The next, and last, letter is to Mr. Gosse, dated also only two days
before the writer's death. It acknowledges the dedication "To
Tusitala" of that gentleman's volume of poems, _In Russet and
Silver_, just received.
_Vailima, Samoa, December 1, 1894._
I AM afraid, my dear Weg, that this must be the result of bribery and
corruption! The volume to which the dedication stands as preface seems
to me to stand alone in your work; it is so natural, so personal, so
sincere, so articulate in substance, and what you always were sure
of--so rich in adornment.
Let me speak first of the dedication. I thank you for it from the heart.
It is beautifully said, beautifully and kindly felt; and I should be a
churl indeed if I were not grateful, and an ass if I were not proud. I
remember when Symonds dedicated a book to me; I wrote and told him of
"the pang of gratified vanity" with which I had read it. The pang was
present again, but how much more sober and autumnal--like your volume.
Let me tell you a story, or remind you of a story. In the year of grace
something or other, anything between '76 and '78, I mentioned to you in
my usual autobiographical and inconsiderate manner that I was hard up.
You said promptly that you had a balance at your banker's, and could
make it convenient to let me have a cheque, and I accepted and got the
money--how much was it?--twenty or perhaps thirty pounds? I know
not--but it was a great convenience. The same evening, or the next day,
I fell in conversation (in my usual autobiographical and ... see above)
with a denizen of the Savile Club, name now gone from me, only his
figure and a dim three-quarter view of his face remaining. To him I
mentioned that you had given me a loan, remarking easily that of course
it didn't matter to you. Whereupon he read me a lecture, and told me how
it really stood with you financially. He was pretty serious; fearing, as
I could not help perceiving, that I should take too light a view of the
responsibility and the service (I was always thought too light--the
irresponsible jester--you remember. O, _quantum mutatus ab illo_!) If I
remember rightly, the money was repaid before the end of the week--or,
to be more exact and a trifle pedantic, the se'nnight--but the service
has never been forgotten; and I send you back this piece of ancient
history, _consule Planco_, as a salute for your dedication, and propose
that we should drink the health of the nameless one, who opened my eyes
as to the true nature of what you did for me on that occasion.
But here comes my Amanuensis, so we'll get on more swimmingly now. You
will understand perhaps that what so particularly pleased me in the new
volume, what seems to me to have so personal and original a note, are
the middle-aged pieces in the beginning. The whole of them, I may say,
though I must own an especial liking to--
"I yearn not for the fighting fate,
That holds and hath achieved;
I live to watch and meditate
And dream--and be deceived."
You take the change gallantly. Not I, I must confess. It is all very
well to talk of renunciation, and of course it has to be done. But, for
my part, give me a roaring toothache! I do like to be deceived and to
dream, but I have very little use for either watching or meditation. I
was not born for age. And, curiously enough, I seem to see a contrary
drift in my work from that which is so remarkable in yours. You are
going on sedately travelling through your ages, decently changing with
the years to the proper tune. And here am I, quite out of my true
course, and with nothing in my foolish elderly head but love-stories.
This must repose upon some curious distinction of temperaments. I gather
from a phrase, boldly autobiographical, that you are--well, not
precisely growing thin. Can that be the difference?
It is rather funny that this matter should come up just now, as I am at
present engaged in treating a severe case of middle age in one of my
stories--"The Justice-Clerk." The case is that of a woman, and I think
that I am doing her justice. You will be interested, I believe, to see
the difference in our treatments. _Secreta Vitae_ comes nearer to the
case of my poor Kirstie. Come to think of it, Gosse, I believe the main
distinction is that you have a family growing up around you, and I am a
childless, rather bitter, very clear-eyed, blighted youth. I have, in
fact, lost the path that makes it easy and natural for you to descend
the hill. I am going at it straight. And where I have to go down it is a
precipice.
I must not forget to give you a word of thanks for _An English Village_.
It reminds me strongly of Keats, which is enough to say; and I was
particularly pleased with the petulant sincerity of the concluding
sentiment.
Well, my dear Gosse, here's wishing you all health and prosperity, as
well as to the mistress and the bairns. May you live long, since it
seems as if you would continue to enjoy life. May you write many more
books as good as this one--only there's one thing impossible, you can
never write another dedication that can give the same pleasure to the
vanished
TUSITALA.
FOOTNOTES:
[74] This question is with a view to the adventures of the hero in
_St. Ives_, who according to Stevenson's original plan was to have
been picked up from his foundered balloon by an American privateer.
[75] As to admire _The Black Arrow_.
[76] The suppressed first part of the _Amateur Emigrant_, written in
San Francisco in 1879, which it was proposed now to condense and to
some extent recast for the Edinburgh Edition.
[77] Word omitted in MS.
[78] I may be allowed to quote the following sentence from a letter
of this gentleman written when the news of our friend's death
reached England:--"So great was his power of winning love that
though I knew him for less than a week I could have borne the loss
of many a more intimate friend with less sorrow than Stevenson's.
When I saw him, last Easter, there was no suggestion of failure of
strength. After all I had heard of his delicacy I was astonished at
his vigour. He was up at five, and at work soon after, and at eleven
o'clock at night he was dancing on the floor of the big room while I
played Scotch and Irish reels on the rickety piano. He would talk to
me for hours of home and old friends, but with a wonderful
cheerfulness, knowing himself banished from them for life and yet
brought close to them by love. I confidently counted on his living;
he took keen interest in my own poor work, and it was one of my
ambitions to send him a book some day which would better deserve his
attention."
[79] _Sentimental Tommy_: whose chief likeness to R. L. S. was meant
to be in the literary temperament and passion for the _mot propre_.
[80] A proposed frontispiece for one of the volumes of the Edinburgh
Edition.
[81] _Sic_: query "least"?
[82] Of _The Wrecker_.
[83] _Trieb_, impulse.
[84] It seemed an obvious duty to publish the speech in question
through the English press, as the best proof both of Stevenson's
wise and understanding methods of dealing with his native friends,
and of the affection and authority which he enjoyed among them. I
have reprinted it, as a necessary supplement to this letter, in
Appendix II. at end of the present volume.
[85] Whitrett or Whitrack is Scots for a weasel: why applied to Mr.
Meiklejohn I know not.
APPENDIX I
ACCOUNT OF THE DEATH AND BURIAL OF R. L. STEVENSON, BY LLOYD OSBOURNE
He wrote hard all that morning of the last day; his half-finished book,
_Hermiston_, he judged the best he had ever written, and the sense of
successful effort made him buoyant and happy as nothing else could. In
the afternoon the mail fell to be answered; not business
correspondence--for this was left till later--but replies to the long,
kindly letters of distant friends, received but two days since, and
still bright in memory.
At sunset he came downstairs; rallied his wife about the forebodings she
could not shake off; talked of a lecturing tour to America that he was
eager to make, "as he was now so well," and played a game at cards with
her to drive away her melancholy. He said he was hungry; begged her
assistance to help him make a salad for the evening meal; and to enhance
the little feast, he brought up a bottle of old Burgundy from the
cellar. He was helping his wife on the verandah, and gaily talking, when
suddenly he put both hands to his head, and cried out, "What's that?"
Then he asked quickly, "Do I look strange?" Even as he did so he fell on
his knees beside her. He was helped into the great hall, between his
wife and his body-servant, Sosimo, losing consciousness instantly as he
lay back in the arm-chair that had once been his grandfather's. Little
time was lost in bringing the doctors--Anderson, of the man-of-war, and
his friend Dr. Funk. They looked at him and shook their heads; they
laboured strenuously, and left nothing undone; but he had passed the
bounds of human skill.
The dying man lay back in the chair, breathing heavily, his family about
him frenzied with grief, as they realised all hope was past. The dozen
and more Samoans that formed part of the little clan of which he was
chief sat in a wide semicircle on the floor, their reverent, troubled,
sorrow-stricken faces all fixed upon their dying master. Some knelt on
one knee, to be instantly ready for any command that might be laid upon
them. A narrow bed was brought into the centre of the room, the Master
was gently laid upon it, his head supported by a rest, the gift of
Shelley's son. Slower and slower grew his respiration, wider the
interval between the long, deep breaths. The Rev. Mr. Clarke was now
come, an old and valued friend; he knelt and prayed as the life ebbed
away.
He died at ten minutes past eight on Monday evening the 3rd of December,
in the forty-fifth year of his age.
The great Union Jack that flew over the house was hauled down, and laid
over the body, fit shroud for a loyal Scotsman. He lay in the hall which
was ever his pride, where he had passed the gayest and most delightful
hours of his life, a noble room with open stairway and mullioned
windows. In it were the treasures of his far-off Scottish home: the old
carved furniture, the paintings and busts that had been in his father's
house before him. The Samoans passed in procession beside his bed,
kneeling and kissing his hand, each in turn, before taking their places
for the long night watch beside him. No entreaty could induce them to
retire, to rest themselves for the painful and arduous duties of the
morrow. It would show little love for Tusitala, they said, if they did
not spend their last night beside him. Mournful and silent, they sat in
deep dejection, poor, simple, loyal folk, fulfilling the duty they owed
their chief.
A messenger was despatched to the few chiefs connected with the family,
to announce the tidings and bid them assemble their men on the morrow
for the work there was to do.
Sosimo asked on behalf of the Roman Catholics that they might be allowed
to recite the prayers for the dead. Till midnight the solemn chants
continued, the prolonged, sonorous prayers of the Church of Rome, in
commingled Latin and Samoan. Later still, a chief arrived with his
retainers, bringing a precious mat to wrap about the dead.
He too knelt and kissed the hand of Tusitala, and took his place amid
the sleepless watchers. Another arrived with a fine mat, a man of higher
rank, whose incipient consumption had often troubled the Master.
"Talofa Tusitala!" he said as he drew nigh, and took a long, mournful
look at the face he knew so well. When, later on, he was momentarily
required on some business of the morrow, he bowed reverently before
retiring. "Tofa Tusitala!" he said, "Sleep, Tusitala!"
The morning of the 4th of December broke cool and sunny, a beautiful
day, rare at this season of the year. More fine mats were brought, until
the Union Jack lay nigh concealed beneath them. Among the new-comers was
an old Mataafa chief, one of the builders of the "Road of the Loving
Hearts," a man who had spent many days in prison for participation in
the rebellion. "I am only a poor Samoan, and ignorant," said he, as he
crouched beside the body; "others are rich, and can give Tusitala the
parting presents of rich fine mats; I am poor, and can give nothing this
last day he receives his friends. Yet I am not afraid to come and look
the last time in my friend's face, never to see him more till we meet
with God. Behold! Tusitala is dead; Mataafa is also dead to us. These
two great friends have been taken by God. When Mataafa was taken, who
was our support but Tusitala? We were in prison, and he cared for us. We
were sick, and he made us well. We were hungry, and he fed us. The day
was no longer than his kindness. You are great people and full of love.
Yet who among you is so great as Tusitala? What is your love to his
love? Our clan was Mataafa's clan, for whom I speak this day; therein
was Tusitala also. We mourn them both."
A meeting of chiefs was held to apportion the work and divide the men
into parties. Forty were sent with knives and axes to cut a path up the
steep face of the mountain, and the writer himself led another party to
the summit--men chosen from the immediate family--to dig the grave on a
spot where it was Mr. Stevenson's wish that he should lie. Nothing more
picturesque can be imagined than the narrow ledge that forms the summit
of Vaea, a place no wider than a room, and flat as a table. On either
side the land descends precipitously; in front lies the vast ocean and
the surf-swept reefs; to the right and left green mountains rise,
densely covered with the primeval forest. Two hundred years ago the eyes
of another man turned towards that same peak of Vaea as the spot that
should ultimately receive his war-worn body: Soalu, a famous chief.
All the morning, Samoans were arriving with flowers; few of these were
white, for they have not learned our foreign custom, and the room glowed
with the many colours. There were no strangers on that day, no
acquaintances; those only were called who would deeply feel the loss. At
one o'clock a body of powerful Samoans bore away the coffin, hid beneath
a tattered red ensign that had flown above his vessel in many a corner
of the South Seas. A path so steep and rugged taxed their strength to
the utmost; for not only was the journey difficult in itself, but
extreme care was requisite to carry the coffin shoulder-high.
Half an hour later, the rest of his friends followed. It was a
formidable ascent, and tried them hard. Nineteen Europeans, and some
sixty Samoans, reached the summit. After a short rest, the Rev. W. E.
Clarke read the burial service of the Church of England, interposing a
prayer that Mr. Stevenson had written and had read aloud to his family
only the evening before his death:--
We beseech Thee, Lord, to behold us with favour, folk of many
families and nations, gathered together in the peace of this roof;
weak men and women, subsisting under the covert of Thy patience.
Be patient still; suffer us yet a while longer--with our broken
purposes of good, and our idle endeavours against evil--suffer us a
while longer to endure, and (if it may be) help us to do better.
Bless to us our extraordinary mercies; if the day come when these
must be taken, have us play the man under affliction. Be with our
friends; be with ourselves. Go with each of us to rest; if any awake,
temper to them the dark hours of watching; and when the day returns
to us, our sun and comforter, call us up with morning faces and with
morning hearts--eager to labour--eager to be happy, if happiness
shall be our portion--and if the day be marked for sorrow, strong to
endure it.
We thank Thee and praise Thee; and in the words of Him to whom this
day is sacred, close our oblation.
APPENDIX II
ADDRESS OF R. L. STEVENSON TO THE CHIEFS ON THE OPENING OF THE ROAD OF
GRATITUDE, OCTOBER 1894
Mr. Stevenson said, "We are met together to-day to celebrate an event
and to do honour to certain chiefs, my friends,--Lelei, Mataafa,
Salevao, Poe, Teleso, Tupuola Lotofaga, Tupuola Amaile, Muliaiga, Ifopo,
and Fatialofa. You are all aware in some degree of what has happened.
You know these chiefs to have been prisoners; you perhaps know that
during the term of their confinement I had it in my power to do them
certain favours. One thing some of you cannot know, that they were
immediately repaid by answering attentions. They were liberated by the
new administration; by the King, and the Chief Justice, and the
Ta'its'ifono, who are here amongst us to-day, and to whom we all desire
to tender our renewed and perpetual gratitude for that favour. As soon
as they were free men--owing no man anything--instead of going home to
their own places and families, they came to me; they offered to do this
work for me as a free gift, without hire, without supplies, and I was
tempted at first to refuse their offer. I knew the country to be poor, I
knew famine threatening; I knew their families long disorganised for
want of supervision. Yet I accepted, because I thought the lesson of
that road might be more useful to Samoa than a thousand breadfruit
trees; and because to myself it was an exquisite pleasure to receive
that which was so handsomely offered. It is now done; you have trod it
to-day in coming hither. It has been made for me by chiefs; some of them
old, some sick, all newly delivered from a harassing confinement, and in
spite of weather unusually hot and insalubrious. I have seen these
chiefs labour valiantly with their own hands upon the work, and I have
set up over it, now that it is finished, the name of 'The Road of
Gratitude' (the road of loving hearts) and the names of those that built
it. 'In perpetuam memoriam,' we say, and speak idly. At least so long as
my own life shall be spared, it shall be here perpetuated; partly for my
pleasure and in my gratitude; partly for others; to continually publish
the lesson of this road."
Addressing himself to the chiefs, Mr. Stevenson then said:--
"I will tell you, Chiefs, that, when I saw you working on that road, my
heart grew warm; not with gratitude only, but with hope. It seemed to me
that I read the promise of something good for Samoa: it seemed to me, as
I looked at you, that you were a company of warriors in a battle,
fighting for the defence of our common country against all aggression.
For there is a time to fight, and a time to dig. You Samoans may fight,
you may conquer twenty times, and thirty times, and all will be in vain.
There is but one way to defend Samoa. Hear it before it is too late. It
is to make roads, and gardens, and care for your trees, and sell their
produce wisely, and, in one word, to occupy and use your country. If you
do not, others will."
The speaker then referred to the Parable of the Talents, Matt. xxv.
14-30, and continuing, impressively asked: "What are you doing with your
talent, Samoa? Your three talents, Savaii, Upolu, and Tutuila? Have you
buried it in a napkin? Not Upolu at least. You have rather given it out
to be trodden under feet of swine: and the swine cut down food trees and
burn houses, according to the nature of swine, or of that much worse
animal, foolish man, acting according to his folly. 'Thou knewest that I
reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed.' But God
has both sown and strawed for you here in Samoa; He has given you a rich
soil, a splendid sun, copious rain; all is ready to your hand, half
done. And I repeat to you that thing which is sure: if you do not occupy
and use your country, others will. It will not continue to be yours or
your children's, if you occupy it for nothing. You and your children
will in that case be cast out into outer darkness, where shall be
weeping and gnashing of teeth; for that is the law of God which passeth
not away. I who speak to you have seen these things. I have seen them
with my eyes--these judgments of God. I have seen them in Ireland, and I
have seen them in the mountains of my own country--Scotland--and my
heart was sad. These were a fine people in the past--brave, gay,
faithful, and very much like Samoans, except in one particular, that
they were much wiser and better at that business of fighting of which
you think so much. But the time came to them as it now comes to you, and
it did not find them ready. The messenger came into their villages, and
they did not know him; they were told, as you are told, to use and
occupy their country, and they would not hear. And now you may go
through great tracts of the land and scarce meet a man or a smoking
house, and see nothing but sheep feeding. The other people that I tell
you of have come upon them like a foe in the night, and these are the
other people's sheep who browse upon the foundation of their houses. To
come nearer; and I have seen this judgment in Oahu also. I have ridden
there the whole day along the coast of an island. Hour after hour went
by and I saw the face of no living man except that of the guide who rode
with me. All along that desolate coast, in one bay after another, we
saw, still standing, the churches that have been built by the Hawaiians
of old. There must have been many hundreds, many thousands, dwelling
there in old times, and worshipping God in these now empty churches. For
to-day they were empty; the doors were closed, the villages had
disappeared, the people were dead and gone; only the church stood on
like a tombstone over a grave, in the midst of the white men's sugar
fields. The other people had come and used that country, and the
Hawaiians who occupied it for nothing had been swept away, 'where is
weeping and gnashing of teeth.'
"I do not speak of this lightly, because I love Samoa and her people. I
love the land, I have chosen it to be my home while I live, and my grave
after I am dead; and I love the people, and have chosen them to be my
people to live and die with. And I see that the day is come now of the
great battle; of the great and the last opportunity by which it shall be
decided whether you are to pass away like these other races of which I
have been speaking, or to stand fast and have your children living on
and honouring your memory in the land you received of your fathers.
"The Land Commission and the Chief Justice will soon have ended their
labours. Much of your land will be restored to you, to do what you can
with. Now is the time the messenger is come into your villages to summon
you; the man is come with the measuring rod; the fire is lighted in
which you shall be tried, whether you are gold or dross. Now is the time
for the true champions of Samoa to stand forth. And who is the true
champion of Samoa? It is not the man who blackens his face, and cuts
down trees, and kills pigs and wounded men. It is the man who makes
roads, who plants food trees, who gathers harvests, and is a profitable
servant before the Lord, using and improving that great talent that has
been given him in trust. That is the brave soldier; that is the true
champion; because all things in a country hang together like the links
of the anchor cable, one by another: but the anchor itself is industry.
"There is a friend of most of us, who is far away; not to be forgotten
where I am, where Tupuola is, where Poe Lelei, Mataafa, Solevao, Poe
Teleso, Tupuola Lotofaga, Tupuolo Amaile, Muliaiga, Ifopo, Fatialofa,
Lemusu are. He knew what I am telling you; no man better. He saw the day
was come when Samoa had to walk in a new path, and to be defended not
only with guns and blackened faces, and the noise of men shouting, but
by digging and planting, reaping and sowing. When he was still here
amongst us, he busied himself planting cacao; he was anxious and eager
about agriculture and commerce, and spoke and wrote continually; so that
when we turn our minds to the same matters, we may tell ourselves that
we are still obeying Mataafa. Ua tautala mai pea o ia ua mamao.
"I know that I do not speak to idle or foolish hearers. I speak to those
who are not too proud to work for gratitude. Chiefs! You have worked for
Tusitala, and he thanks you from his heart. In this, I could wish you
could be an example to all Samoa--I wish every chief in these islands
would turn to, and work, and build roads, and sow fields, and plant food
trees, and educate his children and improve his talents--not for love of
Tusitala, but for the love of his brothers, and his children, and the
whole body of generations yet unborn.
"Chiefs! On this road that you have made many feet shall follow. The
Romans were the bravest and greatest of people! mighty men of their
hands, glorious fighters and conquerors. To this day in Europe you may
go through parts of the country where all is marsh and bush, and perhaps
after struggling through a thicket, you shall come forth upon an ancient
road, solid and useful as the day it was made. You shall see men and
women bearing their burdens along that even way, and you may tell
yourself that it was built for them perhaps fifteen hundred years
before,--perhaps before the coming of Christ,--by the Romans. And the
people still remember and bless them for that convenience, and say to
one another, that as the Romans were the bravest men to fight, so they
were the best at building roads.
"Chiefs! Our road is not built to last a thousand years, yet in a sense
it is. When a road is once built, it is a strange thing how it collects
traffic, how every year, as it goes on, more and more people are found
to walk thereon and others are raised up to repair and perpetuate it and
keep it alive; so that perhaps even this road of ours may, from
reparation to reparation, continue to exist and be useful hundreds and
hundreds of years after we are mingled in the dust. And it is my hope
that our far-away descendants may remember and bless those who laboured
for them to-day."
INDEX TO THE LETTERS
[_For short Index to VOLS. I.-XXII., see pp. 509-519._]
"Abbe Coignard" (France), xxv. 409, 410
_Academy, The_, xxiii. _intro._ xvii., 166; contributions to, xxiii.
184, xxv. 364
"Across the Plains," xxv. 123 & _n._ 1, xxv. 207, 224, 301 _n._ 1;
dedication, xxv. 127 & _n._ 1, xxv. 323 & _n._ 1; inception, xxv. 97 &
_n._ 1
"Actor's Wife," projected, xxiii. 308
Adams, Henry, historian, xxv. 4, 29, 41, 43, 45
"Address to the Unco Guid" (Burns), xxiii. 225
"Adela Chart" ("The Marriages," H. James), xxv. 108-9, 110
"Adelaide," song (Beethoven), xxiii. 64
Adirondack Mountains, stay in, xxiv. 234, 306 _et seq._
Admiral Benbow inn (Treasure Island), xxiii. 327
"Admiral Guinea," play (with Henley), xxiii. 327; xxiv. 106, 119, 120,
146, 147; xxv. 447
"Admiral," the (Story of a Lie), xxiii. 248, 249; xxiv. 90
"Adventures of David Balfour," proposed double volume of, xxv. 283,
357, 366
"AEneid," reading of, xxiv. 186, 265, 306
"AEsthetic Letters" (Schiller), xxiv. 71
Ahab, King, xxv. 304
"Ah perfido spergiuro," song, xxiii. 166
_Aitu fafine_, an, xxv. 41, 135
Alabama case, xxiii. 110
"Aladdin" (Pyle), xxv. 164
Alais, visit to, xxiii. 216
"Alan Breck Stewart," ("Catriona" and "Kidnapped"), xxiv. 201, 203,
xxv. 46, 142; letter as from, xxv. 46-8
Alexander, J. W., xxiv. 249, 250; drawing by, of R. L. S., xxiv. 199
Allan Ramsay, Fergusson and Burns, essay on, projected, xxiii. 191,
192, 193
Allen, Grant, ballade by, xxiv. 248
"Amateur Emigrant," xxiii. 235, 237, 239, 240, 244, 252, 254, 255,
259, 260, 265, 266, 267, 277, 352; xxv. 396-7 & _n._ 1, 398, 414, 423
"Amazing Marriage" (Meredith), R. L. S. drawn in, xxv. 344, 390-1
"Amelia Balfour," _see_ Jersey, Countess of
American politics, xxiii. 112
Anderson, Dr., xxv. 457-8
Andrews, Mrs., xxiii. 113
Angelo, Michael, xxiii. 32
Angus, W. Craibe, letters to, xxv. 69, 87, 118
"Annals of the Persecutions in Scotland" (Aikman), xxiii. 18
Anser, xxiii. 22
Anstey, F., xxv. 275
Anstruther, at, xxiii. 12
"Antichrist, L'" (Renan), xxv. 304
"Antiquary, The" (Scott), xxiv. 91
Antwerp, xxiii. 185
Apemama, Gilbert Islands, xxiv. 358
Apia, at, xxiv. 293, 370, 375; xxv. 226; famous hurricane at, xxiv.
345, 346, 369, 371; xxv. 147, 172-3, 174; prisoners at, gratitude
shown by, to R. L. S., xxv. 367 _et seq._
Apiang, Island, xxiv. 358
Apology, difficulty of, xxiii. 133, 134
"Apology for Idlers," xxiii. 203, 204, 205, 207, 210
"Appeal to the Clergy of the Church of Scotland," xxiii. 141, 142
Appin case (Catriona), xxv. 161, 351
Appin country, in, xxiii. 284
Appin Murder, xxiii. 284, 331, 332; xxv. 161, 351
Appleton, Dr., xxiii. _intro._ xvii. 143, 144, 168, 178
"Arblaster" (Black Arrow), xxiii. _intro._ xx.
Arbroath, Abbot of, xxiii. 29
Archer, Thomas, letter to, xxiv. 305
Archer, William, xxiv. 105, 161, 214; letters to, xxiv. 147, 156, 161,
163, 247, 270, 272, 273, xxv. 384
Archer, William and Thomas, letter to, xxiv. 300
Areia, chief, xxiv. 315
Arnold, Matthew, xxiii. 15
Arthur's Seat, xxiii. 71
Artist, the, problem of, xxv. 378-9
"Art of Literature," projected, xxiii. 342
"Art of Virtue," xxiii. 265
Asceticism and Christianity, xxiii. 213
Assurance of Faith, xxiii. 299,300
"As You Like It" (Shakespeare), xxiv. 96
_Atalanta_, magazine, contributions to, xxv. 279 & _n._ 1, 283
_Athenaeum_, xxiii. 239
"At Last" (Kingsley), xxiv. 101
"Attwater" (Ebb Tide), xxv. 301, 307, 350, 382
Atua, bombardment of, xxv. 424, 426
Auckland, visits to, xxv. 30, 34; xxv. 290, 291, 292
"Auld Licht Idylls" (Barrie), xxv. 264
"Auntie's Skirts" (Child's Garden of Verse), xxiii. 223
Aurevilly, Barbey d', works of, xxiv. 83; xxv. 174, 314, 379
"Ausfuerliche Erklarung der Hogarthischen Kupferstiche" (Lichtenberg),
xxiii. 178
"Autolycus at Court," xxiii. 170
"Autumn Effect, An," xxiii. 155, 166; xxv. 397-8
Autun, xxiii. 216, 219
Avignon, at, xxiii. 77
Ayrshire and Galloway, walking tour in, xxiii. 182, 202
Babington, Mrs. Churchill, xxiii. 54; letter to, xxiii. 30
Babington, Professor Churchill, xxiii. 30, 54; xxiv. 130
Bacon, Sir F., on Time, xxiii. 81
Baildon, H. B., xxv. 56; letters to, xxv. 56, 377, 381
Baker, Mrs. A., letters to, xxv. 366, 413
Baker, Shirley, of Tonga, xxv. 40, 44
Baker, Sir Samuel, xxv. 175
Bakewell, Dr., letter to, xxv. 424
Balfour, Dr. George, xxiii. 330
Balfour, Graham, xxv. 221, 251 & _n._ 1, 292, 339, 348, 351, 355, 363,
406, 416; "Life" of R. L. S., by, xxiii. _intro._ xix.; at Vailima,
xxv. 144, 374, 401, 403
Balfour, James, xxiii. 4
Balfour, Miss Jane, letter to, xxiii. 223
Balfour, Mr., of the Shaws, xxv. 47
Balfour, Mrs. Lewis, xxiii. 4, 5
Balfour of Burley (Old Mortality), xxiii. 130
Balfour, Rev. Lewis, xxiii. 4
"Balfour's Letters," xxv. 293
"Ballade in Hot Weather" (Henley), xxiv. 248
"Ballades, Rondeaus, etc." (collected by Gleeson White), xxiv. 248
"Ballads," xxiv. 380; xxv. 34, 53, 57, 73
Ballantyne, R., xxiii. _intro._ xxiii.
Balzac, xxv. 154; on literary frenzy, xxiii. 173; style of, xxiv. 60
Bamford, Dr. W., xxiii. 271; letter to, xxiii. 272
"Barbara" (Catriona), xxv. 294-5
Barbizon, visits to, xxiii. 174 _et seq._, 183
Barmouth, visits to, xxiii. 124, 146
"Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities" (Billing), xxiv. 270
"Barrack Room Ballads" (Kipling), xxv. 48
"Barrel Organ," xxiii. 171
Barrie, J. M., appreciation, xxv. 276-7: letters to, xxv. 154, 264,
276, 362, 416
Barrie, Mrs. (Margaret Ogilvie), xxv. 417
Bartholomew, Messrs., xxv. 177
Basin, Thomas, xxiii. 203 & _n._ 1
Basselin, Olivier, poems by, xxiii. 193
Bass Rock, xxiii. 207
Bates, --, xxiii. 89
Bates, Edward Hugh Higlee, xxv. 384
Bates, E. M. G., xxv. 384
Bates, J. H., letter to, xxv. 384
Bathgate, the inn maid at, xxiii. 226, 227
"Bauble Shop," play (H. A. Jones), xxv. 385
Baudelaire, --, xxiii. 160, 195
Baxter, Charles, xxiii. 3, 159, 174, 285, 336, 341, 353, 356; xxiv.
14, 47, 79; xxv. 174, 240, 266, 273, 306, 357; letters to, xxiii. 33,
34, 46, 49, 52, 92, 193, 217, 262, 285, 336, 341; xxiv. 14, 121, 122,
200, 251, 260, 268, 286, 294, 296, 301, 303, 322, 327, 343, 344, 369,
375, 384, 392; xxv. 53, 82, 120, 177. 213, 270, 278, 288, 292, 337,
345, 360, 376, 392, 394, 433; literary agency of, xxiv. 252; scheme
of, for "Edinburgh Edition," xxv. 372 & _n._ 1, 373
Baxter, Edmund, xxiv. 394; xxv. 54; death of, xxv. 433
Baynes, Professor Spencer, editor "Encyclopaedia Britannica," xxiii,
202
"Beachcombers" (with Lloyd Osbourne), xxiv. 361
"Beach de Mar," projected xxv. 187
"Beach of Falesa," xxv. 5, 20, 25, 76, 97, 102, 103 & _n._ 1, 120,
122, 131, 138, 147, 152, 221, 224, 235-6, & _n._ 1, 239, 240, 250,
266, 272, 274, 284; illustrations to, xxv. 253-4, 288; marriage
contract in, xxv. 187 & _n._ 1; publication, xxv. 1.
"Beau Austin," play (with Henley), xxiv. 106
Becker, Consul, xxv. 139, 141, 268
"Becket" (Tennyson), xxv. 385
"Bedtime" projected, xxiv. 99
"Beggars" (_Scribner's_), xxiv. 235, 253; xxv. 97, 209, 301
Bell Rock, book on, xxiv. 78; xxv. 322; controversy on, xxiv. 121
Bell, the, in the Vailima woods, xxv. 277
Ben More, xxiii. 318
Bennet, Dr., xxiii. 84, 101
Bentley, publisher, xxiii. 336, 339, 346
Beranger, article on, xxiii. 186, 191, 193
Bereavement, xxiv. 52
Berlin Convention, xxv. 6
Berlioz, paper on (Henley), xxiii. 318
"Bete Humaine" (Zola), xxiv. 396; xxv. 319
"Betteredge" (Moonstone), xxiii. 18
Bickford, Captain, R.N., C.M.G., xxv. 334, 351
Bitter Creek, xxiii. 234
_Black and White_, contributions to, xxiii. 286, 337, 341
"Black Arrow," xxiv. 5, 31, 56, 247, 376, 385 & _n._ 1; serial issue,
xxiv. 55; success, xxiv. 68; suggested French version, xxiv. 398
"Black Canyon" (L. Osbourne), xxiii. 347, 348, 349
Blackie, Professor, xxiii. 28, 30, 306
Blacklock, Consul, xxv. 142
"Black Man," xxiii. 308
_Blackwood's Magazine_, xxiv. 370
Blair of Blairmyle (_see_ "Young Chevalier"), xxv. 216
"Blanche Amory" (Thackeray), xxiv. 212
"Bloody Wedding," projected, xxv. 66, 97
Board of Trade Offices, xxiv. 87
Boccaccio, xxv. 301
"Body Snatchers," xxiii. 308, 316, 321; xxiv. 125, 130; xxv. 397
"Bondage of Brandon" (Hemming), xxiii. 333
"Bondman, The" (Hall Caine), xxiv. 396-7
Boodle, Miss Adelaide, xxiv. 375; letters to, xxiv. 231, 259, 267,
284, 297, 339, 401; xxv. 80, 147, 217, 243, 248, 410
"Book, A, of Stories," projected contents, xxiii. 171
"Book of Verses" (Henley), xxv. 121
_Book Reader_, notice of "Prince Otto," xxiv. 195
Books wanted, xxiii. 36, 332; xxiv. 78, 101, 130, 134, 270, 274, 338;
xxv. 111, 112, 174, 215, 271, 287, 293, 346, 361, 392
Boswell, James, xxiii. 193, 203, 295
"Bottle Imp," xxiv. 292; xxv. 272, 284, 340; Samoan translation, xxv.
64 & _n._ 1
Bough, Sam, painter, xxiii. 24, 26-30; xxiv. 60
Bourget, Paul, xxv. 130-2, 315, 323
Bourke, Captain, R.N., xxv. 263
Bournemouth, at, xxiv. 104 _et seq._; xxv. 111
"Bouroche, Major" (Debacle), xxv. 250
Braemar, at, xxiii. 282, 313, 320
Braille, books by R. L. S., to be issued in, xxv. 366, 413
Brandeis, xxv. 141
"Brashiana," burlesque sonnets, xxiii. 283; xxiv. 14, 38, 39
Brash, the publican, xxiii. 336; xxiv. 14
Braxfield (Weir of Hermiston), xxv. 260 & _n._ 1, 264-5; portrait of,
xxv. 453
Bridge of Allan, at, xxiii. 33, 174
British Museum, visits to, xxiv. 105, 107, 186-7, 202, 229, 365
Bronson, --, editor, xxiii. 240
Brooke, Rajah, xxv. 129
Brown, --, xxiv. 230
Brown, Dr. John, verses to, xxiii. 296, 297
Brown, Horatio F., xxiii. 303, 304; letters to, xxiii. 303, 304
Brown, Mrs., xxiii. 13
Brown, Rev. Dr., xxv. 312
Brown R. Glasgow (editor of _London_), xxiii. 184, 251; illness,
xxiii. 214 & _n._ 1
Browne, Gordon, xxv. 301, 305; letter to, xxv. 252
Browning, Robert, xxiv. 107, 202; book on, by Gosse, xxv. 74
Bruce, Michael, xxiii. 71
Bruno, Father, xxiv. 312, 334
Brussels, at, xxiii. 36
Buckinghamshire, walking tour in, xxiii. 124, 155
Buckle, Mrs., xxiv. 176
"Bucolics" (Virgil), xxiii. 18
"Bummkopf" (typical pedant), xxiii. 225
Bunner, --, xxiv. 64, 154
Bunting, --, xxiv. 227
Bunyan, John, xxiv. 29; essay on, xxiii. 334; xxv. 398
Burford Bridge, visit to, xxiii. 183
Burial customs, Gilbert Islanders', xxiv. 400-1
Burke, Edmund, xxiii. 71
Burlingame, E. L., editor of _Scribner's Magazine_, xxiv. 233; xxv. 6,
138; letters to, xxiv. 253-4, 269, 273-4, 319, 338, 367, 376, 387,
394, xxv. 24, 32, 86, 110, 128, 145, 174, 210, 215, 257, 266
Burne-Jones, Sir Edward, xxiii. 224; xxiv. 101, 107, 202; xxv. 394
Burney, "Admiral," R.N., xxv. 394
Burn, Miss, xxiv. 89
Burns Exhibition, Glasgow, xxv. 69, 87 _et seq._
Burns, Robert, xxiii. _intro._ xxiii.; xxv. 69, 70, 88, 395-6;
articles and writings on, xxiii. 111, 151, 179, 191, 192, 193, 202,
203, 224, 226, 237, 241, 245, 250, 263, 273, 358, xxiv. 63; house of,
Dumfries, xxiii. 66; judgment on, xxiii. 224; poems of, xxiii. 4,
xxiv. 256
Burt, xxiii. 298
_Bussard_, the ship, xxv. 425
Butaritari, Gilbert Islands, xxiv. 358
"But still our hearts are true" (Eglinton), xxv. 69, 70
"But yet the Lord that is on high" (Scotch Psalter), xxiii. 23
"By Proxy" (Payn), xxiv. 7
Byron, Lord, xxiii. 132; essay on (Henley), xxiii. 318; xxiv. 7
Caldecott, Randolph, xxiii. 248, 267
California, visit to, xxiii. 228
Calistoga, at, xxiii. 277
Calton Hill (Picturesque Notes on Edinburgh), xxiii. 216
Calvin, John, studies in, xxiii. 126
Cambridge, visits to, xxiii. 219; xxiv. 105
Cameron, Captain, xxiv. 349, 350
Campagne Defli, at, xxiv. 4, 8 _et seq._
Campbell of Glenure, murder of, xxiii. 284, 331, 332
Campbell, Rev. Professor Lewis, xxiii. 278, 316; letter to, xxiv. 113
"Canadian Boat Song" (Earl of Eglinton), xxv. 69, 70
Candlish, Dr., xxiv. 63
"Cannon Mills," projected, xxiv. 403
Canoe Journey in France (_see_ Inland Voyage), xxiii. 204
"Canoe, The, Speaks" (Underwoods), xxiv. 89, 231
"Canterbury Pilgrimage" (Chaucer), illustrated, gift of, xxiv. 149
"Capitaine Fracasse, Le" (Theophile Gautier), xxiii. 75
Cap Martin, xxiii. _intro._ xxxiv., 93, 114
"Captain Singleton" (Defoe), xxiv. 101, 102
Carlyle, Thomas, xxiii. 302; xxiv. 135; appreciation of, xxiii. 301,
302; on Coleridge, xxiii. 220
"Carmosine" (Musset), xxiv. 97
Carrington, C. Howard, letter to, xxiv. 152
Carr, T. Comyns, xxiv. 68
Carruthers, --, xxv. 40
Carson, Mrs., xxiii. 252
"Carthew" (Wrecker), xxv. 112 & _n._ 1
"Casamassima" (H. James), xxiv. 263
_Casco_, schooner, cruise in, xxiv. 234, 287 _et seq._, 290-1, 300,
305, 310, 312-3, 316 _et seq._, 325 _et seq._
"Case Bottle," xxiii. 281
"Cashel Byron's Profession" (Shaw), xxiv. 270-1
"Casparidea," unpublished, xxiii. 283
"Cassandra" (Mrs. R. L. Stevenson), xxiv. 22
Cassell and Co., xxiv. 110, 127; xxv. 57, 110, 124, 272, 283
"Catriona" (at first called "David Balfour," _q.v._), xxiii. _intro._
xxiii., 331; xxiv. 190, 402; xxv. 108, 144, 155, 158 & _n._ 1, 160-1,
163, 166-7, 172, 187, 192, 201-2, 211, 215, 240, 250, 264, 274, 283,
290, 298, 301, 305, 310, 316, 344, 351 & _n._ 1, 352, 378; in Braille,
xxv. 366; characters in, xxv. 216; draft of, xxv. 162; maps for, xxv.
177-8; "my high-water mark," xxv. 393 (but _see_ 379); projected
illustrations, xxv. 349 _n._ 1; replies to remarks on, xxv. 294 _et
seq._; restraint of description in, xxv. 367
Cavalier (de Sonne), xxiii. 307
Cavalier, Jean, xxiii. 306, 307
"Cavalier," The (G. P. R. James), xxiv. 274
Cedercrantz, Conrad, Chief Justice of Samoa, xxv. 7, 13, 48-9, 67,
95-6, 98-100, 102, 124-5, 175, 188, 239, 256, 275, 278, 281, 286, 305,
364, 376, 380-1
Celtic blood in Britain, xxv. 379
_Century Magazine_, xxiv. 26, 30, 55, 90, 171; article in, by H.
James, on R. L. S., xxiv. 250-1; contributions to, xxiii. 338, xxiv.
55, 170, 171, 185; critical notice in, of R. L. S., xxiv. 63, 64
Cevennes, the tramp in (_see_ "Travels with a Donkey"), xxiii. 183
Ceylon, projected visit, xxv. 98
Chair of History and Constitutional Law, Edinburgh University,
candidature for, xxiii. 282, 309 _et seq._, 331, 335, 336
Chalmers, Rev. J., xxv. 30, 33, 39, 56-7
"Chapter of Artistic History," suggested title for proposed book by
Henley, xxiii. 318
"Chapter on Dreams" (_Scribner's_), xxiv. 235; xxv. 97
"Character of Dogs" (_English Illustrated_), xxiv. 67; xxv. 41 _n._ 2
"Charity Bazaar," xxv. 398
Charles of Orleans, paper on, xxiii. 182, 191, 192, 202, 203, 204
"Charlotte" (Sorrows of Werther), xxiii. 60, 61
Charteris, Rev. Dr., xxiv. 276; letters to, xxiv. 276, 279
Chastity, xxiii. 338, 360
Chateaubriand (Sainte-Beuve), xxiii. 78
Chatto, Andrew, letter to, xxiv. 110
Chatto and Windus, publishers, xxiii. 335; xxiv. 110; xxv. 395; letter
to, xxiv. 231
Chepmell, Dr., xxiv. 242
Chester visited, xxiii. 145, 146
"Chevalier Des Touches" (d'Aurevilly), xxv. 174, 314, 380
Chicago Exhibition, xxv. 379
Children, feelings towards, xxiii. 99, 101, 147, 171
Children in the [Kilburn] Cellar (_see also_ Boodle), letter to, xxv.
243
"Child's Garden of Verse," xxiii. 282; xxiv. 5, 17 _et seq._, 24, 54,
55, 70, 99 _et seq._, 106, 116, 154; xxv. 385; dedication, xxiv. 16,
19, 27, 92; illustrations, xxiv. 18 _et seq._, 32, 115; publication,
xxiv. 138, 140; reviews, xxiv. 147
"Child's Play," xxiv. 70; xxv. 301
Chiltern Hills, visited, xxiii. 155
"Choice of Books" (F. Harrison), xxv. 113
Christianity and Asceticism, xxiii. 213
Christmas Books (Dickens), xxiii. 148
Christmas Day at Vailima, xxv. 40-1
"Christmas Sermon," xxv. 123 _n._ 1
Christ's Hospital, xxiv. 206, 207
Chrystal, Professor, xxiv. 118
"Cimourdain" (Quatre-vingt Treize, by Hugo), xxiii. 130 _n._ 1
"Clarissa Harlowe" (Richardson), xxiii. 210
Clarke, Mrs. W. E., xxv. 26
Clark, R. & R., printers, xxv. 124
Clark, Rev. W. E., missionary, xxiv. 371; xxv. 10, 11 & _n._ 1, 26,
30, 64 _n._ 1, 101; xxv. 203, 236, 329, 330, 422, 458, 460
Clark, Sir Andrew, xxiii. 55, 77, 84
Claxton, missionary, xxv. 64
Clinton, --, xxiii. 332, 333
Clouds, descriptions of, xxv. 178-9
Club, at Vailima, xxv. 168, 170, 176
Clytie, bust of, xxiii. 170
Cockfield Rectory, xxiii. 276; at, xxiii. 54, 56
"Coggie," _see_ Ferrier, Miss
Coleridge, S. T., xxiii. 220
Colinton, manse of, xxiii. 5
"Collected Essays" (Huxley), xxiv. 219
Collins, Wilkie, xxiii. 238
"Colonel Jack" (Defoe), xxiv. 101, 103
Colorado, xxiv. 110 _et seq._, 229 _et seq._, 234
Colvin, Lady (_see also_ Sitwell, Mrs.), xxiii. 54
Colvin, Sir Sidney, xxiii. 88, 91, 93, 94 _et seq._, 116, 117, 152;
xxiv. 13, 47, 133, 191, 210, 216, 278, 323, 343, 396; choice of, for
literary executor, xxiii. _intro._ xviii.; introduction of Eeles to,
xxv. 452; letters to (_see_ especially xxv. 5), xxiii. 75, 76, 105,
106, 108, 124, 127, 129, 140, 141, 143, 157, 167, 169, 173, 178, 186,
191, 195, 196, 201, 202, 206, 211, 212, 225, 230, 232, 234, 235, 241,
244, 247, 251, 253, 258, 267, 269, 272, 273, 274, 276, 284, 291, 297,
300, 308, 310, 316, 320, 339, 349; xxiv. 15, 33, 55, 69, 81, 98, 99,
101, 134, 136, 137, 186, 189, 192, 210, 219, 227, 235-6, 238, 264,
265, 275, 283, 285, 293, 295, 298, 316, 329, 336, 353, 357, 362, 385;
xxv. 9, 25, 34, 48, 54, 58, 66, 76, 83, 90, 94, 102, 112, 121, 132,
152, 156, 166, 178, 193, 211, 221, 230, 249, 258, 271, 282, 289, 291,
294, 299, 310, 324, 338, 347, 352, 367, 380, 382, 387, 396, 404, 414,
422, 430, 441 (the last), 448; letters to, from Mrs. R. L. Stevenson,
xxiv. 308, 347; portraits of, xxv. 78-9, 80 & _n._ 1, 83-5, 94, 100;
testimonial from, xxiii. 316
"Come back" (Clough), xxiii. 294
Comines, Philippe de, xxiii. 193
Commissioners of Northern Lights, yacht of, xxv. 98 & _n._ 1
"Comtesse d'Escarbaguas" (Moliere), xxiv. 123
"Comtesse de Rudolstadt" (Sand), xxiii. 135
"Confessions" (St. Augustine), xxiv. 82-3
Congdon, L. C., xxv. 384
Conrad, Joseph, xxv. 76
"Consuelo" (Sand), xxiii. 87, 135
Consulship, xxv. 208 & _n._ 1
_Contemporary Review_, contributions to, xxiv. 143, 181, 227; xxv. 398
Cook's "Voyages," xxv. 346
"Coolin," Skye terrier, xxiv. 201
Coquelin, xxiii. 276
_Cornhill Magazine_, xxiii. _intro._ xvii.; xxiv. 355; contributions
to, xxiii. 56, 104, 125, 129, 180, 184, 191, 201, 203, 204, 205, 206,
208, 210, 211, 224, 237, 238, 256, 258, 264, 281, 341, 352, 355; xxiv.
90; xxv. 397; Henley's "Hospital" poems in, xxiii. 174 _n._ 1, 176
Cornwall, Barry, xxv. 29 _n._ 2
Cornwall, impressions of, xxiii. 207
"Correspondence" (Wodrow's), xxiii. 291
Corsica, glimpse of, xxiii. 108
"Country Dance," xxiii. 171, 172
"Country Wife" (Wycherley), Lamb's essay on, xxiv. 87
Covenanters, xxiii. 65, 67; rhyming by, xxv. 363
Craig, --, xxiii. 25
Cramond, xxiii. 61
"Cramond" and other cousins, xxiv. 44
Crane, Walter, xxiii. 212; xxiv. 32
"Crashaw," essay (Gosse), xxiii. 291
"Crime inconnu" (Mery), xxiii. 258
"Crime, Le, et le Chatiment" (Dostoieffsky), xxiv. 182 _n._ 1, 183
"Criminal Trials" (Arnott), xxiii. 332
"Critical Kitcats" (Gosse), xxiv. 235
_Critic, The_, notice in, xxiv. 64
Crockett, S. R., xxv. 349 & _n._ 2, 403; letters to, xxiv. 280; xxv.
305
Crosse, Henry, sculptor, xxv. 383
Cumming, Miss Gordon, xxiv. 308
Cummy (_see_ Cunningham)
Cunningham, Alison, xxiii. 5, 69, xxiv. 100; letters to, xxiii. 32,
340; xxiv. 16, 17, 44, 167, 196, 200, 202, 204, 220; xxv. 359, 445
_Curacoa_, H.M.S., xxv. 189, 202, 234, 267 _et seq._, 416, 425;
officers of, xxv. 374, 389, 405-9, 414, 447, 450; petty officers'
ball, xxv. 414-5
"Curate of Anstruther's Bottle," xxiii. 108, 109, 170
Curtin, Jeremiah, widow and daughters of, xxiv. 108, 222
Cusack-Smith, Sir Berry, xxv. 334
Dalgleish, Dr. Scott, and the Ballantyne Memorial, xxv. 393
Damien, Father, xxiv. 291-2, 349, 354, 356; letter on, xxiv. 383-4,
391 _n._ 1, 404; xxv. 124
"Damned Ones of the Indies" (Joseph Mery), xxiii. 258
Damon, Rev. F., xxiv. 383
"Dance of Death" (Rowlandson's), xxv. 292-3
Dancing Children (Notes on the Movements of Young Children), xxv.
397-8
"Daniel Deronda" (George Eliot), xxiii. 210
Darien affair, books on, wanted, xxv. 361
Darwin, Charles, xxiii. 57, 122
David Balfour, character, xxv. 155, 189-90
"David Balfour" (title first given both to "Kidnapped" and "Catriona,"
_q.v._), xxiv. 179, 190-1, 196, 201, 204; xxv. 108, 144, 158 & _n._ 1,
160, 161-2, 163, 167, 172, 177, 279, 283, 313, 316, 351, 366, 379;
"Catriona" issued as, in serial form, xxv. 294; historical
introduction planned, xxv. 376; unfinished, xxiv. 402
Davis, Dr., of Savaii, xxv. 32
Davos, visits to, xxiii. _intro._ xxxiv., 280 _et seq._, 331 _et
seq._; papers on (_Pall Mall Gazette_), xxiii. 281, 347
"Dawn of the Century" (Ashton), xxv. 392
"Day after To-morrow" (_Contemporary_), xxv. 398
"Deacon Brodie," play (with Henley), xxiii. 185, 257; xxiv. 119, 230,
248; production, xxiv. 99, 102, 261
"Dead Man's Letter," projected, xxiii. 249, 308
Deans, Jeanie, xxiii. 65
"Death in the Pot," projected, xxv. 314 & _n._ 1
Death, thoughts on, xxiii. 136, 275, 276; xxiv. 58, 162, 183, 227
"Debacle" (Zola), xxv. 250 & _n._ 1, 318, 319, 379
Deborah and Barak, fancies on, xxiii. 154, 155
"Decisions of the Lords of Council" (Fountainhall), xxv. 293, 336, 360
"Defence of Idlers" (_see_ "Apology for Idlers")
Defoe, Daniel, works of, xxiv. 101, 103
"Delafield," xxiii. 350; xxv. 55-6 _n._ 1
"Delhi," and other cousins, xxiv. 44
de Mattos, Mrs., letters to, xxiii. 199; xxiv. 152, 167
"Demi-Monde" (Dumas _fils_), scene in, xxiv. 273
Depression, xxiii. 199, 200
De Quincey, Thomas, biography of (Japp), xxiii. 321
"Derniere Aldini, La," xxiv. 97
Desborough, Mrs., xxiv. 177
Descamps, Maxime, xxiv. 405
"Descent of Man" (Darwin), xxiii. 57
des Ursins, Juvenal, xxiii. 192
"Devil on Cramond Sands," xxiii. 170, 249, 308
Dew-Smith, A. G., xxiv. 151; letter to, xxiii. 287
Dhu Heartach lighthouse, xxiii. 10
"Diaboliques, Les" (d'Aurevilly), xxv. 174
"Dialogue of Character and Destiny," unfinished, xxiii. 257, 267
"Dialogue on Man, Woman, and 'Clarissa Harlowe,'" projected, xxiii.
211
Diana of the Ephesians, play on, planned, xxiii. 124, 125
"Diary," suggested publication of, xxv. 208
Dick, Mr., xxiv. 135; letter to, xxiv. 83
"Dickon Crookback" (Black Arrow), xxiii. _intro._ xx.
"Dictionary of Music" (Grove), xxiii. 151
Didier, Father, xxv. 67
"Die Judin" at Frankfurt, xxiii. 44
Disappointment, xxiii. 295
Dobell, Dr., xxiv. 201, 230
Dobson, Austin, xxiii. 307; xxiv. 205; letter to, xxiv. 126
"Dr. Syntax's Tour," xxv. 292-3
"Dodd" (Wrecker), xxv. 378
"Dogs" (Mayhew), xxiii. 341
"Dolly" (Way of the World), xxiii. 215
Donadieu's restaurant, xxiii. 254
Donat, --, xxiv. 312
"Don Juan" (Byron), xxiii. 354
"Don Juan," unfinished play (with Henley), xxiii. 256, 257, 258
Dorchester, visited, xxiv. 153
Dostoieffsky's works, xxiv. 182-3
Dover, T. W., letter to, xxv. 209
Dowden, Professor, xxiv, 211-12
Dowdney, --, xxv. 138
Dowson, Mr., xxiii. 86, 88
Doyle, Sir A. Conan, letters to, xxv. 298, 336, 429
"Dreams," xxv. 97
Duddingston Loch, xxiii. 75, 164
"Du hast Diamanten und Perlen," song, xxiii. 58
Dumas, Alexandre (_pere_), xxiii. 347; Henley's book on, xxiv. 54, 257
Dumas, novels of, xxiv. 398
Dumfries, at, xxiii. 64
Dunblane, at, xxiii. 33
Dunnet, --, xxv. 106
Dunoyer, Olympe, xxiii. 307
"Du schoenes Fischermaedchen," song (Schubert), xxiii. 139
Dutra, Augustin, xxiii. 240
Dutton, Mr., xxiv. 356
"Dyce of Ythan," projected (_see also_ "The Young Chevalier"), xxv. 172
"Dynamiter, The," xxiv. 114, 176
Dynamite, views on, xxiv. 108
Earraid, Isle of, xxiii. 10, 24, 318
"Earthly Paradise" (Morris), xxiii. 36
Easter Island, images from, xxiv. 362, 367
"Ebb Tide" (with Lloyd Osbourne), xxiv. 361, 399 & _n._ 1, 402; xxv.
120, 172 & _n._ 1, 281, 288 _et seq._, 290 & _n._ 1, 301 _et seq._,
307, 310, 314 _et seq._, 318, 321, 325, 350, 353, 372; criticism, xxv.
347 _et seq._; illustrations for, notes on, xxv. 301
"Echoes" (Henley), xxv. 215
Eckenhelm, xxiii. 39
"Eclogues" (Virgil), xxiii. 34
Edinburgh Academy (school), old boys' dinner, xxiii. 168, 169
Edinburgh, at, xxiii. _passim_; homes in, xxiii. 5; life at, 1874-5,
xxiii. 123 _et seq._
Edinburgh Castle, xxiii. 69, 71
_Edinburgh Courant_, wanted, xxv. 392
Edinburgh Edition of works, xxv. 372-3, 394, 396, 404, 414;
illustrations in, xxv. 423 & _n._ 1; suggested prefaces, xxv. 376
"Edinburgh Eleven" (Barrie), xxv. 276
Edinburgh, influence of, xxv. 155
Edinburgh, "Picturesque Notes on," xxiii. 185, 211, 216, 218
_Edinburgh Review_, article in, on Rembrandt, by Colvin, xxiii. 225
Edinburgh Society of Arts, medal awarded to R. L. S., xxiii. 10
Edinburgh streets, xxiv. 100
Edinburgh University, Speculative Society at, xxiii. 35, 64, 184;
xxiii. 312; xxiv. 178 studies at, xxiii. 8 _et seq._
Eeles, Lieutenant, R.N., xxv. 415; letters to, xxv. 267, 451
Effort, uses of, xxiv. 88
Eglinton, Hugh, 12th Earl of, xxv. 69
"Egoist, The" (Meredith), xxiii. 353
Eimeo, storm near, xxiv. 324
"Einst, O Wunder, einst," song, xxiii. 65
"Elements of Style" (_Contemporary Review_), xxiv. 181
Elgin marbles, the, xxiii. 158-60, 163-4
Eliot, George, works of, xxiii. 210
Elstree murder, xxiii. 338
"Emerson" (H. James), xxiv. 278
"Emigrant Train, The," xxv. 97
"Encyclopaedia Britannica," contributions to, xxiii. 179, 186, 191,
202-3
"Endymion" (Keats), xxiv. 170
"Engineer's Thumb" (Doyle), xxv. 340
England and Samoa, xxv. 6 _et seq._
England and Scotland, contrasts between, xxiii. 56 _et seq._
_English Illustrated Magazine_, contributions to, xxiv. 68 & _n._ 1
"English Odes," edited by Gosse, xxiii. 292; suggestions concerning,
xxiii. 293-4
English, the, mock definition of, xxiii. 225
"English Village, An" (Gosse), xxv. 457
"English Worthies" Series, book for, xxiv. 134
"Ensorcelee, L'" (d'Aurevilly), xxv. 314, 380
"Epilogue to an Inland Voyage," xxiv. 68
Epitaph for himself, by R. L. S., xxiii. 269; xxv. 375
Epitaph (mock) on himself, xxiv. 69
_Equator_, schooner, cruise in, xxiv. 291-2, 340, 343, 347, 357-8,
369, 390; xxv. 3
"Eroica" Symphony (Beethoven), xxiii. 166
"Escape at Bedtime" ("Child's Garden"), xxiv. 55
Essays, xxiii. 143; selected, projected volume and suggested contents,
xxv. 301 & _n._ 1
"Essays in Art" (Hamerton), xxiii. 242
"Essays in London" (H. James), xxv. 367
"Essays on the Art of Writing," xxiv. 265
"Essays on Travel," xxiii. 201, 281
"Etherege," essay (Gosse), xxiv. 45
"Evan Harrington" (Meredith), characters in, xxiv. 97
Evictions, Highland, xxiii. 298
"Evictions" (Miller), xxiii. 297
Ewing, Professor, xxiv. 226
Exeter, visited, xxiv. 105, 153
"Expansion of England" (Seeley), xxiv. 55, 56
"Fables in Song," xxiii. 127-8, 132, 141, 142
"Fables" (Lord Lytton), xxiii. 129
Fage, xxiii. 307
Fairchild, Blair, xxiv. 239, 405
Fairchild, Charles, xxiv. 233, 237, 239, 250; letter to, xxiv. 246
Fairchild, Mrs. Charles, xxiv. 233, 237, 239, 250; xxv. 379; letters
to, xxiv. 403; xxv. 163, 240
Fair Isle, visit to, xxiii. 24
Fakarava, at, xxiv. 295, 312
"Falconers, The Two, of Cairnstane," xxiii. 170
_Falke_, the, xxv. 425
Fall of Man, the, xxiii. 212
"Familiar Essays," xxiv. 230
"Familiar Studies of Men and Books," xxiii. 149, 224, 229, 351, 355;
publication, xxiii. 335.
"Family of Engineers" ("History of the Stevensons" or the "Northern
Lights"), unfinished; xxv. 120, 310, 315-6, 319-20, 322, 334, 339,
348, 357; germ of, xxiv. 279; xxv. 95
"Family of Love," xxiii. 170
"Fantasio" (de Musset), xxiv. 97
Farehau, xxiv. 310, 315
"F.A.S., In Memoriam" (Underwoods), xxiii. 300
Fast-day, xxiii. 153
"Fastidious Brisk," sobriquet, xxiv. 72
"Faust" (Goethe), xxiv. 71
Faxon, --, xxiv. 390
"Femmes Savantes" (Moliere), xxiv. 123
Fenian dynamite outrages, xxiii. 320
Fergusson, Robert, poet, xxiv. 214, 215; xxv. 57, 70-1, 88; monument,
xxv. 395-6
Ferrier, James Walter, xxiii. 48, 223; xxiv. 46, 47, 63, 98;
appreciation of, xxiv. 46 _et seq._; collaboration with, xxv. 398;
death, xxiv. 6, 46 _et seq._, 59, 69, 71-2, 96 _n._ 1; letter to,
xxiii. 269
Ferrier, Miss, xxiv. 90; letters to, xxiv. 46, 52, 71, 88, 121, 132,
282
Festetics de Solna, Count, at Apia, xxv. 415
Fielding, Henry, xxiii. 129
Fiji, xxv. 50, 96, 102
Fiji, High Commissioner of, proclamation by, xxv. 280
"Finsbury Tontine, The" (_see_ "Wrong Box")
Flaubert, Gustave, on prose, xxv. 71-2
Fleming, Marjorie, xxiv. 245 _n._ 1; verses of, xxv. 385
"Flint, Captain" ("Treasure Island"), xxiii. 326
"Flowers of the Forest," air, xxiii. 113
Folau, --, Chief Judge, xxv. 30
"Folk Lore" (Lang), xxiv. 130
Follete, M., xxiii. 100
"Fons Bandusiae" (Macdonald), xxiv. 249
Fontainebleau (_see also_ Barbizon, _and_ "Forest Notes"), visits to,
xxiii. 124, 182, 183, 184, 189, 282, 305
"Footnote to History," xxiv. 362 _et seq._, 369 _et seq._, 386; xxv.
5, 41 _n._ 1, 117, 120, 122, 124, 126, 129-30, 138, 140-4, 146, 163,
172, 188, 192, 211, 250, 257, 267, 274; publication of, xxv. 146;
German reception of, xxv. 346
"Foreigner, The, at Home," essay, xxiii. 56
"Forester," unfinished paper (J. W. Ferrier), xxiii. 269
"Forest Notes," essay on Fontainebleau (_Magazine of Art_), xxiii.
180, 181, 186, 198, 201, 202; xxiv. 32, 57, 58, 67, 68 _n._ 1; xxv.
397-8
"Forest State, The: A Romance" (_see also_ "Prince Otto"), xxiii. 259,
265, 266
Forfeited Estates, tenants of, xxiii. 298
Forster, --, xxiii. 321
Forth, Firth of, xxiii. 61, 68, 69
_Fortnightly Review_, contributions to, xxiii. 127, 132, 281
"Fortune by Sea and Land" (Heywood), xxiii. 354
Fortune, Mr. and Mrs., xxiii. 15
"Fortunes of Nigel" (Scott), xxiv. 91
Foss, Captain, xxv. 106
"Four Great Scotsmen," project for, xxiii. 111
"Fra Diavolo," at Frankfurt, xxiii. 42
France, Anatole, xxv. 321, 409
Franchise for working men, xxiii. 97
Francois, a baker, xxiii. 240; xxiv. 42
Francois Villon, xxiii. 182, 191, 192, 207; xxiv. 397; Schwob's
writings on, xxv. 52
Frank, --, xxv. 330
Frankfurt, at, xxiii. 38
Franklin, Benjamin, article on, projected, xxiii. 253, 265, 266, 333
_Fraser's Magazine_, contribution to, xxv. 97, 123
French possessions in the Pacific, xxiv. 293
French translations, _see_ letters to Schwob
"Friend," the (S. T. Coleridge), xxiii. 221
Friends, the six, xxiv. 47
"Fruits of Solitude" (Penn), xxiii. 303
Funk, Dr., xxv. 416, 458
Galitzin, Prince Leon, xxiii. 119, 120, 121, 125, 155
Galpin, --, xxiv. 202
"Gamekeeper," sobriquet for Miss Boodle, xxiv. 259, 284
"Game of Bluff," _see_ "Wrong Box"
Garschine, Madame, xxiii. 98, 99, 102, 108, 115, 147; letter from,
xxiii. 128
"Gauvain" (Quatre-vingt Treize, by Hugo), xxiii. 130 _n._ 1
"Gavin Ogilvy," character (Barrie), xxv. 277
"Gavottes Celebres" (Litolf's edition), xxiv. 188
"Gebir," line from, quoted (Landor), xxiii. 329
"Genesis of the Master of Ballantrae," xxv. 33
"Gentleman of France" (Weyman), xxv. 312
"George the Pieman" (Deacon Brodie), xxiii. 257
German policy in Samoa, xxiv. 370; xxv. 6 _et seq._, 176 _et passim_
Gevaudan, xxiii. 218
"Giant Bunker," xxiv. 70
Gibson, Captain, xxv. 203
Gilbert Islands, burial customs in, xxiv. 399, 400; papers on, xxv.
84; suggested plan and title, 84; visited, xxiv. 291-2, 356-7 _et
seq._, 368
Gilder, R. W., editor _Century Magazine_, xxiii. 338; xxiv. 26, 29,
30, 64, 98, 149, 185, 250
Gilfillan, --, xxiv. 349, 352
Gladstone, Rt. Hon. W. E., xxiii. 113; xxiv. 136-7, 139, 192
Glasgow, Knox memorial at, xxv. 88
"Gleams of Memory" (Payn), xxv. 447
Glencorse Church, xxiii. 180; xxv. 305, 307
"Go Between," xxv. 314-5 & _n._ 1
"Goguclat" (St. Ives), xxiii. _intro._ xx.
"Good Boy, A" ("Child's Garden"), xxiv. 55, 170
"Gordon Darnaway" ("Merry Men"), xxiii. _intro._ xx.
Gordon, General C. G., xxiv. 107, 137, 139-40, 183; xxv. 57
Gosse, Edmund, xxiii. 311, 316, 328, 329, 341; xxiv. 36, 120, 244;
appointment to Clark Readership, xxiv. 99; letters to, xxiii. 219,
224, 226, 236, 243, 245, 260, 271, 292, 293, 306, 311, 313, 324, 325,
332, 338, 350, 359, 360; xxiv. 26, 29, 30, 45, 50, 87, 97, 125, 139,
173, 181, 244, 277; xxv. 71, 317, 454; "Life" by, of his father, xxv.
71, 130, 317
Gosse, Mrs. Edmund, xxiii. 225, 227; letter to, xxiii. 347
Gosse, P. H., "Life" of, by E. Gosse, xxv. 71, 130, 317
"Gossip, A, on Romance," xxiii. 283, 342, 349
Goettingen, xxiii. 118, 122, 125
"Gower Woodseer" ("Amazing Marriage," by Meredith), prototype of, xxv.
344, 390-1
Grange, Lady, xxiii. 298
Grant, --, xxiii. 316
Grant, Geordie, xxiii. 19
Grant, Lady, xxiv. 53, 72
Grant, Mrs., of Laggan, xxiii. 298
Granton, xxiii. 8
Grant, Sir Alexander, xxiv. 53, 72, 132
"Grape from a Thorn" (Payn), xxiv. 7
Graves, home and foreign, xxv. 349 & _n._ 1
"Gray, Thomas" ("English Men of Letters"), by Gosse, xxiii. 350, 351,
360; works of, edited by Gosse, xxiv. 140
"Great Expectations" (Dickens), xxiv. 22-3
"Great North Road," unfinished, xxiii. 328; xxiv. 106, 127, 139, 152,
402
Greenaway, Kate, xxiv. 32
Green, Madame, singer, xxv. 249
Grey, Sir George, xxv. 290, 298-9; visit to, xxv. 292
Grez, at, xxiii. 183, 185, 187; meeting with Mrs. Osbourne at, xxii.
183, 228
Grove, Sir George, xxiii. _intro._ xviii. 151, 178, 204
Guerin, Maurice de, xxiii. 165
Gurr, --, xxv. 48, 105, 116, 448
Gurr, Mrs., xxv. 107
Guthrie, Charles J., letters to, xxiii. 312; xxiv. 178
"Guy Mannering" (Scott), xxiv. 91; xxv. 167
Habakkuk, prophet, xxiii. 211
Haddon, Trevor, letters to, xxiii. 357, 360; xxiv. 10, 39, 93
Haggard, Bazett, xxv. 138, 161, 170-1, 193 _et passim_
Haggard, Rider, xxiv. 257; xxv. 86, 226-7
"Haggis, The" (Burns), xxiv. 256
"Hair Trunk," xxiii. 205-6
Hake, Dr. Gordon, xxiv. 239
Hall, Basil, xxv. 111
Halle, Sir Charles, xxiii. 169, 198
"Hall, Mr." (Clarissa Harlowe), xxiii. 211
Hamerton, P. G., xxiii. _intro._ xvii., 58, 216, 218, 315 _n._ 1, 316,
336; letters to, xxiii. 242, 314, 335; xxiv. 143
"Hamerton, P. G., An Autobiography," xxiii. 216
Hamilton, Captain, death of, xxv. 65
"Hamlet" (Shakespeare), xxv. 51
Hammond, Basil, xxiv. 13 & _n._ 1
Hampstead, at, xxiii. 124, 133
Hand, Captain, R.N., xxv. 139
Handwriting, tests of, xxv. 254-5
Hansome, Rufe, xxiii. 278
Happiness, xxiv. 183-4
Hardy, Thomas, xxiv. 153; xxv. 266
Hargrove, Mr., xxiii. 25, 26
"Harry Richmond" (Meredith), characters in, xxiv. 97
Harte, Bret, xxiii. 210
"Hastie" (Kidnapped), xxiv. 196
Hawaiian Islands, stay in, xxiv. 291
"Hawthorne" (H. James), xxiii. 273, 277
Hayley, --, xxiii. 252
Hazlitt, William, xxv. 385
"Heart of Midlothian" (Scott), xxiii. 65; xxv. 154
"Heathercat," unfinished, xxv. 281, 360-1, 403
Hebrides, yachting trip in, xxiii. 124, 139, 140
Hecky, a dog, xxiv. 202
Hegel, --, xxiv. 75
Heintz, Dr., xxiii. 244
Henderson, Mr., xxiii. 6, 328; xxiv. 31
Henley, Anthony, xxiii. 238, 240
Henley, E. J., xxiv. 261
Henley, W. E., xxiii. 124, 171, 172, 177, 284, 285, 334, 352; xxiv.
29, 47, 52, 59, 67, 79, 99, 151, 155, 191, 202, 302, 377; xxv. 97,
121, 123, 174; appreciation of, xxv. 213; dramatic collaboration with,
xxiii. 185, 256, 257; xxiv. 99, 106, 119, 146; editor of _London_,
xxiii. 184; in hospital, xxv. 427; letters to, xxiii. 204, 217, 219,
221, 233, 238, 249, 255, 256, 265, 317, 319, 326, 328, 330, 334, 341,
342, 352, 362; xxiv. 17, 23, 31, 32, 34, 36, 37, 47, 54, 57, 65, 72,
79, 91, 96, 102, 111, 114, 120, 123, 127, 131, 133, 146, 147, 155,
229, 239, 248, 257; xxv. 214; poems by, xxv. 122, 214
"Henry Shovel," _see_ "Shovels of Newton French"
_Herald_, ship, xxv. 444
Herbert, George, poetry of, xxiii. 18
Herrick, Robert, xxiii. _intro._ xx.; xxiv. 36, 82
"Herrick, Robert," essay (Gosse), xxiv. 45
_Hester Noble_, unfinished play (with Henley), xxiii. 256, 257
"Hey, Johnnie Cope, are ye waukin' yet?" air, xxiii. 113
Highland History, projected, xxiii. 280, 290-1, 297; xxv. 117
"Highland Widow" (Scott), xxv. 24
"High Woods of Umfanua," _see_ "Beach of Falesa"
Hiroshige, prints by, xxiii. 157
"Histoire d'Israel" (Renan), xxv. 304
"Histoire des Origines de Christianisme" (Renan), xxv. 304
"History of America" (Adams), xxv. 215, 266
"History of England" (Macaulay), xxiii. 70
"History of France" (Martin), xxiii. 193
"History of Indostani" (Orme), xxv. 419, 423
"History of Notorious Pirates" (Johnson), xxiv. 101
"History of the Great Storm" (Defoe), xxiv. 101
"History of the Rebellion" (Clarendon), xxiii. 31
"History of the Stevensons," _see_ "Family of Engineers"
"History of the United States" (Bancroft), xxiii. 246
Hogarth, William, xxiii. 69; Cambridge lectures on, by Colvin, xxiii.
178
Hokusai (_Magazine of Art_), xxiv. 32
Hole, W., illustrator, xxiv. 270, 319, 321-2, 346; xxv. 349 & _n._ 1,
362 _n._ 1
"Holy Fair" (Burns), xxiii. 4; xxiv. 265 _n._ 1
Homburg, visit to, xxiii. 182
"Home is the Sailor," lines chosen for epitaph, xxiii. 269; xxv. 375
Home Rule Bill of 1885, xxiv. 192
"Homme, L', qui rit" (Hugo), xxiii. 125 & _n._ 1
Honolulu, visits to, xxiv. 291, 319 _et seq._, 329, 353; xxv. 281,
345, 349, 362
"Horatian Ode" (Marvell), xxiii. 293
Hoskin, Dr., xxv. 268, 270, 452
"House of Eld" Fables, xxiii. 12, 141
Houses, characteristics of, xxiii. 145, 146
Howard Place, 8, Edinburgh, birthplace, xxiii. 5
"Howe, Miss" (Clarissa Harlowe), xxiii. 210
"Huckleberry Finn" (Twain), xxiv. 139
"Huguenots, Les," opera, xxiii. 200
"Huish" (Ebb Tide), xxv. 313
"Human Compromise," xxiii. 267
Humble Apology (Longman's), xxiv. 181
Humble Remonstrance (Longman's), xxiv. 127
Hume, David, xxiii. 4, 72, 111, 145
"Humilies et offenses" (Dostoieffsky), xxiv. 183
Hunter, Robert, "portrait" of, xxv. 301
Hurricane at Apia, the great, xxiv. 345, 346, 369; xxv. 141, 172-4;
chapter on, in "Footnote," issued in _Scots Observer_, xxv. 174
Hutchinson, --, bust by, of R. L. S., xxv. 353 & _n._ 1
Hyde, Rev. Dr., and Father Damien, xxiv. 292; controversy with, xxiv.
383-4, 391 & _n._ 1, 402, 404
Hyeres, at, xxiv. 5, 21 _et seq._; xxv. 60
Hyndman, --, xxiv. 141
"Hyperion" (Keats), xxiv. 170
Iceland, book on, by Gosse suggested, xxiii. 333
"Ich unglueckselige Atlas," song (Schubert), xxiii. 139
Ide, Annie H., and R. L. S.'s birthday, xxv. 89-90, 118-9; letter to,
xxv. 118
Ide, C. J., Land Commissioner and afterwards Chief Justice in Samoa,
xxv. 281, 298, 380-1, 450; letter to, xxv. 88
Ide, Margery, xxv. 450
_Idler, The_, xxv. 372, 429; contributions to, xxv. 376
_Illustrated London News_, xxv. 301
Inchcape bell, xxiii. 29
Income-tax, xxiii. 113, 114
Inglis, John, Justice-General, xxiii. 181
Ingram, John H., xxiii. 166
"Inland Voyage," xxiii. 183, 185, 204, 211, 212, 218, 229, 247; xxiv.
103; criticisms on, xxiii. 215-6
"Inn Album" (Robert Browning), review of, xxiii, 198, 199
"Inn, The," xxv. 429
"In Russet and Silver" (Gosse), dedication of, xxv. 454
"In the Garden," projected, xxiv. 99
"In the South Seas," first published as "The South Seas," xxiv. 290,
292, 297, 320-1, 358, 362, 399, 403; xxv. 5, 12, 16, 22, 26, 34, 45,
54, 61 & _nn._ 1 & 2, 68, 69, 77, 78, 80, 97, 100; criticisms, xxiv.
293, 348-9; xxv. 76; dedication proposed, xxiv. 304
Intimate Poems, suggested edition, xxv. 377
_Iona_, vessel, xxiii. 24
Ireland, Alexander, letter to, xxiii. 342
Ireland, plan for life in, xxiv. 108, 222
Irongray, tombs at, xxiii. 65
"Isabella and the Pot of Basil" (Keats), xxiv. 170
Isaiah, prophet, xxiii. 211
"Is it not verse except enchanted groves" (Herbert), xxiii. 18
"Island Nights' Entertainments," xxv. 64, 272, 284, 290;
illustrations, xxv. 312; length, xxv. 353 & _n._ 1; reviews xxv.
315 & _n._ 1
"Isle of Voices," xxv. 272
"Islet, The," xxv. 301
"Ivanhoe" (Scott), xxiv. 31
Jack, the island horse, xxv. 35-6, 41, 136, 142
James, G. P. R., novels by, ordered by R. L. S., xxiv. 273
James, Henry, xxiv. 105, 127, 130, 133, 143, 154, 182, 235, 250, 359;
xxv. 29, 317, 415, 452; letters to, xxiv. 127, 160, 214, 215, 237,
249, 262, 278, 288, 334, 382, 396; xxv. 43, 108, 130, 274, 320, 335,
367, 406
"James More," xxv. 161, 216, 295
_Janet Nicoll_, ss., cruise in, xxiv. 292-3, 385 _et seq._, 392, 403;
xxv. 11, 54, 304
Japan and Japanese art, interest in, xxiii. 157, 158, 159; xxiv. 32,
57
Japp, Dr. Alexander, xxiii. 329; letters to, xxiii. 321, 327, 351
Jeafferson, --, xxiv. 178
"Jedidiah Cleishbotham" (Scott), xxiii. 65
Jenkin family, xxiii. 25, 100
Jenkin, Mrs. Fleeming, xxiii. 10, 25; xxiv. 300; letters to, xxiv.
150, 151, 187, 221, 225, 258; xxv. 273
Jenkin, Professor Fleeming, xxiii. 10, 25, 118, 122, 175, 176, 183,
247, 311, 341, 353; xxiv. 48, 258, 272; death, xxiv. 106, 150, 151;
memoir of, by R. L. S. (_see_ "Memoir"); debt to, xxiv. 331
Jerome, Jerome K., xxv. 372, 429
"Jerry Abershaw," projected, xxiii. 328, 329; xxiv. 152
Jersey, Countess of, in Samoa, xxv. 145, 227, 228, 325; letters to,
xxv, 228-9; on her visit to R. L. S., xxv. 228
Jersey, Earl of, xxv. 288
"Jess" (Window in Thrums), xxv. 277
Jhering, Professor, xxiii. 118, 122
_J. L. Tiernan_, schooner, xxiv. 359
Joan of Arc, Byron's epithet for, xxiii. 354
"Jock o' Hazeldean," air, xxiii. 113
"John Peel" of the song, xxiii. 28
"John Silver" (Treasure Island), xxiv. 112, 123; genesis of, xxiv. 31
Johnson, --, an American, xxiii. 108, 110, 111, 112
"Johnson," or "Johnstone," pseudonym, xxiv. 14, 121
Johnson, Samuel, xxiii. 298; "Life" of, xxiii. 193, 203
Johnstone, Marie, Mary, or May, xxiii. 94, 95, 98, 99, 101
Johnstone, Mr. and Mrs., xxiii. 96, 99
_John Williams_, missionary barque, xxiv. 387
"Jolly Beggars" (Burns), sent for autograph, xxv. 69, 87, 118
Jones, Henry Arthur (_see also_ "Bauble Shop"), letter to, xxiv. 133
Jonson, Ben, xxiii. 294
Journalistic work, xxiii. 184
"Joy of Earth" (Meredith), xxv. 214
Jura, Skye terrier, xxv. 428-9
"Justice Clerk," _see_ Weir of Hermiston
"Juvenilia," xxv. 397-8
Kaiulani, Hawaiian Princess, xxiv. 345, 346
Kalakaua, King, xxiv. 320
Kalaupapa, Molokai, xxiv. 351 _et seq._
Kalawao, Molokai, xxiv. 353-4
_Katoomba_, H.M.S., xxv. 334; band of, xxv. 351
Kava, native beverage, xxv. 183 & _n._ 1
"Keats" ("English Men of Letters," by Colvin), xxiii. 349, 350-1;
xxiv. 210, 211
Keir, Jean, xxv. 335
Kelso, xxiii. 156
"Kenilworth" (Scott), xxiv. 91
"Kidnapped," xxiii. 24, 331; xxiv. 106, 146, 147, 179, 190, 195-6,
203, 233, 265, 317, 370, 377; xxv. 108, 160, 215, 250, 283, 301, 351;
in Braille, xxv. 366; projected illustrations, xxv. 349 _n._ 1;
reception, xxiv. 198; reviews, xxiv. 203; sequel (_see_ "Catriona"),
xxv. 144; suggested French translation, xxv. 52
Killigrew, Anne, xxiii. 293 _n._ 1
"King Lear" (Shakespeare), xxv. 51
"King Matthias's Hunting Horn" lost, xxiii. 158, 160, 170
Kinglake, W., xxiii. 70
"King's Horn, The," xxiii. 308
Kingston, W.G., xxiii. _intro._ xxiii.
Kingussie, at, xxiii. 284, 357
Kipling, Rudyard, anticipated visit from, xxv. 105 & _n._ 1; xxv. 163,
165; appreciations of, xxiv. 396; xxv. 46, 213, 275; letter to, xxv.
46; writings of, xxv. 379
Kirriemuir, xxv. 417
"Kirstie Elliot" (Weir of Hermiston), xxiii. _intro._ xx.; xxv. 457
Kitchener, Colonel, _ib._
Kitchener, Viscount, xxv. 236-7
Knappe, Consul, xxiv. 370; xxv. 139, 141
"Knox, John, and his Relations with Women," xxiii. 141, 149, 150, 153,
155
Knox, John, "Works" of, xxiii. 117
Knox, John, writings on, xxiii. 55, 61, 111, 141, 146, 147, 148, 149,
150, 153, 155, 158, 159, 167, 170, 171, 173
Ko-o-amua, ex-cannibal chief, xxiv. 293
"Kubla Khan" (Coleridge), xxiii. 92, 220
Kuniyoshi, prints by, xxiii. 157
Labiche, --, xxiii. 239
Labour, imported, in Samoa, xxv. 159 & _n._ 1
Lacy, Mr., xxiii. 307
"Lady Barberina" (H. James), xxiv. 128
"Lady Carbury" ("Way of the World"), xxiii. 215
Lafarge, John, painter, xxv. 4, 29 & _n._ 1, 41, 43, 45
La Fontaine, "Fables" of, xxv. 49
"Lake Isle of Innisfree" (Yeats), xxv. 390
Lamb, Charles, xxiii. 209
"Lamia" (Keats), illustrated by Low, xxiv. 142, 166; dedication of,
xxiv. 169-71
Lampman, Archibald, sonnet by, xxiv. 321 & _n._ 1
Landor, W. S., xxiii. 302, 317, 320-1
"Landscape" (Hamerton), xxiv. 143-4
Land's End, visited, xxiii. 183, 209
Lang, Andrew, xxiii. 115, 117, 222, 311, 316; xxiv. 106, 134, 206,
257, 278, 381, 388; xxv. 357, 427; letters to, xxiv. 399; xxv. 216,
453; story suggested by, xxv. 141 & _n._ 1; on "Treasure Island,"
xxiv. 67
Lantenac, M. (Victor Hugo), xxiii. 130 _n._ 1
"Lantern Bearers, The" (_Scribner's_), xxiv. 235, 254; xxv. 97, 301
Large, Miss, xxv. 329-31
La Sale, Antoine, projected essay on, xxiii. 207
"Last Sinner, The," xxiii. 171
Laupepa, _see_ Malietoa
Lautreppe, Albert de, xxv. 383
Lavenham, xxiii. 56
Law examination passed, xxiii. 182
"Lay Morals," 86, 185; xxiv. 62 _et seq._
"Leading Light, The," projected, xxiii. 329
"Leaves of Grass" (Whitman), xxiii. 70
Le Gallienne, Richard, letter to, xxv. 364
Legal work, xxiii. 182, 184
Leigh, Hon. Capt., xxv. 227-8, 231, 233, 234, 235
Leith, xxiii. 159, 202
Lemon, --, picture by, xxiv. 167
Lenz, --, xxiv. 198
Le Puy, xxiii. 217
"Lesson, The, of the Master" (H. James), xxiv. 382; xxv. 108, 274
"Letter to the Church of Scotland," xxv. 398
"Letter to a Young Gentleman," xxv. 123 _n._ 1
"Letters and Memories of Jane Welsh Carlyle" (Froude), xxiii, 301, 302
Letters, desiderata in, xxiii. 259
"Letters" (Flaubert), xxiv. 405; xxv. 59
"Letters from a Gentleman in the North of Scotland to his Friend in
London" (Burt), xxiii. 291
"Letters to his Family and Friends," xxiii. _intro._ xix.
Leven, xxiii. 61
"Library, The" (Lang), xxiii. 307
"Lieder und Balladen" (Burns), Silbergleit's translation, xxiii. 39
Life, two views on, xxiv. 158, 164, 165
"Life and Death," xxiii. 171
"Life of General Hutchinson" (Mrs. Hutchinson), xxiii. 30, 31, 32
"Life of Hazlitt," projected, xxiii. 283, 336, 339, 345
"Life of P. H. Gosse" (Edmund Gosse), xxv. 71, 130, 317
"Life of R. L. S." (Balfour), xxiii. _intro._ xix.; xxv. 4, 59
"Life of Robertson" (Dugald Stewart), xxiii. 119
"Life of Samuel Johnson" (Boswell), xxiii. 193, 203
"Life of Sir Walter Scott" (Lockhart), xxiv. 75, 84, 170, 171
"Life of Wellington" ("English Worthies"), unfinished, xxiv. 106, 134,
139
"Life on the Lagoons" (H. F. Brown), xxiii. 303
Lillie, Jean and David, connection of, with the Stevensons, xxv. 436
"Lion of the Nile," xxiv. 321
Lions, xxiii. 307
Lippincott, xxiv. 54-5, 90
"Literary Recollections" (Payn), xxiv. 381
"Little Minister" (Barrie), xxv. 265, 276
"Lives of the Admirals" (Southey), xxiii. 70
"Lives of the Stevensons," _see_ "Family of Engineers"
"L. J. R.," Essay Club, xxiii. 46, 48; xxv. 121
Llandudno, visited, xxiii. 124, 148
Locker-Lampson, Frederick, letters to, xxiv. 205, 206, 207, 208, 215
"Lodging for the Night," xxiii. 184, 191, 248
Logan, John, xxiii. 71, 72
_London_, contributions to, xxiii. 184
"London Life" (H. James), xxiv. 289
London, visits to (see _also_ British Museum), xxiii. 77, 155, 330;
xxiv. 105, 107, 186-7, 189, 202, 209, 229
"London Voluntaries" (Henley), xxv. 214
Longman, --, publisher, xxiv. 30, 66, 111, 134; xxv. 123, 125
_Longman's Magazine_, contributions to, xxiv. 127, 130, 134, 143, 181;
xxv. 454
"Lord Nidderdale" (Way of the World), xxiii. 215
"Lord Rintoul" (Little Minister), xxv. 265
"Lost Sir Massingberd" (Payn), xxiv. 7, 177
Loti, Pierre (M. Viaud), xxiv. 308
"Loudon Dodd" (Wrecker), xxv. 24, 172 & _n._1
"Louis XIV. et la Revocation de l'Edit de Nantes" (Michelet), xxiii.
69
"Louse, The" (Burns), xxiv. 256
"Love in the Valley" (Meredith), xxiv. 54; xxv. 214, 390
"Lovelace" (Clarissa Harlowe), xxiii. 210
Love, young, advice on, xxiii. 358
Lowell, John Russell, xxiv. 107
Low, Mrs. W. H., xxiv. 107, 202, 217
Low, W. H., xxiv. 107, 202, 217, 234, 250, 251, 255, 288, 369, 390;
xxv. 25, 111; illustrated edition by, of "Lamia," xxiv. 142, 166;
dedication of, xxiv. 169-71; letters to, xxiv. 57, 63, 72, 89, 115,
142, 153, 166, 169, 172, 177, 185, 217, 230, 245, 346; xxv. 378
_Luebeck_, s.s., passage on, xxiv. 375 _et seq._; xxv. 48, 50, 53, 81
_Ludgate Hill_, s.s., passage in, xxiv. 110, 230, 232; xxiv. 235 _et
seq._
Lully, J.B., gavotte by, xxiv. 188-9
Lysaght, Sidney, xxv. 385-6, 388, 405, 415 & _n._ 1; books by, xxv.
390; visit from, xxv. 374
_Macaire_, play (with Henley), xxiv. 146, 147
_Macbeth_ (Shakespeare), xxiv. 57
M'Carthy, Justin, xxiv. 173
McClure, S. S., publisher, relations with, xxiv. 234, 252, 321, 379;
xxv. 120
McCrie, --, xxiii. 117
Macdonald, David, xxiii. 20
Macdonald, Flora, xxiii. 298
Macdonald, George, xxiv. 248
Macdonald, J. H. A., xxiii. 114
Macgregor, clan, xxv. 293, 346
M'Gregor-Stevenson connection, question of, xxv. 440
Mackay, Professor AEneas, xxiii. 282; letters to, xxiii. 309
Mackintosh family, xxiii. 169
M'Laren, Duncan, xxiii. 96, 97, 114
MacMahon, President, xxiii. 116
Macmillan, Alexander, xxiii. 151
_Macmillan's Magazine_, xxiii. _intro._ xvii. 204; contributions to,
xxiii. 125, 149, 151
Macpherson, Miss Fanny (Lady Holroyd), xxv. 83 & _n._ 1
Madeira, plan to visit, xxiv. 328
"Mademoiselle Merquem" (Sand), xxiii. 87
_Magazine of Art_, contributions to, xxiii. 333-4; xxiv. 54, 57, 115,
181; xxv. 97, 123, 398, 423
Majendie, Colonel, xxiv. 283
"Malade Imaginaire" (Moliere), xxiv. 123
"Malbrook s'en va-t-en guerre," xxiii. 102
Malie, abode and following of Malietoa, xxv. 6, 9 _et seq._
Malietoa Laupepa, xxv. 9, 176, 234, 466; friendliness with, xxv. 10;
and Mataafa, troubles concerning, xxv. 6-9 _et seq._
Manasquan, at, xxiv. 234, 286-8
Manchester Ship Canal, xxiv. 135
_Manhattan_, magazine, xxiv. 57, 90
"Manse, The," xxiii. 4; xxv. 301
Manu'a, islands of, "queen" of, xxv. 407-8
Marat, xxiv. 183
Marbot, "Memoires" of, xxv. 274, 321
"Marche funebre" (Chopin), xxiii. 139
Marcus Aurelius, xxiv. 183
"Marden, Colonel" (Clarissa Harlowe), xxiii. 210
"Margery Bonthron," xxiii. 171
"Marion," xxiii. 307
_Mariposa_, s.s., xxv. 346
"Markheim," xxiii. _intro._ xx., xxiii.; xxiv. 125, 213
"Marmont's Memoirs," xxiv. 134
Marot, Clement, poems by, xxiii. 108
"Marplot, The" (Lysaght), xxv. 390
Marquesas Islands, visited, xxiv. 290, 293, 371
Marryat, Captain, works by, ordered by R. L. S., xxiv. 338
Marseilles, at, xxiv. 5, 12-14, 98
Marshall Islands, visited, xxiv. 292
Martial, xxiv. 82
Martin, A. Patchett, letters to, xxiii. 208, 209
"Martin's Madonna," xxiii. 171
Marvell, Andrew, xxv. 46
Mary, Queen of Scots, xxiii. 62
"Mary Wollstonecraft" (Mrs. Pennell), xxiv. 149
"Master of Ballantrae," xxiii. _intro._ xxiii.; xxiv. 235, 265,
268-70, 274, 276, 278, 279, 291, 314, 317, 328, 338, 339, 346, 349,
360, 369, 370, 377, 398; xxv. 43, 171 & _n._ 2, 250, 357;
illustrations, xxiv. 319, 320; original plan of, xxv. 396; paper on,
xxv. 376; suggested French translation, xxv. 52
Mataafa, xxiv. 370; xxv. 176, 256; troubles concerning, xxv. 6-9 _et
seq._, 93 _et seq._, 280, 332-3, 350; visits to, xxv. 193 _et seq._,
242; with Lady Jersey, xxv. 228 _et seq._
Matlock, visited, xxiv. 105, 189
Maupassant, Guy de, xxiv. 383
Maxwell, Sir Herbert, xxv. 437; letters to, xxv. 440, 453
"Mazeppa" (Byron), xxiii. 132
Medallion portrait by St. Gaudens, xxv. 410
Medea (Ordered South), xxiii. 86 & _n._ 1
Mediterranean, impression of, xxiii. 104, 105
Meiklejohn, Hugh, xxv. 269, 450, 451
Meiklejohn, Professor John, xxiii. 263, 316; compliments on "Burns"
article, xxiii. 241; letters to, xxiii. 263; xxv. 450
"Mein Herz ist im Hochland," xxiii. 41
Melford, xxiii. 56
Melville, Herman, xxiv. 295, 348, 381
"Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin," xxiv. 106-7, 150, 169, 174, 187, 225
"Memoirs of a Cavalier" (Defoe), xxiv. 101
"Memoirs of an Islet," essay, xxiii. 23
"Memoirs of Henry Shovel," unfinished, xxiv. 402
"Memorials" (Laing), xxv. 293
"Memorials of a Scottish Family," projected (_see also_ "Family of
Engineers"), xxiv. 279
"Memories and Portraits," xxiii. 56, 318 _n._ 1; xxiv. 96 _n._ 1, 214,
215, 230, 231, 257; xxv. 51, 53, 301 & _n._ 1
"Men and Books," xxiii. 86
Menken, Adah, xxiii. 275
Mentone, at, xxiii. 55, 77, 81 _et seq._, 143-4
Meredith, George, xxiii. 183, 311; xxiv. 97, 278 & _n._ 1; xxv. 351-2;
letters to, xxv. 343, 390
"Merry Men, The," xxiii. 282, 316, 317, 321; xxiv. 35, 90, 125, 213,
215; xxv. 353; criticisms on, xxiii. 319; dedication, xxiv. 211; germ
of, xxiii. 308; places described in, xxiii. 317
Michaels, barber, xxiii. 244
Michelet, --, xxv. 304
Middleton, Miss, letter to, xxv. 428
Millais, Sir John E., xxiv. 139; on R. L. S., as artist, xxiii.
_intro._ xxx.
Milne, Mrs., letter to, xxiv. 70
Milson, John, xxiv. 130
"Mimes" (Schwob), xxv. 409
"Misadventure in France, A," essay, xxiv. 67-8
"Misadventures of John Nicholson" (_Yule-Tide_), xxiii. 12; xxiv. 211,
214; xxv. 57 & _n._ 1
"Miscellanies" (Edinburgh edition), xxv. 33, 376, 397 & _n._ 1, 424
"Miserables, Les" (V. Hugo), xxiii. 129 _n._ 1
Missions and missionary work, xxv. 10, _n._ 1, 33, 56, 57, 203,
410-11, 422
Moee, Princess, xxiv. 308, 309, 313
"Mobray" (Clarissa Harlowe), xxiii. 210
Moedestine, the donkey of the Cevennes journey, xxiii. 218
Moliere, xxiii. 69; plays, xxiv. 96, 123
"Moll Flanders" (Defoe), xxiv. 101
Molokai, visited, xxiv. 291, 345, 349 _et seq._, 356
Monaco, at, xxiii. 93
Monastier, visit to, xxiii. 217
Monkhouse, Cosmo, letters to, xxiv. 85, 95
Monroe, Miss, letters to, xxiv. 191, 193, 261
"Monsieur Auguste" (Mery), xxiii. 257, 258