Introduction by Charles Neider - Parts 1 & 2 - Sources - Index of titles - index

Part I : Essays, Sketches, and tales Life as I find it - The facts in the case of the Senate doorkeeper - Female suffrage - Private habits of Horace Greeley - Ye cuban Patriot: A Calm Inspection of Him - Last words of great men - The late reliable contraband - A mystery cleared up - Open letter to commodore Vanderbilt - To the California Pioneers - The wild man interviewed - About smells - The Approaching epidemic - breaking it gently - A couple of sad experience - Curious Relic for sale - A daring Attempt at a solution of it - The European War - Favors from correspondents - A general reply - Goldsmith's friend abroad again - Hogwash - Introductory to Memoranda - A literary "Old Offender" - Map of Paris - A memory - the Noble Red man - Our precious lunatic - The "Present" nuisance - The Reception at the President's - A royal compliment - The "Tournament: in A.D. 1870 - Unburlesquable things - A brace of brief lectures on science - The coming man - Francis Lightfoot lee - The indignity put upon the remains... - One of mankind's bores - The tone Imparting committee - John Camden Hotten - British Benevolence - Foter's case - The curious Republic of Gondour - Duncan of the Quaker City - Ducan once more - The Wandwich Islands - A Boston girl - The omitted chapter of the Prince and the Pauper - On the philosophy of shaving - A tale for struggling young poets - Smoking as inspiration - Woman, God bless her - Ah sin, the Heathen Chinee - On training children - Remarkable Gold Mines - International Copyright - An author's soldiering - American Authors and British Pirates - The Art of composition - A kind hearted druggist - A love song - Talk about twins - James Hammond Trumbull - The Panama Railroad - The pains of lowly life - A defence of General Funston - The yacht races - Letter to Governor Francis - Concerning copyright - The Czar's Soliquy - John Hay and the Ballads - King Leopold's Soliloguy - a visit to the Savage club - The Suppressed Chapter of life on the Mississippi

Part II : Selected Interviews Political views of humorist - Rudyard Kipling on Mark Twain - "Of course I am dying" - Mark Twain says he's dicouraged - Mark Twain, the greates American Humorist, Returning Home, Talks at length to the world - Mark Twain Home, and Anti-Imperialist - My Impressions of America - Mark Twain bearded in his New York den by a camera fiend - Mark Twain would convert Tammany Police - My first vacation and my last - Mark Twain's door open to burglars - Mark Twain would kill bosses by third party - Mark Twain's seventy years - Twain calls Leopold Slayer of 15,000,000 - Mark Twain too lay for United States Senator - Mighty Mark Twain overawes Marines - Mark Twain Tells the secrets of novelists - Mark Twain sales; Shiest man aboard - Mark Twain tells sea tales - Mark Twain home in good humor

"Essays, sketches, tales, and other material, the majority of which is now published in book form for the first time."