As it is, the list comprises thenames of about all our writers whose works have at present a Europeanmarket, and who are therefore chiefly concerned in this matter. It consists--utterly and entirely--of diversions which he cares next to nothing about here in the earth, yet he is quite sure he will like in heaven. He would have a gamenot only of the English kings, but of the kings of every other nation;likewise of great statesmen, vice-chancellors, churchmen, of celebritiesin every line. It was my intention to drive General Grant into the Pacific--if I could get transportation--and I told Colonel Watterson to surround the Eastern armies and wait till I came.
One of America's foremost painters; at the time of his death he was head of the American Academy of Arts in Rome. Otremba, who had carved the mantel, he sent this word: I am grateful to you for the valued compliment to me in the labor of heart and hand and brain which you have put upon it. Naturally I combat that thought all I can, trying to make him rejoice that he is not seventy . It was in June, 1888, that Yale College conferred upon Samuel Clemens thedegree of Master of Arts.
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