Essays on Paul Bourget

by Mark Twain

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The contents of Essays on Paul Bourget, by Mark Twain, list What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us and A Little Note to M. Paul Bourget. The writer says the American joke is reported correctly: in Boston they ask how much he knows, in New York how much he is worth, and in Philadelphia who his parents were.

The writer says the Observer of Peoples has to be a Classifier, a Grouper, a Deducer, a Generalizer, a Psychologizer, and, first and last, a Thinker. The writer asks what the new teacher, representing France, would teach us, and for railroading answers No, since France knows nothing valuable about railroading. A quoted remark says that on the other hand the speaker believes in statistics, and that those on divorces appear to be most conclusive.

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Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He has been praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced", with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature".