How to tell a story.--In defence of Harriet Shelley.--Fenimore Cooper's literary offences.--Traveling with a reformer.--Private history of the "Jumping frog" story.--Mental telegraphy again.--What Paul Bourget thinks of us.--A little note to M. Paul Bourget.--The invalid's story.--The captain's story.--Stirring times in Austria.--Concerning the Jews.--From the "London times" of 1904.--At the appetite cure.--In memoriam.--Mark Twain: a biographical sketch.