reconciled. They insisted on his leaving a memento behind. With characteristic modesty he hesitated, and then reluctantly turning over the empty pages until the last one in the book wrote, Please do not forget this important truth. Habit is habit, and is not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down the stairs. At the time, September 1897, the particular connection of the sentence with anything that took place in Mr. Clemens's sojourn still puzzles Deinben, who has refused all offers to part with the treasure. End of Section 26 August 21, 1910, Mark Twain's Autograph, read by John Greenman. Section 27 of Mark Twain in the New York Times, Part 6, 1910 through 1919. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain read by John Greenman. October 8, 1910. Mr. Houses, Mark Twain. A book that throws interesting side-lights on a many-yeared and memorable friendship. By H. W. Boynton. Half of this book is made up of an estimate of Mark Twain based upon Mr. Houses' personal acquaintance with him, an acquaintance of forty odd years, and an intimacy almost as long. The other half, or nearly that, is filled with a collection of reviews and criticisms by Mr. Houses, ranging from the publication of The Innocence Abroad to Joan of Arc and after. Mr. Houses possesses another body of material in connection with Clemens, which he does not choose to make use of here, even by way of the most meager quotation. This is a long series of letters to himself, amounting, as he reckons, to some fifteen hundred pages in all. They will, no doubt, some day be published, he says. We suspect that he himself lacks the courage to deal with these memorials of friendship as literary material. The present book we should have liked as well if the little memoir had been allowed to stand by itself. The republished reviews have a different sort of interest. They have undergone no revision or change and, as here printed in the order of their original publication, make up a commentary upon their author as well as upon his theme. As Mr. Houses notes, they begin rather stiffly, pedantically, and patronizingly, but they grow suppler, wiser, and more diffident as they go on. This is the normal evolution of manner for the professional critic who begins young, but these criticisms register a change in more than manner. The writer's attitude toward Mark Twain gradually changes from one of good-humored recognition of an entertaining humorist to one of strong admiration for a force in modern letters. The innocence abroad is, according to the first of the reviews, Mr. Clemens's very amusing book. Its author is, worthy of the company of the best, humorists, that have come out of California. Tom Sawyer, six years later, is a book full of entertaining character and the greatest artistic sincerity. In 1882 Mark Twain not only transcends all other American humorists in the universal qualities, but is an artist of uncommon power. Some twenty years later Mr. Houses declares him, not only the greatest living humorist, but incomparably the greatest and without a rival since Cervantes and Shakespeare, unless it be that eternal Jew, Heinrich Heine, who of all the humorists is the least like him. And now, after almost another decade, he perceives that the man Clemens possessed the depths of a nature whose tragical seriousness broke in the laughter which the unwise took for the whole of him. Emerson, long long ago, Lowell, Holmes, I knew them all and all the rest of our sages, poets, seers, critics, humorists, they were like one another and like other literary men. But Clemens was soul, incomparable, the Lincoln of our literature. So with this large tribute closes Mr. Houses hundred pages of personal reminiscence and estimate. During the last ten years of his life Mark Twain received a continually wider acknowledgement of the dignity of his work. The funny man of the seventies and eighties held in delight by the man in the street, but regarded at best with amused indulgence by the authorities, has become a great public figure. The honours conferred upon him by that most conservative of bodies, the University of Oxford, merely stood for a general tribute. Authorities have not been lacking to proclaim him not only the greatest of American humorous but the greatest of American authors in any kind. This is going too far. The pendulum it seems is bound to swing back and find its steady and permanent beat. But Mark Twain's interest as a human figure does not depend upon the literary rank that may be disposed to yield him. Mr. Houses' reminiscences do much towards setting that figure before us in the flesh. His appalling frankness, his profanity, his Elizabethan breadth of parlance, his extraordinary physique made more striking by a keen feeling for costume, which the severity of our modern tailoring forbids men, all these traits are forth vividly, and the writer's tributes of personal affection, his account of their early alliance and of the meetings in later years between the two old and aging friends, have the value of an intimate and perfectly frank testimony to the lovableness of the great joker. Mr. Houses is as incapable as Mark Twain himself of whitewashing the subject of his study. He makes some admissions as to character and habit which the mere eulogist would be careful to avoid. But it is clear enough that there was no serious fault in that robust life to be concealed. The worst charge that can be brought against him was an incurable boyishness. He was a youth to the end of his days, says Mr. Houses, the heart of a boy with the head of a sage, the heart of a good boy or a bad boy, but a willful boy and willfulest to show himself out at every time for just the boy he was. Chapter 27 October 8, 1910 Mr. Houses, Mark Twain Red by John Greenman October 27, 1910 Mark Twain left daughter $611,136, fifty shares of the Mark Twain company, which owns all his copyrights, valued at $200,000. Real estate worth $70,000. His library set down at $2,000, author made all his fortune after his reverses of fifteen years ago. Special to the New York Times, Reading, Connecticut October 26. The inventory of Mark Twain's estate, returned by the appraisers, Albert Bigelopane and Harry A. Launsbury, to the probate court for the district of Reading, gives a total of $611,136, of which $70,000 represents the value of his home Stormfield and the cottage known as the Lobster Pot, while $511,136 is personal property. The sole heir is his only surviving child, Mrs. Asip Kaprilevich, the wife of the Russian pianist. The copyright values of his writings are grouped in the inventory and the assets of the Mark Twain company, incorporated a few years before his death, to which all the copyrights were assigned. His fifty shares in the stock of that company are listed in the inventory at $200,000. As an item of the personal estate, the appraisers also note a trunk and its contents, which he had placed with the Lincoln Trust Company of New York. In the trunk are certain of his manuscripts, but no value is placed on them, for the originals are at Stormfield. Paragraph containing illegal text of dollar amounts on various corporate shares has been omitted here. The inventory tells the story of certain unfortunate investments which the author made, notably his venture in the securities of the Plasmon Milk Product Company. The total value of his 375 shares in this company is placed at $100. His 5,000 shares in the Plasmon Syndicated Limited is set down at $1,000. His 400 shares of the Plasmon Company of America are set down as valueless, and nearly 1,000 shares of various corporations are marked as worthless. The furniture and furnishing of Stormfield are valued at $10,145, of which $1,000 represents the silverware and $2,000 the books in the library. The estate of his daughter, Jean Clemens, who died less than a year ago, descended wholly to her father. Its total was $7,000, which will be delivered to the executors of Mark Twain's will after its settlement. Besides the appraisers, the inventory is signed by the executors of the estate, Edward E. Loomis, S. Freeman, and Jarvis Langdon. An extension of the usual sixty days for submitting the inventory was obtained, and it was not returned until six months had passed. At the time of Mark Twain's death in April it was predicted that his estate would be a large one, and the fact that the figures run above $600,000, peculiarly interesting, when it is remembered that he started as a printer's apprentice at the age of twelve, and that as he was approaching his sixtieth year his entire fortune was swept away with the failure of the C. L. Webster Company, the luckless venture in which he embarked with his nephew in the hope of keeping to himself the publisher's profit on his large sale. His courage was undaunted by this reversal, and he took to the lecture platform, paying his debts as Sir Walter Scott had done, and building up another fortune before his death some fifteen years later. His intimacy with H. H. Rogers, the financier, it has often been thought, assisted Mark Twain through the period of the reconstruction of his fortunes, and he had undoubtedly the advantage of exceptional advice in the matter of investments. He never again attempted publishing on his own account, although the recollection of his earlier success with the Webster Company must have been tempting, for it was during the period some years prior to its failure that such books were produced as Huckleberry Finn, a Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court, the American Claimant, Puddinhead Wilson, and Tom Sawyer Abroad. Mrs. Osip Komrinyevich sailed for Europe on Saturday, leaving instructions that Stormfield and the real estate be sold. End of Section 28, October 27, 1910, Mark Twain left daughter $611,136, read by John Greenman. Section 29 of Mark Twain in the New York Times, Part 6, 1910 through 1919. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain read by John Greenman. October 28, 1910, Editorial. Mark Twain's Fortune The greatest American humorous left a large fortune for a man of letters to accumulate. In his middle life, even on the threshold of old age, he was practically bankrupt. He died leaving nearly $550,000 in personal property and $70,000 worth of real estate. Wise management of his affairs under good advice made him a comparatively rich man, rich enough, some folks will say, for any man to be, and much better off than most of his contemporaries in American literary life, perhaps than any of them. His royalties in his later years were large, to be sure, but the capacity with which his surplus money was invested indicates the value of a sound financial advisor to a literary man. It is said that the Utah mining shares, estimated by his executors, to be worth nearly $81,000, were purchased for about $10 a share. His Union Pacific shares were probably bought at a much lower price than the prevailing quotation. On the other hand, sixty shares in the Roodaport Central Deep's scheduled in the inventory at $150, and certain shares in a land company, valued at $500, may be taken to indicate the humorist's own tendency to make investments with no other guide but his own imagination. The inventory suggests that Mark Twain was very well paid for his work. If he had sought good counsel in his investments early in life, and had kept out of purely commercial ventures, for the conduct of which he lacked both training and temperament, his fortune might have been twice as large as it was, and he had lived well for many years. Therefore the question, does literature pay, is answered affirmatively in this case, literature pays when the writer has the genius, the comprehension of his era, the power to charm, amuse, and uplift, which Samuel L. Clemens possessed. October 28, 1910. Editorial. Mark Twain's Fortune. Read by John Greenman. Section 30 of Mark Twain in the New York Times Part 6. 1910 through 1919. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain read by John Greenman. November 14, 1910. Memorial to Mark Twain. Distinguished man to pay tribute to him at Carnegie Hall. Distinguished man will speak at the memorial ceremony in honour of Mark Twain at Carnegie Hall on Wednesday, November 30. The speakers will pay their tributes to him as a real friend of mankind. They will be intimate associates of the late humorist and philosopher. There will be no invocation. William Dean Howells, who was perhaps Mark Twain's closest friend, will say a few words of introduction and introduce each speaker. Joseph H. Chote will recall experiences he shared with Mark Twain. The Reverend Joseph Hopkins Twitchell, long pastor of the Church at Hartford, Connecticut, which the Clemens family attended, will present a side of the humorist not well known to the public. Champ Clark will speak as a representative of Missouri, Mark Twain's native state, and as one of his intimate friends. Speaker Cannon, also a close friend of the author for many years, will tell of the things the humorists did and said during their long struggle for an equitable copyright law. Colonel Henry Watterson will recount anecdotes illustrating the life and character of the great humorist, and the Reverend Dr. Henry Van Dyke will read a poem in his honour. The Executive Committee in charge of the arrangements for the ceremony are Mr. Howells, William Milligan Sloan, and Robert Underwood Johnson. The other men who constitute the Mark Twain Memorial Committee are Edwin Austin Abbey, Henry Mills Alden, John White Alexander, John Bigelow, Arthur Twinning Hadley, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Thomas Hastings, Henry James, Henry Cabot Lodge, Hamilton Wright Maybe, Alfred Thayer Mayan, Brander Matthews, Bliss Perry, James Ford Rhodes, Henry Van Dyke, and Woodrow Wilson. Application for seats or boxes should be sent to Robert Underwood Johnson, 33 East 17th Street, Secretary of the Executive Committee. Enter Section 30, November 14, 1910, Memorial to Mark Twain, read by John Greenman. Section 31 of Mark Twain in the New York Times, Part 6, 1910 through 1919. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain read by John Greenman. November 23, 1910, Tribute to Mark Twain. William Dean Howells to preside at a memorial service here next week. A memorial service for Mark Twain will be held on Wednesday, November 30, in Carnegie Hall. William Dean Howells, one of the closest literary associates of Mr. Clemens, will preside, and the speakers will include Joseph H. Chout, the Reverend Joseph Hopkins Twitchell, long pastor of the church at Hartford, Connecticut, attended by the Clemens family, Champ Clark, Speaker Joseph Cannon, Colonel Henry Waterson, and the Reverend Dr. Henry Van Dyke. Mr. Howells is head of the Executive Committee in charge of the arrangements. He is assisted by William Millican Sloan and Robert Underwood Johnson. Others in the memorial committee are Edwin Austin, Henry Mills Alden, John White Alexander, John Bigelow, Arthur Twinning Hadley, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Thomas Heistings, Henry James, Henry Cabot Lodge, Hamilton Wright Mabey, Alfred Thayer Mann, Brander Matthews, Bliss Perry, James Ford Rhodes, Henry Van Dyke, and Woodrow Wilson. The End of Section 31, November 23rd, Tribute to Mark Twain. Read by John Greenman. Section 32 of Mark Twain in the New York Times, Part 6, 1910-1919. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain read by John Greenman. December 1, 1910. Pay Warm Tribute to Twain's Memory. This edited article omits a long list of attendees. Throng at Carnegie Hall hears humorous stories of the humorist and philosopher. His old friends there—Chote, Cannon, Howells, Twitchell, and others give reminiscences of his life here and abroad. Nearly five thousand persons packed Carnegie Hall last night to honour the memory of Mark Twain, while almost every one of the prominence in the literary life and activity of the eastern half of the country was present, there were many others besides, representing business, finance, and all the professions. The gathering was one of the most distinguished brought together here in years. The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Joseph G. Cannon—Uncle Joe, as Mark Twain always called him, even to his face—was one of the principal as well as one of the most powerful speakers, his talk overflowing with good stories about his friend. Champ Clark of Missouri, minority leader in the present Congress, and slated to succeed Mr. Cannon as Speaker in the Next, was another to pay Mark Twain tribute. Others who spoke were his old friend William Dean Howells, who was chosen to preside. Joseph H. Chote, Henry Waterson, whom Mark Twain, like many others, called Mars Henry, when he didn't call him Cousin Henry, as they were connected by marriage, the Reverend Dr. Joseph H. Twitchell of Hartford, the humorous old pastor and intimate friend, George W. Cable, and Henry Van Dyke, the latter reading a poem entitled Mark Twain, written for the occasion. Not an occasion for sadness. There was a good deal about the monies that was tender, nothing that was sad, but much good humor, many bright sayings and many good stories. Not a few of these were Mark Twain's own. Many of those who knew the humorist best felt that it was just the sort of meeting he would have sanctioned if his consent to such a gathering could have been obtained. Mr. Howells said in the beginning it would never do to make a solemn thing of moral. If the mood and make of our commemoration could be left to Mark Twain, said he, we might imagine him saying, why, of course, you mustn't make a solemnity of it. You mustn't have it that sort of obsequie. I should want you to be serious about me, that is sincere, and you couldn't be sincere if you ran to eulogy. But we don't object here to any man's affection. We like to be liked as well as ever, and if any of you can remember some credible thing about me, I shouldn't mind his telling it, provided always he didn't blink the paliating circumstances, the mitigating motives, the selfish considerations that accompany every noble action. I shouldn't like to be made out a miracle of humor either, and left a stumbling block for anyone who was intending to be moderately amusing and instructive hereafter. At the same time I don't suppose a commemoration is exactly the occasion for dwelling on a man's shortcomings in his life, of his literature, or for realizing that he has entered upon an immortality of oblivion. Mr. Chote's Speech Mr. Chote also said it wouldn't do to make the meeting one of morning. He said all the world had come to recognize Mark Twain in lifetime as the foremost American man of letter, and the greatest humorist of the world. His Huckleberry Finn, Colonel Sellers and Tom Sawyer, Mr. Chote said, were as well known as any historical characters in American annals. His books were first read for their humor, for their freshness from the soil, Mr. Chote declared, and luckily Mark Twain's sentences didn't have to be read and re-read to get their meaning, which ever finally had to be guessed at. This was one reason, Mr. Chote thought, why the middle classes of England associated his works with Robinson Crusoe. He and the humorist were at the German summer resort on one occasion and Emperor William was there also. The Kaiser sent one of the officers of his retinue to Mark Twain, asking him to come to see him. He went immediately, of course. When he entered the room where the German Emperor was, the Kaiser called out to the Empress, who was in the adjoining room, saying, come here! Here's Mark Twain! Here's Mark Twain! At another time Dr. Twitchell and Mark Twain were in another part of the Europe and the Prince of Wales, afterward King Edward VII, was at the same place. The Prince sent for Mark Twain and Dr. Twitchell said the two were chatting in a minute, as if they had known each other for years. When they had talked for about an hour, Dr. Twitchell said, they marched off together, heading the Prince's following of about a dozen officers in attendance. It was such a picture as one is rarely permitted to see, he said. The Prince was erect and soldierly and bearing. By his side was the familiar loose-jointed figure of Mark Twain, getting over-ground with his usual shambling gate. In his right hand he grasped an umbrella by the middle, and this he was waving almost frantically sometimes in gesticulation. According to Dr. Twitchell, Mark Twain said of this occasion that he had found the Prince quite quick-witted. The speaker said Mark Twain was a fine storyteller in his own home, enveloping his yarns with a richness not to be found in his own stories. Speaker Cannon was evidently the favorite with the audience. There was long applause when he came forward, presented by Mr. Howells as another man besides Mark Twain who loved his cigar. The speaker said that many years before anyone else present was born, he used to hear the Mississippi pilots sing out, Mark Twain, Mark Twain, meaning a depth of two fathoms of water. But he didn't think then that a man would spring up who would make those words famous throughout the world. He feared pirates. Mr. Cannon told how Mark Twain had come to Washington to lobby. Yes, to lobby! repeated Speaker Cannon, in the interest of an amendment to the copyright law. The humorist, frankly, said he wanted to protect his and his children's rights against pirates. Mr. Cannon said Mark Twain had a burning desire to appear on the floor of the House of Representatives and argue his cause. The humorist came to see him about it and the speaker told him it could not be done, as such a thing had never been done. He told him that none but members and ex-members had the privilege of the floor of the House. The only precedents in the cases of others were where persons had received the thanks of Congress. Soon after this Mark Twain himself brought to his desk a letter addressed to the speaker. Here is the letter. December 7. Dear Uncle Joseph, please get me the thanks of Congress, not next week, but right away. It is very necessary. Do accomplish this at once, by persuasion, if you can, by violence if you must, for it is absolutely necessary that I get on the floor for two or three hours and talk to the congressmen man by man. I have arguments with me, also a barrel with liquid in it. I have stayed away from Congress and let alone for seventy-one years, and I am entitled to its thanks. Congress knows this well and it never has publicly acknowledged its appreciation. Send me a reply at once with an order on the sergeant at arms, with love and benediction. Mark Twain. In his address Mr. Waterson paid a notable tribute to the humorous life. His marriage, said Mr. Waterson, was the most brilliant success of his life. He got the woman of all the world he most needed, a truly lovely and wise helpmate, who kept him in bounds and headed him straight and right while she lived, the best of housewives and mothers, and the safest of counselors and soundest of critics. She knew his worth. She understood his genius. She clearly saw his limitations and angles. Her death was a grievous disaster as well as a staggering blow. He never quite survived it. The closing feature of the meeting was Dr. Van Dyke's poem, read by himself. Here it is. We knew you well, dear York of the West, a very soul of large and friendly jest, that loved and mocked the broad grotesque of things in this new world, where all the folk are kings. Your breezy humor cleared the air with sport of shams that haunt the democratic court, for even where the sovereign people rule a human monarch needs a royal fool. Your native drawl lent flavor to your wit. Your arrows lingered, but they always hit. Homeric mirth around the circle ran, but left no wound upon the heart of man. We knew you kind in trouble, break in pain. We saw your honor kept without a stain. We read this lesson of our Yorick's years. True wisdom comes with laughter and with tears. None of his relatives there. No close relative of Mark Twain's was present. His daughter, Mrs. Osset Kabrylovitch, is in Europe. Among those on the platform besides the speakers were Cass Gilbert, Lawrence Gilman, Daniel C. French, Dr. H. Holbrook Curtis, Edwin Howland Blashfield, and John Burroughs. December 1, 1910. Pay warm tribute to Twain's memory. Read by John Greenman. Section 33 of Mark Twain in the New York Times Part 6. 1910 through 1919. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain read by John Greenman. December 3, 1910. Tribute to Mark Twain by Brander Matthews. It would be hard to find in any language better specimens of pure narrative, better examples of the power of telling a story and of calling up action so that the reader cannot help but see it, than Mark Twain's account of the Shepardson-Granjaford feud, and his description of the shooting of bogs by Sherburne and the Shepardson-Granjaford feud. These scenes, fine as they are, vivid, powerful, and most artistic in their restraint, can be matched in the two other books. In Tom Sawyer they can be paralleled by the chapter in which the boy and the girl are lost in the cave, and Tom, seeing a gleam of light in the distance, can be seen in the book of the Shepardson-Granjaford feud. It can be seen in the book of the Shepardson-Granjaford feud. And Tom, seeing a gleam of light in the distance, discovers that it is a candle carried by the Indian Joe, the one enemy he has in the world. In Pudinhead Wilson the great passages of Huckleberry Finn are rivaled by that most pathetic account of the weak son, willing to sell his own mother as a slave down the river. I have no hesitation in expressing here my own conviction that the man who has given us four scenes like these is to be compared with the masters of literature. Mark Twain's style. Consider the tale of the Blue Jai in A Tramp Abroad wherein the humor is sustained by unstated pathos. What could be better told than this with every word the right word and in the right place? And take Huck Finn's description of the storm when he was alone on the island, which is in dialect, which will not parse, which bristles with double negatives, but which nonetheless is one of the finest passages of description prose in all American literature. Mark Twain, American. In Mark Twain we have the national spirit as seen with our own eyes, declared Mr. Hulls, and from more points of view than one, Mark Twain seems to me to be the very embodiment of Americanism, combining a mastery of the commonplace with an imaginative faculty. He is a practical idealist. No respecter of persons he has a tender regard for his fellow men. Irreverent toward all outworn superstitions he has ever revealed the deepest respect for all things, truly worthy of reverence. He has a habit of standing upright, of thinking for himself, and of hitting hard at what so ever seems to him hateful and mean. But at the core of him there is genuine gentleness and honest sympathy, brave humanity, and sweet kindliness. Mark Twain has the very marrow of Americanism. Mark Twain, Humanist. Like Molière Mark Twain takes his stand on common sense and makes scorn of affectation of every sort. He understands sinners and strugglers and weaklings, and he is not harsh with them, reserving his scorching hatred for hypocrites and pretenders and frauds. Mark Twain, Humorist. After all it is as a humorist, pure and simple, that Mark Twain is best known and best beloved. He is a fund-maker beyond all question, and he has made a laugh as no other man of our century has done. The laughter he has aroused is wholesome and self-respecting. It clears the atmosphere. Huckleberry Finn. He followed life on the Mississippi with the story in which that life has been crystallized forever, Huckleberry Finn, the odyssey of the Mississippi, the finest of his books, the deepest in its insight, and the widest in its appeal. Tom Sawyer. In no book, in our language, to my mind, has the boy, simply as a boy, been better realized than in Tom Sawyer. Puddinhead Wilson. In some respects Puddinhead Wilson is the most dramatic of Mark Twain's longer stories and also the most ingenious. Like Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, it has the full flavor of the Mississippi River, on which its author spent his own boyhood, and from contact with the soil of which he always rises, reinvigorated. Special Offer. Mark Twain. This is something more than a special offer of books, it is an opportunity, a chance, your opportunity. Mark Twain himself made this offer possible in the first place by foregoing a large part of his customary royalties. The offer is his complete works, twenty-five beautiful volumes for twenty-five dollars. The price is literally cut in half. A good many people believe that education comes only from schools and colleges, it doesn't. The most effective, most worthwhile education comes from a knowledge of human nature and a knowledge of life. And the best way to learn these things, that are real, is in the pages of Mark Twain's books. You have thought of him only as a humorist and philosopher. He is far more than this. He is, first of all, a teacher, and you may benefit by his rich experience, use his powers of observation, learn human nature through his pages. Every page in the fifty-dollar edition is included in this new edition. Never before has a copyrighted library set of a standard author's works been issued at such a low figure in this new set. There are beautiful pictures by Frost, Newell, Smedley, Thulstrip, Kleindinst, Kemble, and Opper. The binding is in rich red-wrapped silk book cloth with little labels stamped in gold. The books are printed on white antique-wove paper, especially made for this edition. Each volume is of generous size and bulk, five by seven-and-a-half inches. A Christmas gift. To avoid any disappointment, in view of the great demand for Mark Twain's works, we would request that if you wish to use the set for a Christmas gift, you favour us with your order at once. You need only fill in this order blank and all the books come to you at once. Then send two dollars a month until the full amount is paid. This chance will not, cannot, occur again. Harper and Brothers. December 4, 1910. Mark Twain's Relatives. Letter to the Editor. To the Editor of the New York Times. The Times of Thursday Morning, in its report of the Mark Twain Memorial meeting at Carnegie Hall, says, No near relative of Mark Twain was present. His daughter, Mrs. Ossipka Brilevich, is in Europe. Besides his daughter, Mark Twain had no near relatives living, at least in this vicinity, although some members of his sister's family may be living in Fredonia in this state. His nephew, Samuel E. Moffitt of Collier's Weekly, was drowned at Atlantic City two or three years ago, leaving me, a second cousin, his next nearest of kin here, as far as I have been able to discover, and I am pretty sure he never made any efforts himself in that direction. P.S. I was present at the Memorial meeting. W.J. Lampton, New York, December 1, 1910. End of Section 34, December 4, 1910. Mark Twain's Relatives. Read by John Greenman. Section 35 of Mark Twain in the New York Times, Part 6, 1910 through 1919. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain, read by John Greenman. December 7, 1910. Letter to the Editor. Mark Twain's Family. To the Editor of the New York Times. Mr. W.J. Lampton, who claims to be a second cousin of Mark Twain, judging from his letter in today's Times, seems to be somewhat misinformed in regard to the family. Besides Mark Twain's daughter and granddaughter now living in Europe, he left a niece, Miss Annie Moffitt of Webster, a grand-niece, Miss Jean Webster, the author, a grand-nephew, Mr. Samuel C. Webster, all living in the city, and a grand-nephew, Mr. William L. Webster of London, England, also a grand-niece and nephew, Miss Anita Moffitt and Master Clement Moffitt, living at Mount Vernon, New York, children of the late Samuel E. Moffitt of Collier's Weekly. Mrs. Webster, as a child, was brought up in the same house with Samuel Clemens, who, during his Mississippi pilot days, made his home with his married sister, Mrs. Pamela Moffitt, in St. Louis. She is the only member of the family now left who was associated with him in his early days. I do not know, but I should suppose that all five of these nieces and nephews living in or around New York were present at the memorial meeting in Carnegie Hall. A. F. Barton, New York, December 4, 1910. End of Section 35, December 7, 1910, Mark Twain's Family. Read by John Greenman. Section 36 of Mark Twain in the New York Times, Part 6. 1910 through 1919. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain read by John Greenman. January 6, 1911. To Buy Mark Twain's Home. Plan also to erect Monument on Bluff near Tom Sawyer's Cave. Special to the New York Times. Jefferson City, Missouri, January 5. One and perhaps two measures will be introduced in the General Assembly early in the session, calculated, if adopted, to commemorate and honor Mark Twain. Senator Frank McAllister of Monroe will present a measure for purchasing the boyhood home of Samuel L. Clemens, which now stands within the corporate limits of Hannibal. Representative Frank Sose of Marion has prepared a bill appropriating $10,000 for the erection of a monument to the humorist. Judge Roy, Secretary of the Hannibal Commercial Club, said that if the legislature will provide for a monument, the citizens of Hannibal will furnish the most conspicuous point in that city as a site. This will probably be Lovers Leap, a big bluff overlooking the Mississippi River, which is close to the cave Mr. Clemens made famous in Tom Sawyer. End of Section 36. January 6, 1911. To Buy Mark Twain's Home. Read by John Greenman. Section 37 of Mark Twain in the New York Times, Part 6. 1910 through 1919. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Read by John Greenman. February 7, 1911. The Heavenly Twins. Mark Twain's copy of Sarah Grant's work with notations up for sale. Mark Twain's copy of The Heavenly Twins by Sarah Grant, with the reading of which he beguiled his time during one of his sea voyages, will be sold at Anderson's on February 17th. Sick. And it is of a special interest as it contains numerous autograph notes scattered throughout the book, giving his opinions of it. The story at first did not please him and his comments are severely critical, but as he proceeded he found things that met with his approbation. On page 74 he writes, Thus far the Twins are valueless lumber and an impertinent and offensive intrusion. On page 149 he says, Blank paper in the place of these Twins would be a large advantage to the book. On other pages he writes, These Twins are thirty years old and are these tiresome creatures supposed to be funny? And again these disgusting creatures talk like Dr. Johnson and act like idiots. The authorist thinks that this silly performance of theirs is humorous. The art of all this, he says on pages 274 and 275, is intolerably bad. It is literary prentice work. This is wretchedly done. A cat could do better literature than that. Further on he says, The writer preserves her dignity and her sanity except when she is talking about her putrid Twins. Then she is vulgar and idiotic. Of chapter 6 he observes a difficult chapter to write well, but she did it. On page 341 he says, With Twins left out, this book is more than good. It is great and packed full of hideous truths. Powerfully stated, I will not sit in judgment upon the English woman who disapproved of this book. She has done that herself. While it is true that the American woman is and always has been a coward and a slave like her sex everywhere, she has escaped some of the degradations of her English sister, degradations whose sources rank and cast. The sacredness of property and the tyranny of a heartless political church. Speaking of the sacredness of property, how England does adore the almighty farthing. On page 407 he says, It is very curious. There is nothing but labored and rubberly and unsuccessful attempts at humor concerning the Twins up to chapter 7, book 3, but all this about the boy in this book 4 is very good fun indeed. His final comment is, the grammar is often dreadful, even hideous, but never mind that. It is a strong good book. End of section 37, February 7, 1911, The Heavenly Twins, Read by John Greenman. Section 38 of Mark Twain and the New York Times, Part 6, 1910 through 1919. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain read by John Greenman. February 8, 1911, Twain manuscripts sold. Several are withdrawn, one being his attack on Theodore Roosevelt. The sale of the Mark Twain books and manuscripts was begun yesterday in Anderson's auction rooms. The manuscript of the article on the inauguration of President Taft and the deliverance of the country from Mr. Roosevelt, two pages dated March 6, 1908, containing much abuse of the ex-president, was withdrawn, it being explained that it had been sent to the auction without the knowledge of Mr. Clemens literary executor, Albert Bigelow Payne. There were also withdrawn, with similar explanation, a copy of George Tickner's Life, Letters and Journals, containing a criticism of President Grant and his Cabinet, and a copy of the Songs of Yale with a note attacking Joseph Howler Jr. Of the items sold, the highest price, $790, was paid for the autographed manuscript of a double barrel detective story, written on one side of 126 leaves and signed in full at the end. Six other Mark Twain manuscripts sold as follows. How the chimney sweep got the ear of the emperor, 26 leaves signed in full, $185, extracts from Adam's Diary, 26 leaves at the beginning in pencil, published, don't remember when, S-L-C, $180. The death disk, 37 leaves in pencil, signed $107.50. Outline or notes for a portion of the story of Huckleberry Finn, which relates to the fight in the cave, one page, Octovo, written in pencil, $23. Printing estimate of the cost of certain newspaper work, $16, and title page for the cover of Appendix to a Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, $20. Adam's copy of the Heavenly Twins by Sarah Grand, with penciled autograph notes by him throughout the work, brought $55. Audubon's Birds of America, $1860, $1870, $85. The choice of humorous works of Mark Twain, 12 Mo, London, $1874, with Mark Twain on flyleaf, and numerous notes by him, $40. Adam's Tagebuch und andere Geschichten von Mark Twain, 12 Mo, Stuttgart, 1901, presentation copy from him to his wife, November 30, 1901, $40. What is man, only 250 copies privately printed by Mr. Clemens for distribution among his friends, the second copy to be offered at public auction, $55. CF Gordon Cummings in the Himalayas and on the Indian Plains, with hundreds of marginal notes by Mark Twain, $35. Our Wild Indians by Richard Irving Dodge, with numerous marginal notes by Mark Twain, in one of which he compares the Indian's Great Spirit with the Christian's God, $25. St. Coleridge's Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner, illustrated by Gustav Dore, presentation copy from Mark Twain to his wife, November 27, 1876, $37. J. R. Greene's Short History of the English People with Humorous and Critical Comments by Mark Twain, $16. Presentation copy from Joel Chandler Harris of Free Joe and Other Georgia Sketches, $10.50. The Crime of Sylveste Bonard by Anatole France, illustrated by Lafcadio Hearn, with Mark Twain Comments, $21. Mark Twain's Tobacco Box, containing about a pound of loose tobacco, $31. David Hume's History of England with numerous marked paragraphs, from which it would seem that, here, Mark Twain gathered some of his facts for The Prince and the Pauper, $15.50. A copy of the History and Antiquities of the City of York, England, 1785, with many characteristic Twain Comments such as, Edward's Son was the first nobleman that was ever beheaded in England. Started the fashion. $10.00. A copy of the first edition of What I Know About Farming, with the inscription to Mark Twain Esquire Ed Buffalo Express, who knows even less of my farming than does Horace Greeley, in York, $22.00. Triumphant Democracy, with inscription S. L. Clemens Esquire, with regards of his fellow Republican, Andrew Carnegie, $11.00. And, dollars and cents, or how to get on, presentation copy, to Samuel L. Clemens Esquire, Mark Twain, with kind regards of P. T. Barnum Bridgeport, Connecticut, October 16, 1890, $9.50. The total for the day was $2,715. The sale will be continued today. End of Section 38, February 8, 1911, Twain Manuscripts Sold. Read by John Greenman. Section 39 of Mark Twain in the New York Times, Part 6, 1910 through 1919. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain, read by John Greenman. February 9, 1911, More Twain Books Sold. $7109 realized in two days at auction of his manuscripts and souvenirs. The original autographed manuscript the man that corrupted Hadleyburg was knocked down for $900 to A. H. Hallow at the concluding session by the Anderson Company yesterday of the first part of the sale of Mark Twain's library and manuscripts. It was the highest price of the day. It is written on one side of 146 leaves, is signed, and is dated Vienna, October 1898. The manuscript of A Horse's Tail, in 159 leaves, and signed, went to Dodd and Livingston for $600. It contains the following note to the compositors by the author. Please faithfully and exactly reproduce the portrait marked Kathy on Seville. I should like the face preserved as accurately as possible in all pictures of her, and I would like to have them submitted to me before they are engraved. It is the daughter whom we lost by death. S. L. C. Other Mark Twain manuscripts sold as follows. Meistershaft in three acts written on 92 leaves, $500. Hallow, the $30,000 bequest written on 81 leaves, $400. Dodd and Livingston. The debut as a literary person written on 64 leaves, dated at the end Vienna, October 1898, and signed Mark Twain, his account of his first attempt at writing for a magazine, $350. Dodd and Livingston. My Boyhood Dreams, written on 18 leaves and with signature Mark Twain, Clemens and S. L. C., occurring several times, $160. J. F. Drake. Notes for finishing the Missouri Detective Wheeler story, 14 October pages, $50, G. Weiss, and for concluding leaves of a typewritten manuscript, The Turning Points of My Life, signed by Mark Twain, $22.50, Weiss. Other interesting items sold as follows. A bronze bullfrog, a memento of Mark Twain's story The Jumping Frog, $16, a cream and brown pottery cup with silver brim on which has engraved E. Wyndham to S. L. Clemens, Oxford, 1876, $25, the Brooklyn Club, Cotton Mathers Magnolia Christi Americana, with numerous critical notes by Mark Twain, $37.50, G. D. Smith. The Restigooch and its Salmon Fishing by Dean Sage, Edinburgh, 1888, of which only 105 copies were printed, $105, the Union Club, a presentation copy of Samuel F. G. Whitaker's translation of La Voca Patelaine, adapted by the Abbe Brice from the farce of his 15th century, in which Mark Twain has written, interviewer vulgarities, insists upon first person, their phrasing necessarily becoming his not mine. He puts humor in my mouth, thinks humor necessary, which I don't. Eight dollars. And a bronze cat, life-size, seated on a pile of books, of carved wood, a bronze mouse peeping from a hole it had made in an antique folio, one of the relics from the home of Mark Twain at Stormfield, $77.50. The total for the day was $4,394, and the grand total $7,109. Part two of Mark Twain's library, considered of Autographic Letters, will be sold later. End of Section 39, February 9, 1911, More Twain Books Sold. Read by John Greenman. Section 40 of Mark Twain in the New York Times, Part 6, 1910 through 1919. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain read by John Greenman. February 12, 1910. Sharp Comments by Twain. Written on his copy of Green's History of the English People. Mark Twain's copy of A Short History of the English People by J. R. Green, which sold for $16 at Anderson's the past week, shows that the humorist carefully read the first chapter of the work, with good notations pointing out grammatical errors, mixed metaphors, and obscure or involved statements. His comments are amusing. On page 55, Green says, The great fabric of the Roman law indeed never took root in England. And Twain asks, Does a fabric ever take root? Further down on the same page, Green says, However, recovered from his wound to march on the West Saxons. And Twain's comment is, Did he recover from his wound merely for the purpose of marching upon the West Saxons? On page 56, Green says that the same King slew and subdued all who had conspired against him. And Twain adds, made corpses of the conspirators, and then subdued the corpses. There are many other similar notes throughout this chapter. In a copy of Samuel Clark's Mirror or Looking Glass, both for Saints and Sinners, London 1671, which brought ten dollars, there are various passages marked by Mr. Clemens and notes in his handwriting. On page 82 he applies the epithet, to Saint Satteras, who is reported as saying that he was resolved to forsake his wife, children, home, etc., for the love of Christ. On page 276, where Leilis Sinus is said to have been of the opinion that a person may be saved without knowledge of the scriptures, Twain's comment is, sensible again. On page 462, Fulgentius is spoken of faithful in prayer, and thus able to keep his own city and safety when all the rest of the province was in captivity to the Moors. Twain says, they ought to have hired him to travel around. On the same page it is stated that fervent and frequent prayer was instrumental in restoring a prominent man to health. Twain's remarks, it failed in General Garfield's case, in J.T. Bentz the Freak of Freedom, or the Republic of San Marino, the author says, a small hamlet belonging to the Republic has grown up around a well where the saint used to baptize his converts springing from underneath a cliff. And, Twain queries, did the converts spring or was it the saint? End of section 40, February 12, 1911, sharp comments by Twain, read by John Greenman. Section 41 of Mark Twain in the New York Times, Part 6, 1910 through 1919, this LibriVox recording is in the public domain read by John Greenman. February 19, 1911, Dedicate Twain's Library. Memorial to his daughter Jean, originally opened at Redding, Connecticut. Redding, Connecticut, February 18. The Mark Twain Library, built as a memorial to Miss Jean L. Clemens, daughter of the humorist, who was drowned in a bathtub in her father's home, Stormfield, on December 24, 1909, was formally dedicated this afternoon. The dresses were made by the Reverend Joseph H. Twitchell of Hartford and the Reverend Frederick Winslow Adams from the University of New York. The money for the erection of the building was given by Mr. Clemens a few days before his death to the trustees of the library, which he founded in 1908. The building is of colonial design, one story in height, and contains part of the collection of books that formerly constituted the private library of the humorist and some rare pictures from Stormfield. End of Section 41, February 19, 1911, Dedicate Twain's Library, read by John Greenman. Section 42 of Mark Twain in the New York Times, Part 6, 1910 through 1919. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain read by John Greenman. March 26, 1911, queries put to authors, and the replies of the authors form part of an unusual collection. A notable collection of association copies and first editions, formed by the Reverend L. M. Powers of Haverville, Massachusetts, will be sold at Marwyn Clayton's on April 4. In the case of the Mark Twain and John Burrow's books, the queries put to the authors and their autograph replies are of biographical as well as bibliographical interest. On the flyleaf of a first edition of the celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County is Mr. Powers' written query. Did John Paul discover you or did you know you were a good thing of yourself? Mark Twain's reply is John Paul never discovered anything or any body. He was not even a very good liar. S. L. C. Mark Twain. In a copy of the Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mr. Powers asks, did you remember or imagine this perfect picture of a natural boy? The inscribed answer is partially I was it. S. L. C. The following query is on the flyleaf of the History of the Big Bonanza by Dan Dequill. William Wright, is there any truth in the newspaper's story that you planned this book for the author before you knew he had written it? The answer is Yes, it is true Mark Twain. The question asked on the back of the frontispiece of a true story and the recent carnival of crime, these, this is the hardest of all your books to get. Why is that? Is answered with Weiss Nischt, Mark Twain. The following inscription by the author is in a copy of the Prince and the pauper. Only he who has seen better days and lives to see better days again knows their full value. Truly yours, Mark Twain. February 19, 1902. Inscribed on the flyleaf of the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is the following. One should not pay a person a compliment and straight away follow it with a criticism. It is better to kiss him now and kick him next week. Truly yours, Mark Twain. Inscribed in a copy of After Dinner Speeches at the Lotus Club is the following letter from Mark Twain November 9, 1905. Dear Mr. Powers, I should accept your hospitable offer at once, for the fact that I couldn't do it and remain honest. That is to say, if I allowed you to send me what you believe to be good cigars, it would distinctly mean that I meant to smoke them, whereas I should do nothing of the kind. I know a good cigar better than you do, but I had 60 years experience. No, that is not what I mean. I mean, I know a bad cigar better than anybody else. I judge by the price only. If it costs above five cents, I know it to be either foreign or half foreign and unsmokable. By me I have boxes of Havana cigars of all prices from 20 cents apiece up to $1.66 apiece. I bought none of them. They were all presents. They are an accumulation of several years. I have never smoked one of them and never shall. I am a magician. I have never drunk one of them and never should have, or my lord, This is my case. Sincerely yours, S. L. Clemens." After Section 42, March 26, 1911, queries put to authors, read by John Greenman. Section 43 of Mark Twain in the New York Times, Part 6, 1910-1919. June 17, 1911, Mark Twain's estate to pay less. An order reducing the assessment on the personal estate of Samuel L. Clemens, Mark Twain, in 1905, from $50,000 to $20,000, was signed yesterday by Supreme Court Justice Newburger on the application of the Clemens estate. An affidavit made by the author during his lifetime was used by the executors of his will in making the application. After Section 43, June 17, 1911, Mark Twain's estate to pay less, read by John Greenman. Section 44 of Mark Twain in the New York Times, Part 6, 1910-1919. July 15, 1911, Mark Twain estate about half million. Largely in stocks and estimated worth of the Mark Twain company. Property in two states. Principally in this city and at his home in Reading, Connecticut. Manuscripts said to be without value. Deputy State Comptroller Julius Harburger filed with the surrogates court yesterday the tax appraisal of the estate of Samuel L. Clemens, Mark Twain. Mr. Clemens died at his home in Connecticut on April 21, 1910. He left, in this state and Connecticut, an estate aggregating $471,136. By the terms of the will, which was made on August 7, 1909, the author leaves his entire estate to his sole surviving daughter, Mrs. Clara Clemens-Gabrilevich. The witnesses to the will were Albert Bigelow Payne, Harry A. Launsbury of Reading, Connecticut, and Charles T. Lark of 571 West 139th Street, this city. The executors of the will were Zoheth S. Freeman and Edward E. Loomis, both of New York, and Gervis Langdon of Elmira. Mr. Clemens left no real estate in this state, but his personal property here amounted to $296,746. He held among his personal effects 929 shares of stock of five different companies at different times, which turned out to be worthless, as in most cases the companies were out of business. Included in the estate in Connecticut were 1,750 shares of the Utah Consolidated Mining Company, valued at $80,377, 165 shares of the United Fruit Company, valued at $29,370, 400 shares of Anaconda Copper Company, valued at $18,100, and 100 shares of Union Pacific Railroad Company, valued at $18,587. His property at Reading, Connecticut is valued at $70,000. A trunk containing manuscripts was said to be without value. Some of his important holdings in this state were 50 shares of the Mark Twain Company, valued at $200,000, and 100 shares of American Telephone and Telegraph Company, valued at $13,687, and 813 shares of J. Langdon and Company, valued at $21,674. The author also left books valued at $2,000. An affidavit by Charles Lark, the witness, states that the appraisal value of $200,000 for the shares in the Mark Twain Company was considered too high by Harper and Brothers, who published Mr. Clemens Books, and who placed an upset value of $180,000 on the stock. In commenting upon the appraisal, there is also a letter from F. A. Dunica of Harper and Brothers, which says, A copyright is a very perishable and usually non-marketable thing, growing of less and less value very rapidly after an author's death. While we expect that during the next four years the Mark Twain estate will receive under existing contracts $18,000 a year upon copyright royalty account, yet this amount after the expiration of existing contracts will immediately tend to dwindle and diminish. We put an upset valuation of $180,000 upon his copyrights, and even this we regard as excessive. End of Section 44, July 15, 1910, Mark Twain estate about half million, read by John Greenman. Section 45 of Mark Twain in the New York Times, Part 6, 1910 through 1919, this LibriVox recording is in the public domain read by John Greenman. July 19, 1911, Twain's estate $600,000. Inheritance tax more than $5,000. Executor's fees $18,000. Stamford, Connecticut, July 18. By the accounting of the executors of the estate of the late Mark Twain, accepted by the probate court today, the inheritance tax to be paid the estate amounts to $5,167.01. The executor's fees amount to $18,000. The final value of the estate is estimated at more than $600,000. End of Section 45, July 19, 1911, Twain's estate $600,000. Read by John Greenman. Section 46 of Mark Twain in the New York Times, Part 6, 1910 through 1919, this LibriVox recording is in the public domain read by John Greenman. September 2, 1911. Save Mark Twain's home. Birthplace, presented to City of Hannibal by George Mayan. Special to the New York Times. Hannibal, Missouri, September 1. The boyhood home of Mark Twain on High Street, built by his father John M. Clemens in 1839, was today purchased by George Mayan, and his wife, and presented to the City of Hannibal that it may be preserved. The old home is a two-story, five-room frame building in a fairly good estate of preservation. Only a few feet away is the alley where Tom Sawyer had the other fellows paint the fence, and on the other end of which lived Huckleberry Finn. Mr. Mayan said, Mark Twain's life teaches that poverty is rather an incentive than a bar, and that any boy, however humble his birth and surroundings, may, by honesty and industry, accomplish great things. That is one of the reasons why his modest boyhood home should be preserved for future young Americans. After Section 46, September 2, 1911, Save Mark Twain's Home, read by John Greenman. This edited article contains only segments about Mark Twain. October 1, 1911. Utah's war governor talks of many famous men. Frank Fuller, still active and vigorous, tells of his talks with Lincoln, how Brigham Young yielded a point of etiquette, why Governor Nye broke a promise with Mark Twain. Frank Fuller, war governor of Utah, physician, lawyer, dentist, author, lecturer, railroad man, reporter, military organizer, and all-around businessman, spent his 84th birthday last Monday in his office in 23rd Street, as busy and active as most men of 50. A stream of callers visited his office all day, some to discuss business matters, and others to offer congratulations upon his attainment of another milestone along the journey of life. Between wiles he exercised with a punching bag, and chatted reminiscently with a Times reporter about the troubles of 61, of the events that led to his appointment as governor following the disappearance of Governor Alfred Cumming, of his intimate talks with Abraham Lincoln and Brigham Young, of the opening of the telegraph line to Salt Lake City, and of his close association with Mark Twain. I saw my first of Mark Twain in Nevada, in the little capital town under the mountain where Governor James W. Nye lived. He was employed at something or other around the governor's premises. On that trip I was admitted to the bar of Nevada, the motion to admit me being made by William M. Stewart, afterward United States Senator. Mark Twain at that time was writing more or less for the Territorial Enterprise of Virginia City, owned and edited by James T. Goodman. A year later I visited California, and found Mark Twain there, and we became quite intimate. That was in 1863. He was writing chiefly for the Morning Call. I was sitting in my private office at 57 Broadway one day when Mark Twain arrived in New York after his successful lectures in San Francisco, Sacramento, Virginia City and St. Louis. He walked into my office and drawled about, Frank, I want to preach right here in New York, and it must be in the biggest hall to be found. I find it is the Cooper Union, and that it costs $70 for one evening, and I have got just $7. I told him he should have that big hall, and he preached there to the biggest audience it had ever held. We started right away to interest the public in his lecture on the Sandwich Islands. We put advertisements in the papers calling on all citizens of the Pacific Coast to meet in the evening at the Metropolitan Hotel to take measures for stimulating interest in the lecture and to give him a big send-off. George Butler, a nephew of Ben Butler of Massachusetts who held a consular position in one of the South American countries, presided at the meeting. He made a speech, introduced Mark Twain, who also made a speech, and there was much enthusiasm. Mark wanted somebody to go to Washington and get Governor James W. Nye to promise to come on and sit on the stage after introducing Mark to the audience. I was selected to go, made the trip to Washington, and was pleasantly received. Governor Nye instantly consented to introduce Mark and begged me to sit right down and write a nice promise, and he would sign it. This was duly done. It was arranged that he should be at the Aster House at 7.30 on the appointed night. I looked in at the old Aster when the night arrived and found Mark in a perfect fever lest that blank, blank Nye was going to disappoint him. I felt that he would, and instructed Mark to proceed to the hall in a carriage at 7.30. Governor Nye did not materialize. Mark begged me to take his place, but I refused positively, and he had to introduce himself. Twenty-five years later I met Governor Nye on a steamboat going to Glencove. Why did you disappoint us that night? I asked him. I never intended to show up, he replied. He's nothing but a damn secessionist. I sent invitations and two tickets to the lecture to every banker, teacher, professors in the colleges and such like, and expected a fine audience. Mark was never a very fine dresser, and though his ordinary sack suit was good enough, I told him he must wear evening dress, and he said he never had had a claw-hammer coat in his life. I put Lynthacum, a first-class tailor, nearly opposite Stewart's Uptown store, on the job, and made him procure a suitable collar and necktie. Then he fixed himself in my private office and rehearsed. He gave me his description of the volcanic eruption at Hawaii when the melted lava made the ocean boil for forty miles. When Mark rehearsed he railed at the damn tailor who had sewed up the button-holes so that he couldn't button his coat. I told him it was not customary to button a dress coat. He pointed to my engraving of Daniel Webster and sarcastically wondered who knew best, Webster or a scrub of a tailor. He then wished to know if I knew of any other man who wore evening dress when engaged in his ordinary vocation. I told him I had heard that there was one such, in the city of Philadelphia, a popular and able lawyer. He then cut the stitches holding his button-holes, buttoned his coat, and remarked, Now there are three of us. And so garbed he spoke his peace when the time came. Mark walked on the stage that night and peered down as if hunting for a missing penny, and then remarked, I was looking for General Nye who had promised to introduce me, but I see nothing of him, and as there are no other generals in town just now we will have to worry along without him. This program declares that a grand piano will be on hand, but as I don't see it and see no grand pianist anyway, I reckon it will have to be dispensed with. The Sandwich Islands are situated 2,700 miles southwest of San Francisco, but why they were placed way out there in the middle of the Pacific Ocean does not become us to inquire. And so he went on, and the shouts of laughter and the bursts of applause were far beyond anything I have ever witnessed. The expense of the lecture was a little over six hundred dollars. The receipts were not quite three hundred dollars. Some twenty-five years later I asked Mark if he remembered the time when he only had seven dollars and wanted to preach in Cooper Union. Seven dollars, he exclaimed, I had seven hundred dollars in gold in old man Leyland's safe at the hotel. You did not tell me that, Mark, I responded. Wow, he drawled. Maybe I didn't bring out the second syllable quite plainly. End of Section 47, October 1, 1911, Utah's War Governor talks of many famous men, read by John Greenman. Section 48 of Mark Twain and the New York Times, Part 6, 1910 through 1919. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain read by John Greenman. October 8, 1911, Mark Twain was mute. Listened and never joked on European travels, says Courier. Special Correspondence The New York Times, London, September 26. Joseph Verre, a courier who claims to have accompanied Mark Twain on nine of his European visits, has been publishing some of his recollections of the author of The Innocence Abroad. Mr. Clemens, says Verre, hardly ever talked to anyone. Once I travelled from Cologne to Dresden with him, and he only spoke about two words to me. What I was instructed to do was to engage the other people in the compartment in conversation and ask them about everything. Mr. Clemens used to sit and listen. He must have had a wonderful memory. We used to go to museums for hours, he would not say a word, but he would listen while I asked questions and engaged people in conversation, and never heard him make a joke, not even with his own family. He never made one with me. The nearest approach that he got to one was in a letter to me about the uncertainty of his plans. He wrote, if's are bad profits. Mark Twain discovered Verre in Paris, through the Hall Porter at the Hotel Normandy, who gave such a glowing account of Verre that Mark determined to have him. George? I must have this Verre, he said. George could not leave his post to go and find him, so Mark Twain said he would put on George's apron and look after the door. End of section 48, October 8, 1911, Mark Twain was mute, read by John Greenman. Section 49 of Mark Twain in the New York Times, Part 6, 1910 through 1919. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain, read by John Greenman. May 8, 1912, Mark Twain Memorial. Tablet designed by New York woman to be put in Hannibal Home. Special to the New York Times. Hannibal, Missouri, May 7. The tablet to be placed in the early home of Mark Twain, which is to be presented to the city on May 15, has been received by George A. Mayan, who will present the home to Hannibal. The tablet bears an inscription telling of its presentation, and below the likeness of the humorist are the words of Mr. Mann. Mark Twain's life teaches that poverty is an incentive rather than a bar, and that any boy, however humble his birth and surroundings, may, by honesty and industry, accomplish great things. A fine photograph of Mark Twain, taken during the last year of his life by Albert Bigelow Payne, and given by the executors of Twain's estate, will also be placed in the house. The committee is now working on the program for the presentation ceremonies. Walter Williams will be the principal speaker. The memorial tablet and bar relief portrait in bronze were designed and modeled by a New York woman, Miss Angelica Shiler Church, the daughter of the late Benjamin Seliman Church of New York. End of Section 49, May 8, 1912, Mark Twain Memorial. Read by John Greenman. Section 50 of Mark Twain in the New York Times, Part 6, 1910 through 1919. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain, read by John Greenman. May 9, 1912, An Inscription in Need of Amendment. Those of us who think that even gravestones, though of course they cannot be expected to take the witness's oath and tell the whole truth, should refrain from telling untruths, and that memorial inscriptions should be equally voracious. We'll regret that one Mayhan, doubtless a most well-intentioned person, has been permitted to engrave on the tablet identifying the birthplace of Mark Twain these highly inaccurate statements. Mark Twain's life teaches that poverty is an incentive, rather than a bar, and that any boy, however humble his birth and surroundings, may by honesty and industry accomplish great things. Properly qualified, which would mean elaborately and at length, and with all terms used in it carefully defined, that statement might pass muster. But, as it stands, it is both irrelevant and false. It is irrelevant because Mr. Clemens never had to endure real poverty, that deprivation of the necessities and decencies of life, which, if long continued, invariably blights both character and career, while his birth and surroundings were not those which involve anything like inferiority or humiliation. He came of good people, people of much intelligence and some education, who looked at all their neighbors with level eyes, and any normal boy would view the conditions in which the humorous philosophers' early days were passed, not with commiseration, but with envy. He himself never even hinted that his boyhood was unhappy or his youth one of hardship. His talents won prompt recognition, and though his afterlife included some hard fights with circumstance, they all ended in victory, what more could a man ask? On the other hand, that any boy with honesty and industry can accomplish great things is true only when great things is taken in a sense quite different from what is meant 99 times out of a hundred when the expression is used. More and much more than honesty and industry is required for the accomplishment of what Mr. Clemens did, and had he had no other qualifications, a memorial tablet would never have marked his birthplace. End of Section 50, May 9, 1912, An Inscription in Need of Amendment, read by John Greenman. Section 51 of Mark Twain in the New York Times, Part 6, 1910 through 1919, this LibriVox recording is in the public domain read by John Greenman. May 16, 1912, Mark Twain Memorial Tablet, special to the New York Times, Hannibal, Missouri, May 15. As a memorial to Hannibal's illustrious Mark Twain, Samuel L. Clemens, the boyhood home of the Great Humorous, located on Hill Street, was presented to the city of Hannibal this afternoon, before several thousand people, by Mr. and Mrs. George A. Mayhem, both of this city. It was in this home where Mark Twain dreamed the fancies that have made all the world happier and where so many of the incidents of Tom Sawyer occurred. All Hannibal did honor to the Great Humorous. The afternoon was declared a holiday and business in general was suspended. A number of visitors attended. A procession of honor headed by the first regiment band, followed by carriages containing city officials and speakers, with citizens and schoolchildren on foot, marched to the home from commercial club headquarters. Among the speakers were Dr. Walter Williams, dean of the School of Journalism, University of Missouri, and the Reverend Dr. Benjamin E. Silesley, Jr., pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, who told of the days when Mark Twain was a boy. Prior to the presentation, Mr. Mayhem read a letter from Albert Bigelow Payne, Twain's biographer. In presenting the home to the city, which was accepted on behalf of the citizens by Mayor C. T. Hayes, Mr. Mayhem said, The boyhood home of Mark Twain has been presented to the city of Hannibal, with the hope and in the full belief that it will be maintained and used as an inspiration to its citizens, to the people of Missouri and of the nation as well. May 16, 1912. Mark Twain Memorial Tablet. Red by John Greenman. Section 52 of Mark Twain in the New York Times, Part 6, 1910 through 1919. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain read by John Greenman. May 23, 1912. Mark Twain's Summer Home Sold. Special to the New York Times. Tarleton, May 22. It was announced today that Dr. Manion, the patent medicine manufacturer, had bought the Charles A. Gardener place at Tarleton. It consists of about forty acres of the choicest land on the hills back of the village, and commands a fine river view. It is assessed at $90,000. It was formerly owned by Mark Twain, who made his summer home there. The sale of the place to John D. Rockefeller has been reported several times. It is expected that Dr. Manion will make his home here. End of Section 52, May 23, 1912. Mark Twain's Summer Home Sold. Red by John Greenman. Section 53 of Mark Twain in the New York Times, Part 6, 1910 through 1919. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain read by John Greenman. May 24, 1912. Mark Twain's Summer Home Not Sold. Special to the New York Times. Tarleton, New York, May 23. Dr. William T. Manion, of Tarleton, New York, was much surprised this morning when he read that the estate of the late Charles A. Gardener, forty acres on the hills back of the village, had been sold to Dr. Manion, the patent medicine manufacturer. There has been no sale. The property is owned by Dr. Manion's wife, who was formerly Mrs. Charles A. Gardener. Mrs. Manion has owned the property since her first husband's death, and she and her husband reside there. The Gardener estate was formerly owned by Mark Twain. End of Section 53, May 24, 1912. Mark Twain's Summer Home Not Sold. Red by John Greenman. Section 54 of Mark Twain in the New York Times Part 6, 1910 through 1919. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain read by John Greenman. May 31, 1912. Mark Twain on Teddy. To the editor of The New York Times. I quote below from a letter written by Mark Twain two days after Colonel Roosevelt left the Presidential Office. The original is held by Walter Bliss Hartford, Connecticut. The article was first printed in the catalogue of Mark Twain's library. It seems very apropos to the present situation. March 6, 1908. Astronomers assure us that the attraction of gravitation on the surface of the sun is 28 times as powerful as is the force at the Earth's surface, and that the object, which weighs 217 pounds elsewhere, would weigh 6,000 pounds there. For seven years this country has lain smothering under a burden like that, the incubus planting in the person of President Roosevelt, the difference between 217 pounds and 6,000. Thanks be, we got rid of this disastrous burden day before yesterday at last. Forever? Probably not. Probably for only a brief breathing spell wherein, under Mr. Taft, we may hope to get back some of our health for years. We may expect to have Mr. Roosevelt sitting on us again with his 28 times the weight of any other presidential burden that a hostile Providence could impose upon us for our sins. Our people have adored this showy charlatan as perhaps no impostor of his brood has been adored since the Golden Calf, so it is to be expected that the nation will want him back again after he is done hunting other wild animals heroically in Africa with the safeguard and advertising equipment of a park of artillery and a brass band BFN, New York, May 28, 1912. End of Section 54, May 31, 1912, Mark Twain on Teddy, read by John Greenman. Section 55 of Mark Twain in the New York Times, Part 6, 1910 through 1919. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain read by John Greenman. July 20, 1912, endows Twain Library. Andrew Carnegie makes the author's memorial self-supporting. The public library founded by the late Samuel L. Clemens, Mark Twain, in Reading, Connecticut, where he spent the latter years of his life, has been endowed by Andrew Carnegie with a fund sufficient to support it. The library is to be known as the Mark Twain Memorial Library. When Mr. Clemens moved to Reading he placed several thousand volumes from his own library in a small vacant chapel and opened it to the public. Just before his death he erected a building for the library as a memorial to his daughter Jean. After the author's death Mrs. Gabrilevich, another daughter, donated the larger part of his remaining library to the collection. The library, up to the present time, has been supported by voluntary contributions. End of Section 55, July 20, 1912. Endows Twain Library. Read by John Greenman.