Chambers's cyclopaedia of English literature : a history critical and biographical of authors in the English tongue from the earliest times till the present day, with specimens of their writing . tour, had an enormous success, and thenceforwardhis reputation as a humourist was subsequent books include Roughing- It (1872),Tojn Sawyer, A Tramp Abroad, The Prince?and the Pauper, The Adventures of HuckleberryFinn, The Americati Claimant, The £1,000,000Bank-Note, Ptiddnhead Wilson, The Man thatCorrupted Hadleyburg, and A Double-Barrelled Detective Stoty (1902). His share in an unfor
Chambers's cyclopaedia of English literature : a history critical and biographical of authors in the English tongue from the earliest times till the present day, with specimens of their writing . tour, had an enormous success, and thenceforwardhis reputation as a humourist was subsequent books include Roughing- It (1872),Tojn Sawyer, A Tramp Abroad, The Prince?and the Pauper, The Adventures of HuckleberryFinn, The Americati Claimant, The £1,000,000Bank-Note, Ptiddnhead Wilson, The Man thatCorrupted Hadleyburg, and A Double-Barrelled Detective Stoty (1902). His share in an unfor-tunate publishing house drove him to a lecturingtour round the world (1895-96), which enabled himfully to re-establish his fortunes. Mark Twainshumour has secured him a large audience not onlyin America and this country, but also in Germanyand other Continental countries. It is the dry,incisive humour of a shrewd man of the world who,having gone through life with his eyes wide open,has cheered himself by laughing not merely at thefoibles of his fellow-men, but, by implication, at hisown as well. He is not very reverent in his attitudetowards what he considers worn-out survivals of old. SAMUEL LAXGHORXE CLEMENS. From a Photograph by Elliott & Fry. beliefs and superstitions, and sometimes pokes funwithout much discrimination, as in A Yankee atthe Court of King Arthur and Personal Recollec-tions of foan of Arc; but when his humour is, asit generally is, at its best and freshest the resultto his readers is delightful. In Tom Sawyer andHuckleberry Finn, perhaps, Mark Twain showedhis power at its highest point, his humour andpathos developed with consummate ease and forcein a succession of vividly adventurous episodes. Julia Ward Howe, born in 1819 in NewYork, was the daughter of Samuel Ward, and in1843 she married Samuel Gridley Howe, reformerand philanthropist, best known as the teacherof the famous deaf-mute Laura Bridgman. MrsHowe shared many of her husbands labours, notonly as
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