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Whosoever will compare it with its predecessors will have no trouble in arriving at that decision. VOLUME III, Part 1: 1900-1907CCXIITHE RETURN OF THE CONQUERORIt would be hard to exaggerate the stir which the newspapers and thepublic generally made over the homecoming of Mark Twain. The manuscript was sent to Beard, who met Clemens a little later in theoffice of Webster & Co. 4 more & 3 little Princes flowed in! Our Princess & her sister, the Archduchess Maria Theresa (mother t