usquash on the Monongahela 154

XXXVII

An Interview with Mark Twain 167

THE CITY OF DREADFUL NIGHT

I

A Real Live City 185

II

The Reflections of a Savage 191

III

The Council of the Gods 199

IV

On the Banks of the Hugli 208

V

With the Calcutta Police 217

VI

The City of Dreadful Night 223

VII

Deeper and Deeper Still 233

VIII

Concerning Lucia 240

AMONG THE RAILWAY FOLK

I

A Railway Settlement 249

II

The Shops 257

III

Vulcan's Forge 266

THE GIRIDIH COAL-FIELDS

I

On the Surface 275

II

In the Depths 284

III

The Perils of the Pits 291

PART II

FROM SEA TO SEA

No. XXV

TELLS HOW I DROPPED INTO POLITICS AND THE TENDERER SENTIMENTS. CONTAINS
A MORAL TREATISE ON AMERICAN MAIDENS AND AN ETHNOLOGICAL ONE ON THE
NEGRO. ENDS WITH A BANQUET AND A TYPE-WRITER.

I have been watching machinery in repose after reading about machinery
in action. An excellent gentleman who bears a name honoured in the
magazines writes, much as Disraeli orated, of "the sublime instincts of
an ancient people," the certainty with which they can be trusted to
manage their own affairs in their own way, and the speed with which they
are making for all sorts of desirable goals. This he called a statement
or purview of American politics. I went almost directly afterwards to a
saloon where gentlemen interested in ward politics nightly congregate.
They were not pretty persons. Some of them were bloated, and they all
swore cheerfully till the heavy gold watch-chains on their fat stomachs
rose and fell again; but they talked over their liquor as men who had
power and unquestioned access to places of trust and profit. The
magazine-writer discussed theories of government;