Robert Louis Stevenson, A Record, An Estimate, A Memorial

by

A.H. Japp

eBooks@Adelaide
2004

Table of Contents

PREFACE

I — INTRODUCTION AND FIRST IMPRESSIONS

II — TREASURE ISLAND AND SOME REMINISCENCES

III — THE CHILD FATHER OF THE MAN

IV — HEREDITY ILLUSTRATED

V — TRAVELS

VI — SOME EARLIER LETTERS

VII — THE VAILIMA LETTERS

VIII — WORK OF LATER YEARS

IX — SOME CHARACTERISTICS

X — A SAMOAN MEMORIAL OF R. L. STEVENSON

XI — MISS STUBBS’ RECORD OF A PILGRIMAGE

XII — HIS GENIUS AND METHODS

XIII — PREACHER AND MYSTIC FABULIST

XIV — STEVENSON AS DRAMATIST

XV — THEORY OF GOOD AND EVIL

XVI — STEVENSON’S GLOOM

XVII — PROOFS OF GROWTH

XVIII — EARLIER DETERMINATIONS AND RESULTS

XIX — EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN’S ESTIMATE

XX — EGOTISTIC ELEMENT AND ITS EFFECTS

XXI — UNITY IN STEVENSON’S STORIES

XXII — PERSONAL CHEERFULNESS AND INVENTED GLOOM

XXIII — EDINBURGH REVIEWERS’ DICTA INAPPLICABLE TO LATER WORK

XXIV — MR HENLEY’S SPITEFUL PERVERSIONS

XXV — MR CHRISTIE MURRAY’S IMPRESSIONS

XXVI — HERO–VILLAINS

XXVII — MR G. MOORE, MR MARRIOTT WATSON AND OTHERS

XXVIII — UNEXPECTED COMBINATIONS

XXIX — LOVE OF VAGABONDS

XXX — LORD ROSEBERY’S CASE

XXXI — MR GOSSE AND MS. OF TREASURE ISLAND

XXXII — STEVENSON PORTRAITS

XXXIII — LAPSES AND ERRORS IN CRITICISM

XXXIV — LETTERS AND POEMS IN TESTIMONY

APPENDIX

FOOTNOTES

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