MARK TWAIN.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XV, Issue XXI, 23 November 1895, Page 646

MARK TWAIN.

The public who are the debtors of Mark Twain for the many pleasant hours and the many hearty laughs his books have afforded them, will now have an opportunity of meeting their humorous creditor. That it will be an altogether unique meeting of debtors in the City Hall tomorrow evening goes without saying. Very different from the long faces which meet one’s eye at such conferences will be the broad smile which will light up the Hall. One takes for granted the smile and the accompanying laughter when he looks at the programme for the evening, which is full of matter that in print has never failed to drive away dull care. And if those inimitable productions could do so much in print, what will they not do when we hear them delivered by the man who conceived them? ‘The Jumping Frog,’ • The Innocents Abroad,’ ‘Tom Sawyer,’ ‘The Mississippi Pilot,’ ‘ Hucklebury Finn ’ —what a fund of fun and frolic they suggest; and we may be sure that he who gave these’creations to the world, has much wit and wisdom to impart to us.