| | 63 | Author: | Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The American Vandal Abroad  | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | I am to speak of the American Vandal this evening, but I wish to say
in advance that I do not use this term in derision or apply it as a
reproach, but I use it because it is convenient; and duly and properly
modified, it best describes the roving, independent, free-and-easy
character of that class of traveling Americans who are not
elaborately educated, cultivated, and refined, and gilded and filigreed
with the ineffable graces of the first society. The best class of our
countrymen who go abroad keep us well posted about their doings in
foreign lands, but their brethren vandals cannot sing their own praises
or publish their adventures. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 67 | Author: | Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Twain, Mark: Selected Obituaries | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | It will be many a day before the people of the United States forget
Mark Twain, the man. Since far back in the 70's he had been one of our
national celebrities, and perhaps the greatest of the clan, beaming,
expansive and kindly: a star at all great public feasts; the friend of
Presidents and millionaires, of archbishops and actors, welcome
everywhere and always in good humor, a fellow of infinite jest. As the
years passed his picturesque figure grew more and more familiar and
lovable. Every town of any pretensions knew him. He was in ceaseless
motion, making a speech here, taking a degree there, and always dripping
fun. The news that he was to be present was enough to make a success of
anything, from a bacchanal of trust magnates to a convocation of
philologists. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 69 | Author: | Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Sociable Jimmy | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | [I sent the following home in a private letter some
time ago from a certain little village. It was in
the days when I was a public lecturer. I did it because
I wished to preserve the memory of the
most artless, sociable, and exhaustless talker I ever
came across. He did not tell me a single
remarkable thing, or one that was worth remembering;
and yet he was himself so interested in his
small marvels, and they flowed so naturally and comfortably
from his lips that his talk got the
upper hand of my interest, too, and I listened as one who
receives a revelation. I took down what
he had to say, just as he said it—without
altering a word or adding one.] | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 70 | Author: | Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Whittier Birthday Dinner Speech | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THIS is an occasion peculiarly meet for the digging up of pleasant
reminiscences concerning literary folk; therefore I will drop lightly
into history myself. Standing here on the shore of the Atlantic and
contemplating certain of its largest literary billows, I am reminded of
a thing which happened to me thirteen years ago, when I had just
succeeded in stirring up a little Nevadian literary puddle myself, whose
spume-flakes were beginning to blow thinly Californiaward. I started an
inspection tramp through the southern mines of California. I was callow
and conceited, and I resolved to try the virtue of my nom de guerre. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
|
