Volume 16 — STEVENSON
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VOLUME SIXTEEN
LONDON: PUBLISHED BY CHATTO AND WINDUS: IN ASSOCIATION WITH CASSELL AND COMPANY LIMITED: WILLIAM HEINEMANN: AND LONGMANS GREEN AND COMPANY MDCCCCXII
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
CONTENTS
RECORDS OF A FAMILY OF ENGINEERS
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Introduction: The Surname of Stevenson 3
I. Domestic Annals 12
II. The Service of the Northern Lights 34
III. The Building of the Bell Rock 62
ADDITIONAL MEMORIES AND PORTRAITS
I. Random Memories
i. The Coast of Fife 155
II. Random Memories
ii. The Education of an Engineer 167
III. A Chapter on Dreams 177
IV. Beggars 190
V. The Lantern-bearers 200
LATER ESSAYS
I. Fontainebleau: Village Communities of Painters 215
II. A Note on Realism 234
III. On some Technical Elements of Style in Literature 241
IV. The Morality of the Profession of Letters 260
V. Books which have Influenced Me 272
VI. The Day after To-morrow 279
VII. Letter to t Young Gentleman who Proposes to Embrace the Career of Art 290
VIII. Pulvis et Umbra 299
IX. A Christmas Sermon 306
X. Father Damien: An Open Letter to the Reverend Dr. Hyde of Honolulu 315
XI. My First Book—“treasure Island” 331
XII. The Genesis of “the Master of Ballantrae” 341
XIII. Random Memories: rosa Quo Locorum 345
XIV. Reflections and Remarks on Human Life 354
XV. The Ideal House 370
LAY MORALS 379
PRAYERS WRITTEN FOR FAMILY USE AT VAILIMA 431