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AND I ROSE TO RECEIVE MY GUEST, AND BRACED MYSELF FOR THE
THUNDERCRASH AND THE BRIMSTONE STENCH WHICH
SHOULD ANNOUNCE HIS ARRIVAL
(_See p. 326_)
EUROPE
AND ELSEWHERE
By
MARK TWAIN
WITH AN APPRECIATION BY
BRANDER MATTHEWS
AND AN INTRODUCTION BY
ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE
HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
Copyright, 1923
By The Mark Twain Company
Printed in the U.S.A.
_First Edition_
E-X
CONTENTS
CHAP. PAGE
AN APPRECIATION vii
INTRODUCTION xxxi
I. A MEMORABLE MIDNIGHT EXPERIENCE 1
II. TWO MARK TWAIN EDITORIALS 14
III. THE TEMPERANCE CRUSADE AND WOMAN'S RIGHTS 24
IV. O'SHAH 31
V. A WONDERFUL PAIR OF SLIPPERS 87
VI. AIX, THE PARADISE OF THE RHEUMATICS 94
VII. MARIENBAD--A HEALTH FACTORY ll3
VIII. DOWN THE RHÔNE 129
IX. THE LOST NAPOLEON 169
X. SOME NATIONAL STUPIDITIES 175
XI. THE CHOLERA EPIDEMIC IN HAMBURG 186
XII. QUEEN VICTORIA'S JUBILEE 193
XIII. LETTERS TO SATAN 2ll
XIV. A WOR…