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The Calcutta Review July 1911

1911

257 The phrase by the mark twain " was a frequent 4one in the mouths of the linesmen of Mississippi boats owing to the frequent occurrence in the river of shallows and sand banks and it was this specimen of the riv--r vernacular that furnished the humorist with the nom de plume that was before long to be a household word to the nations. [...] They threw as much ceremony into the event as the 'nature of the circumstances would warrant and one of the men is said to have delivered an address touching upon the warm friendship that existed between the local department and the composing room upon their long nights of labour the solace of tobacco and the silken ties that bound all toilers in the great profession of journalism. [...] Through the efforts of General John McComb one of the proprietors of the Cal:fornia Alta the humorist was enabled to form one of the party that sailed in the Quaker City on a pleasure excursion to Europe the Holy Land. [...] To the almost diabolic incongruity of incident is added in Mark Twain an inimitable drollery in the telling that reminds one more perhaps of the jesters of old time than of that sparkling coterie of I'M:pa/cures who though often destitute of any sense of the ludicrous yet pass under the name Of wits But the art of Mark Twain is not the art of the mere buffoon. [...] Under it were established both the Supreme Council and the Supreme Court the one being at the head of the Executive Deparment and the other at the head of the Judicial.
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Pages
122
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-ii unknown view
Art.I.—Mark Twain
255-269 Henry Khundkar view
Art. II.—He Mourned in a Mad-House
270-284 E.W. Madge, K.N. Dhar view
Art. III.—Sir Elijah Impey
285-318 Shumbhoo Dey view
Art. IV.—Ancient Hindu Civilisation Embodted in Sanscrit Sacred Literature
319-327 K.C. Kanjilal view
Art. V.—The Imperial Coronation at Delhi
328-354 A Oriental view
Art. VI.—Our Thackeray
355-366 N.C. Leharry view
Critical Notice
367-370 unknown view
Acknowledgments
371-373 unknown view
Backmatter
i-i unknown view

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