Robert Louis Stevenson: A Record, an Estimate, and a Memorial. Alexander H. Japp
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Alexander H. Japp
Robert Louis Stevenson: A Record, an Estimate, and a Memorial
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664589125
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I—INTRODUCTION AND FIRST IMPRESSIONS
CHAPTER II— TREASURE ISLAND AND SOME REMINISCENCES
CHAPTER III—THE CHILD FATHER OF THE MAN
CHAPTER IV—HEREDITY ILLUSTRATED
CHAPTER VI—SOME EARLIER LETTERS
CHAPTER VII—THE VAILIMA LETTERS
CHAPTER VIII—WORK OF LATER YEARS
CHAPTER IX—SOME CHARACTERISTICS
CHAPTER X—A SAMOAN MEMORIAL OF R. L. STEVENSON
CHAPTER XI—MISS STUBBS’ RECORD OF A PILGRIMAGE
CHAPTER XII—HIS GENIUS AND METHODS
CHAPTER XIII—PREACHER AND MYSTIC FABULIST
CHAPTER XIV—STEVENSON AS DRAMATIST
CHAPTER XV—THEORY OF GOOD AND EVIL
CHAPTER XVIII—EARLIER DETERMINATIONS AND RESULTS
CHAPTER XIX—EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN’S ESTIMATE
CHAPTER XX—EGOTISTIC ELEMENT AND ITS EFFECTS
CHAPTER XXI—UNITY IN STEVENSON’S STORIES
CHAPTER XXII—PERSONAL CHEERFULNESS AND INVENTED GLOOM
CHAPTER XXIII—EDINBURGH REVIEWERS’ DICTA INAPPLICABLE TO LATER WORK
CHAPTER XXIV—MR HENLEY’S SPITEFUL PERVERSIONS
CHAPTER XXV—MR CHRISTIE MURRAY’S IMPRESSIONS
CHAPTER XXVII—MR G. MOORE, MR MARRIOTT WATSON AND OTHERS
CHAPTER XXVIII—UNEXPECTED COMBINATIONS
CHAPTER XXIX—LOVE OF VAGABONDS
CHAPTER XXX—LORD ROSEBERY’S CASE
CHAPTER XXXI—MR GOSSE AND MS. OF TREASURE ISLAND
CHAPTER XXXII—STEVENSON PORTRAITS
CHAPTER XXXIII—LAPSES AND ERRORS IN CRITICISM
CHAPTER XXXIV—LETTERS AND POEMS IN TESTIMONY
THE LAND OF STEVENSON, ON AN AFTERNOON’S WALK
PREFACE
A few words may here be allowed me to explain one or two points. First, about the facsimile of last page of Preface to Familiar Studies of Men and Books. Stevenson was in Davos when the greater portion of that work went through the press. He felt so much the disadvantage of being there in the circumstances (both himself and his wife ill) that he begged me to read the proofs of the Preface for him. This illness has record in the letter from him (pp. 28–29). The printers, of course, had directions to send the copy and proofs of the Preface to me. Hence I am able now to give this facsimile.
With regard to the letter at p. 19, of which facsimile is also given, what Stevenson there meant is not the “three last” of that batch, but the three last sent to me before—though that was an error on his part—he only then sent two chapters, making the “eleven chapters now”—sent to me by post.
Another point on which I might have dwelt and illustrated by many instances is this, that though Stevenson was fond of hob-nobbing with all sorts and conditions of men, this desire of wide contact and intercourse has little show in his novels—the ordinary fibre of commonplace human beings not receiving much celebration from him there; another case in which his private bent and sympathies received little illustration in his novels. But the fact