PREFACE
_ PREFATORY NOTE.
Mr. Clemens began to write his autobiography many
years ago, and he continues to add to it day by day. It was his
original intention to permit no publication of his memoirs until
after his death； but, after leaving "Pier No. 70," he concluded
that a considerable portion might now suitably be given to the
public. It is that portion, garnered from the quarter-million of
words already written, which will appear in this REVIEW during the
coming year. No part of the autobiography will be published in book
form during the lifetime of the author.
EDITOR N. A. R.
INTRODUCTION.
I intend that this autobiography shall become a model for all future autobiographies when it is published, after my death, and I also intend that it shall be read and admired a good many centuries because of its form and method--a form and method whereby the past and the present are constantly brought face to face, resulting in contrasts which newly fire up the inter

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