Tom Sawyer, abroad -- Tom Sawyer, detective -- The stolen white elephant -- Some rambling notes on an idle excursion -- The facts concerning the recent carnival of crime in Connecticut -- About magnanimouse-incident literature -- Punch, brothers, punch -- The great revolution in Pitcairn -- On the decay of the art of lying -- The canvasser's tale -- An encounter with an interviewer -- Paris notes -- Legend of Sagenfeld, in Germany -- Speech on the babies -- Speech on the weather -- Concerning the American language -- Rogers -- The loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence and Rosannah Ethelton -- Map of Paris -- Letter read at a dinner of the Knights of St. Patrick.