Word: twain
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...discussing social problems, in a series of essays of which this is the first. Miss Susan N. Carter contributes a paper on "Street Life in Madrid," with several picturesque illustrations. Another of Frank R. Stockton's amusing stories is begun in this number, called "The Merry Chanter." Mark Twain publishes some extracts from his new book, "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court," which have all of his old humor. The new serial is "Friend Olivia," by Mrs. Amelia E. Barr. The history of Abraham Lincoln by Nicolay and Hay is rapidly drawing to a close. The present number...
Amelia E. Barr, Frank R, Stockton, Mark Twain, H. H. Boyesen and many other well known writers will furnish the fiction for the new volume, which is to be unusually strong, including several novels, illustrated novelettes, and short stories. "The Women of the French Salons" are to be described in a brilliant series of illustrated papers. The important discoveries made with the great Lick Telescope at San Francisco (the largest telescope in the world) and the latest explorations relating to prehistoric America (including the famous Serpent Mound, of Ohio) are to be chronicled in The Century...
Every bookseller, postmaster, and subscription agent takes subscriptions to The Century, ($4.00 a year), or remittance may be made directly to the publishers, The Century Co., of New York. Begin new subscriptions with November (the first issue of the volume) and get Mark Twain's story, "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court," in that number...
...good many men are going in to Tremont Temple tonight to hear Mark Twain, Bill Nye, and James Whitcomb Riley...
...stationery department a good assortment of leather goods, including wallets, bill-books, card cases, purses, blacking cases, cuff and collar boxes, music rolls and portfolios. Also an assortment of Mark Twain's adhesive page scrap books, gummed stub files, albums, pocket ink wells and rubber pen holders...