Robert Louis Stevenson
- Subtitle
- A Record, an Estimate, and a Memorial
Alexander H. (Alexander Hay) Japp
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1. Front matter2. PREFACE3. Introductory material4. CHAPTER I—INTRODUCTION AND FIRST IMPRESSIONS5. CHAPTER II—TREASURE ISLAND AND SOME REMINISCENCES6. CHAPTER III—THE CHILD FATHER OF THE MAN7. CHAPTER IV—HEREDITY ILLUSTRATED8. CHAPTER V—TRAVELS9. CHAPTER VI—SOME EARLIER LETTERS10. CHAPTER VII—THE VAILIMA LETTERS11. CHAPTER VIII—WORK OF LATER YEARS12. CHAPTER IX—SOME CHARACTERISTICS13. CHAPTER X—A SAMOAN MEMORIAL OF R. L. STEVENSON14. CHAPTER XI—MISS STUBBS’ RECORD OF A PILGRIMAGE15. CHAPTER XII—HIS GENIUS AND METHODS16. CHAPTER XIII—PREACHER AND MYSTIC FABULIST17. CHAPTER XIV—STEVENSON AS DRAMATIST18. CHAPTER XV—THEORY OF GOOD AND EVIL19. CHAPTER XVI—STEVENSON’S GLOOM20. CHAPTER XVII—PROOFS OF GROWTH21. CHAPTER XVIII—EARLIER DETERMINATIONS AND RESULTS22. CHAPTER XIX—EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN’S ESTIMATE23. CHAPTER XX—EGOTISTIC ELEMENT AND ITS EFFECTS24. CHAPTER XXI—UNITY IN STEVENSON’S STORIES25. CHAPTER XXII—PERSONAL CHEERFULNESS AND INVENTED GLOOM26. CHAPTER XXIII—EDINBURGH REVIEWERS’ DICTA INAPPLICABLE TO LATER WORK27. CHAPTER XXIV—MR HENLEY’S SPITEFUL PERVERSIONS28. CHAPTER XXV—MR CHRISTIE MURRAY’S IMPRESSIONS29. CHAPTER XXVI—HERO-VILLAINS30. CHAPTER XXVII—MR G. MOORE, MR MARRIOTT WATSON AND OTHERS31. CHAPTER XXVIII—UNEXPECTED COMBINATIONS32. CHAPTER XXIX—LOVE OF VAGABONDS33. CHAPTER XXX—LORD ROSEBERY’S CASE34. CHAPTER XXXI—MR GOSSE AND MS. OF TREASURE ISLAND35. CHAPTER XXXII—STEVENSON PORTRAITS36. CHAPTER XXXIII—LAPSES AND ERRORS IN CRITICISM37. CHAPTER XXXIV—LETTERS AND POEMS IN TESTIMONY38. APPENDIX