Mark Twain's Speeches

Mark Twain's Speeches by Mark Twain.

Spanning the time between 1872 and the year before he died, this collection of after-dinner speeches, random thoughts to "the press", etc. documents, once again, the truly eclectic mind of Samuel Clemens (Summary by John Greenman)

Total running time: 12:06:23 Read by John Greenman

Chapters:
* Introduction
* Preface
* The Story of a Speech
* Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims
* Compliments and Degrees
* Books, Authors and Hats
* Dedication Speech
* Die Schrecken Der Deuschen 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 Discoveies
* 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
* Tamany and Croker
* Municipal Corruption
* Municipal Government
* China and the Philippines
* Theoretical 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 Mr. 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 Indentity
* Cats and Candy
* Obituary Poetry
* Cigars and Tobacco
* Billiards
* The Union Right and Wrong
* An Ideal French Address
* Statistics
* Galveston Orphan Bazaar
* SanFrancisco 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


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