Table of Contents LOUISA MAY ALCOTT (1832-1888). Street Scenes in Washington.-"Hospital Sketches" 273 SAMUEL L. CLEMENS, "Mark Twain" (1835- ). 276 The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County 284 Acknowledgments Acknowledgments and thanks are gratefully made to the following publishers for permitting the use of selections appearing in this volume: LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD COMPANY, Boston: Selections from "Life and Sayings of Mrs. Partington" and "Partington Patchwork," by B. P. SHILLABER. HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO., Boston: "The OwlCritic," "The Alarmed Skipper," "The Pettibone Lineage," by JAMES T. FIELDS; "The Coquette," "The Stammering Wife," "My Familiar," "Early Rising," "Ego et Echo," "The Little Maid and the Lawyer," "The Briefless Barrister," by JOHN GODFREY SAXE; "A Letter from Mr. Ezekiel Biglow," "The Yankee Recruit," "What Mr. Robinson Thinks," "The Courtin'," "Without and Within," by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL; "My Lord Entertains Two Americans," by RICHARD GRANT WHITE; "My Summer in a Garden," "Plumbers," "How I Killed a Bear," by CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER. G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS, New York: "Living in the Country," "A Family Horse," by FREDERICK S. Cozzens. GEORGE W. DILLINGHAM & CO., New York: "Natral and Unnatral Aristokrats," "The Bumblebee," "To Correspondents," " Marriage," ""The Bizzy Body," "Tight Boots," ‚" "A Hen," "The Gote," by HENRY W. SHAW. |