FOOTNOTES

[1] Professor Charles Warren Stoddard, Professor of English Literature at the Catholic University of Washington, in KATE FIELD’S WASHINGTON.

[2] In his portrait–sketch of his father, Stevenson speaks of him as a “man of somewhat antique strain, and with a blended sternness and softness that was wholly Scottish, and at first sight somewhat bewildering,” as melancholy, and with a keen sense of his unworthiness, yet humorous in company; shrewd and childish; a capital adviser.

[3] INFERNO, Canto XV.

[4] Alas, I never was told that remark — when I saw my friend afterwards there was always too much to talk of else, and I forgot to ask.

[5] Quoted by Hammerton, pp. 2 and 3.

[6] Tusitala, as the reader must know, is the Samoan for Teller of Tales.

[7] WISDOM OF GOETHE, p. 38.

[8] THE FOREIGNER AT HOME, in MEMORIES AND PORTRAITS.

[9] A great deal has been made of the “John Bull element” in De Quincey since his MEMOIR was written by me (see MASSON’S CONDENSATION, p. 95); so now perhaps a little more may be made of the rather conceited Calvinistic Scot element in R. L. Stevenson!

[10] It was Mr George Moore who said this.

[11] FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW, October, 1903.

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