"A repository of readings, recitations, and declamations ..."
"A rare collection of oratory, sentiment, eloquence, and humor ..."
Many numbers reprinted by original or later publishers.
Includes pieces by Mark Twain in: no. 5; no. 6 (Mark Twain on juvenile pugelists, p. 118-120); no. 13 (Mark Twain on the weather, p. 159-162); no. 17 (A literary nightmare, p. 95-99, and, Jim Wolfe and the cats, p. 172-174); no. 19 (Mrs. McWilliams and the lightning, p. 51-57). Cf. BAL and Johnson.
Nos. 36-40 published: Philadelphia : Penn Publishing Company.
Editors: Phineas Garrett, N.K. Richardson, C.C. Shoemaker and H.G. Hawn.
BAL 3345, 3350, 3372, 3392.
Johnson, M. de V. Bibl. Mark Twain (Rev.), p. 124, 126.