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Like interdicted England in Mark Twain's tale of the Yankee and King Arthur, Bali was hushed and lifeless. In the village market, bulging a few days before with fruits, vegetables and poultry, counters were bare. Colonel ter Meulen could secure no servants for his headquarters. A dance was scheduled for a U.S. visitor in a village temple; no natives came. Nationalist agitators who had hopped over from Java had not succeeded in converting the Balinese into fire-eating revolutionaries. But fear of the Pemoeda (Javanese extremist Youth Movement) kept the peaceable Balinese from cooperating with the white...
...issues and effort of the Civil War produced the moral writings of Emerson and Thoreau, Walt Whitman's best poetry, Abraham Lincoln's speeches, and Mark Twain's best book (Huckleberry Finn). They also proved that history's greatest democracy was not going the way of democratic Athens, for the war's dead were scarcely settled in their graves when the Robber Barons took over their country. They were able to do so because practically every American intensely admired them, and hoped to be a Robber Baron himself. The result of their enterprise...
Hamlet's Father. Now, Samuel Charles Webster has written this book to clear his father's name. His argument: Twain's bitterness about Manager Webster was a product of his crusty old age; Webster did a fine job, including the skillful publishing and promotion of the century's two literary smash hits (Huckleberry Finn and General Grant's Memoirs). Webster's evidence: Twain's letters, now published in book form, to "Dear Charley"-many of which show great respect for Webster. and all of'which indicate that Webster would have...
...Uncle Sam" (Twain) gave Webster a flying start by putting him in charge of the Kaolatype-a brand-new chalkplate process for engraving illustrations. "This invention," wrote Twain confidently, ". . . will utterly annihilate and sweep out of existence one of the minor industries of civilization. ... I wish to give you $100 of its stock, now, anyhow, & make you Vice President & Treasurer-also Manager. . . . Act fearlessly & with decision...
...Published by the Mark Twain-Webster house, Charles L. Webster...