Essays selected by Robert Hirst, general editor of the Mark Twain Project at the University of California, Berkeley

"Stacks of literary remains" : a note on the text -- Whenever I am about to publish a book -- Frank Fuller and my first New York lecture -- Conversations with Satan -- Jane Austen -- The force of "suggestion" -- The privilege of the grave -- A group of servants -- The quarrel in the strong-box -- Happy memories of the dental chair -- Dr. Van Dyke as a man and as a fisherman -- On postage rates on authors' manuscript -- The missionary in world-politics -- The undertaker's tale -- The music box -- The Grand Prix -- The devil's gate -- The snow-shovelers -- Professor Mahaffy on equality -- Interviewing the interviewer -- An incident -- The jungle discusses man -- I rise to a question of privilege -- Telegraph dog -- The American press -- About Mark Twain