Title: Essays and Sketches
Description: My first lie, and how I got out of it --
The turning-point of my life --
My first literary venture --
My début as a literary person --
Niagara --
Science vs. luck --
The late Benjamin Franklin --
The petrified man --
George Washington's Negro body-servant --
Lionizing murderers --
A new crime --
About barbers --
Running for governor --
A mysterious visit --
Curing a cold --
The bee --
A majestic literary fossil --
At the appetite cure --
My watch --
Mental telegraphy --
Mental telegraphy again --
Concerning tobacco --
Does the race of man love a Lord? A telephonic conversation --
Wit inspirations of the "Two-Year-Olds" --
Concerning the Jews --
Extracts from Adam's diary --
Eve's diary --
Taming the bicycle --
How to make history dates stick --
English as she is taught --
Italian without a master --
Italian with grammar --
The awful German language --
Fenimore Cooper's literary offenses --
William Dean Howells --
Is Shakespeare dead? --
A helpless situation --
The first writing-machines --
A cure for the blues --
A petition to the Queen of England --
Concerning chambermaids --
The portier --
Heidelberg castle --
The college prison --
The German Chicago --
At the shrine of St. Wagner --
About all kinds of ships --
The danger of lying in bed --
My boyhood dreams --
A burlesque biography --
The death of Jean.
Subjects: American Humorous stories, Comedy sketches, Fiction, humorous, general, Fiction, short stories (single author)