The Complete Works of Artemus Ward [Illustrated]

by Artemus Ward, Charles Farrar Browne, Melville D. Landon (Introduction)

Overview

This edition features
• a linked Table of Contents
• 55 illustrations

CONTENTS
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH by Melville D. Landon

PART I.
ESSAYS, SKETCHES, AND LETTERS.
Mr. Ward's first Business Letter
On "Forts"
The Shakers
High-handed Outrage at Utica
Atlantic Cable Celebration at Baldinsville
Among the Spirits
On the Wing
The Octoroon
Oberlin
The Showman's Courtship
The Crisis
Wax Figures vs. Shakspeare
Among the "Free Lovers"
A Visit to Brigham Young
The Press
Edwin Forrest as Othello
The Show Business and Popular Lectures
Woman's Rights
The Prince of Wales
Ossawatomie Brown
Joy in the House of Ward
Boston. (A. Ward to his Wife.)
How "Old Abe"received the News of his Nomination
Interview with President Lincoln
Interview with Prince Napoleon
Agriculture.
Busts
A Hard Case
Affairs around the Village Green

PART II.
WAR.
The Show is Confiscated.
Thrilling Scenes in Dixie.
Fourth of July Oration
The War Fever in Baldinsville.
A War Meeting.
The Draft in Baldinsville.
Surrender of Cornwallis.
Things in New York.
In Canada.
The Noble Red Man.
Artemus Ward in Richmond.
Artemus Ward to the Prince of Wales.

PART III.
STORIES AND ROMANCES.
Moses the Sassy; or, The Disguised Duke.
Marion: A Romance of the French School.
William Barker, the Young Patriot
A Romance--The Conscript.
A Romance--Only a Mechanic.
Roberto the Rover; A Tale of Sea and Shore.
Red Hand: A Tale of Revenge.
Pyrotechny: A Romance after the French.
A Mormon Romance--Reginald Gloverson.

PART IV.
TO CALIFORNIA AND RETURN.
On the Steamer.
The Isthmus.
Mexico.
California.
Washoe.
Mr. Pepper.
Horace Greeley's Ride to Placerville.
To Reese River.
Great Salt Lake City.
The Mountain Fever.
"I am Here."
Brigham Young.
Hurrah for the Road.
Very Much Married.

PART V.
THE LONDON PUNCH LETTERS.
Arrival in London.
Personal Recollections.
The Green Lion and Oliver Cromwell.
At the Tomb of Shakespeare.
Introduction to the Club.
The Tower of London.
Science and Natural History.
A Visit to the British Museum.

PART VI.
ARTEMUS WARD'S PANORAMA.
Prefactory Note.
The Egyptian Hall Lecture.
Program of the Egyptian Hall Lecture.
Program of the Dodworth Hall Lecture.

PART VII.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Cruise of the Polly Ann.
Betsy-Jain Re-organized.
A. Ward's Autobiography.
The Serenade.
O'Bourcy's "Arrah-na-Pogue."
Artemus Ward among the Fenians.
Artemus Ward in Washington.
Scenes Outside the Fair Grounds.
The Negro Question.
Artemus Ward on Health.
A Fragment--At North Berwick.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013147898
Publisher:	Omnibus Select
Publication date:	07/28/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
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About the Author

About the Author
Excerpt from "Biographical Sketch" by Melville D. Landon
Charles Farrar Browne, better known to the world as "Artemus Ward," was born at Waterford, Oxford County, Maine, on the twenty-sixth of April, 1834, and died of consumption at Southampton, England, on Wednesday, the sixth of March, 1867.

His father, Levi Browne, was a land surveyor, and Justice of the Peace. His mother, Caroline E. Brown, is still living, and is a descendant from Puritan stock.

Mr. Browne's business manager, Mr. Hingston, once asked him about his Puritanic origin, when he replied: "I think we came from Jerusalem, for my father's name was Levi and we had a Moses and a Nathan in the family, but my poor brother's name was Cyrus; so, perhaps, that makes us Persians."

Charles was partially educated at the Waterford school, when family circumstances induced his parents to apprentice him to learn the rudiments of printing in the office of the "Skowhegan Clarion," published some miles to the north of his native village. Here he passed through the dreadful ordeal to which a printer's "devil" is generally subjected. He always kept his temper; and his eccentric boy jokes are even now told by the residents of Skowhegan.

In the spring, after his fifteenth birthday, Charles Browne bade farewell to the "Skowhegan Clarion;" and we next hear of him in the office of the "Carpet-Bag," edited by B.P. Shillaber ("Mrs. Partington"). Lean, lank, but strangely appreciative, young Browne used to "set up" articles from the pens of Charles G. Halpine ("Miles O'Reilly") and John G. Saxe, the poet. Here he wrote his first contribution in a disguised hand, slyly put it into the editorial box, and the next day disguised his pleasure while setting it up himself. The article was a description of a Fourth of July celebration in Skowhegan. The spectacle of the day was a representation of the battle of Yorktown, with G. Washington and General Horace Cornwallis in character. The article pleased Mr. Shillaber, and Mr. Browne, afterwards speaking of it, said: "I went to the theatre that evening, had a good time of it, and thought I was the greatest man in Boston."