The Sandwich Islands -- Woman -- American vandal abroad -- Jim Wolfe -- Stanley and Livingstone -- London -- Sins of the press -- There is hope for us yet -- Cigars -- Boggs -- New England weather -- The stirring campaign -- Whittier's birthday -- Nineteenth-century progress -- The corpse -- Science of Onanism -- General Grant and the babies -- Innocent plagiarism -- Republican rally -- Speechless -- The art of war -- Visit to Canada -- Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims -- A ragged ramshackle vow -- Advice to youth -- Woman, God bless Her! -- Adam -- Turncoats -- The dead partisan -- Plethora of speeches -- The compositor -- Author and publisher -- An author's soldiering -- Bench shows -- General Grant's English -- A speech for all occasions -- Reforming Yale -- Foolproof scheme -- Foreign critics -- The druggist -- Horrors of the German language -- The Ausgleich -- Statistics -- Masters of oratory -- On being morally perfect -- Playing a par -- Home conditions -- My real self -- Disappearance of literature -- Feeding a dog on its own tail -- New York -- The anti-doughnut party -- Women's rights -- Lincoln's birthday -- Humor -- Progress in medicine -- I have tried to do good -- How to reach seventy -- Lost opportunity -- Jack Van Nostrand -- Private and public morals -- Lying -- The gentleman -- Memories -- New York morals -- The sock -- A wandering address -- Simplified spelling -- Stage fright -- Copyright -- The watermelon -- Affection -- Fourth of July -- Wearing white clothes -- The Begum of Bengal -- Admiral Harrington -- General Miles and the dog -- I was born for a savage -- Caprices of memory -- Jumping to conclusions -- Dr. Clemens, Farmeopath -- Mr. Rogers.