The myth of Providence -- Little Bessie -- Little Nelly tells a story out of her own head -- The Second Advent -- The holy children -- The International Lightning Trust -- Colloquy between a slum child and a moral mentor -- Thoughts of God -- The Emperor-God satire -- The Ten Commandments -- The private secretary''s diary -- In my bitterness -- The victims -- The Synod of Praise -- The lost ear-ring -- Goose fable -- About Asa Hoover.
The dream of brotherhood -- The refuge of the derelicts -- "You''ve been a dam fool, Mary. You always was!" -- Newhouse''s Jew story -- Randall''s Jew story -- Mock marriage -- Concerning "Marytrs'' Day" -- Abner L. Jackson (about to be) deceased.
The nightmare of history -- The secret history of Eddypus, the world-empire -- Eddypus fragment -- History 1,000 years from now -- Passage from "Glances at history" (suppressed.) -- Passage from "Outlines of history" (suppressed.) -- Passage from a lecture -- The stupendous procession -- Flies and Russians -- the fable of the yellow terror -- The recurrent major and minor compliment -- Ancients in modern dress -- A letter from the comet -- Old age.
Appendixes. To the editor of the American Hebrew -- Adam Monument proposal: documents -- Mark Twain''s working notes.