How to tell a story.--In defence of Harriet Shelley.--Fenimore Cooper's literary offences.--Travelling 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.