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He finished 'Tom SawyerAbroad', also a short story, The L 1,000,000 Bank-Note (planned manyyears before), discovered the literary mista Seldom in thehistory of the world have there been such atrocious practices as those ofKing Leopold in the Congo, and Clemens spared nothing in his picture ofthem. The romance of the boy, Will Shakespeare, who hadcome up to London and began, by holding horses outside of the t Finally, with a regular thunder-blast, he seized the cue withboth hands and literally mowed the balls across the table, landing one ortwo of them on the floor.

When the painswere gone he was as bright and cheerful, and, seemingly, as well as ever. One ofMark Twain's friends, Mr. It reads curiously as if it had been written about the present war. It would be hopeless, of course, to attempt to convey in print any idea of this effort, which, by those who heard it, is said to have been a masterpiece of vocalization.