CHAPTER XXX I SET OFF UPON MY JOURNEY TO THE HOUSE OF SHAWS
I COME TO MY JOURNEY’S END
I MAKE ACQUAINTANCE OF MY UNCLE
I RUN A GREAT DANGER IN THE HOUSE OF SHAWS
I GO TO THE QUEEN’S FERRY
WHAT BEFELL AT THE QUEEN’S FERRY
I GO TO SEA IN THE BRIG “COVENANT” OF DYSART
THE ROUND-HOUSE
THE MAN WITH THE BELT OF GOLD
THE SIEGE OF THE ROUND-HOUSE
THE CAPTAIN KNUCKLES UNDER
I HEAR OF THE “RED FOX”
THE LOSS OF THE BRIG
THE ISLET
THE LAD WITH THE SILVER BUTTON: THROUGH THE ISLE OF MULL
THE LAD WITH THE SILVER BUTTON: ACROSS MORVEN
THE DEATH OF THE RED FOX
TALK WITH ALAN IN THE WOOD OF LETTERMORE
THE HOUSE OF FEAR
THE FLIGHT IN THE HEATHER: THE ROCKS
THE FLIGHT IN THE HEATHER: THE HEUGH OF CORRYNAKIEGH
THE FLIGHT IN THE HEATHER: THE MOOR
CLUNY’S CAGE
THE FLIGHT IN THE HEATHER
THE QUARREL IN BALQUHIDDER
END OF THE FLIGHT: WE PASS THE FORTH
I COME TO MR. RANKEILLOR
I GO IN QUEST OF MY INHERITANCE
I COME INTO MY KINGDOM
GOOD-BYE
TALES AND FANTASIES
BY
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
Decorative graphic
LONDON
CHATTO & WINDUS 1905 p. vCONTENTS
THE MISADVENTURES OF JOHN NICHOLSON
CHAP.
PAGE
I.
IN WHICH JOHN SOWS THE WIND
1
II.
IN WHICH JOHN REAPS THE WHIRLWIND
10
III.
IN WHICH JOHN ENJOYS THE HARVEST HOME
18
IV.
THE SECOND SOWING
27
V.
THE PRODIGAL’S RETURN
35
VI.
THE HOUSE AT MURRAYFIELD
45
VII.
A TRAGI-COMEDY IN A CAB
63
VIII.
SINGULAR INSTANCE OF THE UTILITY OF PASS-KEYS
78
IX.
IN WHICH MR. NICHOLSON ACCEPTS THE PRINCIPLE OF AN ALLOWANCE
95
THE BODY-SNATCHER
109
THE STORY OF A LIE
I.
INTRODUCES THE ADMIRAL
145
II.
A LETTER TO THE PAPERS
154
III.
IN THE ADMIRAL’S NAME
162
IV.
ESTHER ON THE FILIAL RELATION
172
V.
THE PRODIGAL FATHER MAKES HIS DEBUT AT HOME
178
VI.
THE PRODIGAL FATHER GOES ON FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH
189
VII.
THE ELOPEMENT
204
VIII.
BATTLE ROYAL
219
IX.
IN WHICH THE LIBERAL EDITOR RE-APPEARS AS ‘DEUS EX MACHINA’
233
UNDERWOODS
BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
NINTH EDITION
LONDON CHATTO & WINDUS 1898 p. xiiiCONTENTS
BOOK I.—In English
PAGE
I.
Envoy—Go, little book
1
II.
A Song of the Road—The gauger walked
2
III.
The Canoe Speaks—On the great streams
4
IV.
It is the season
7
V.
The House Beautiful—A naked house, a naked moor
9
VI.
A Visit from the Sea—Far from the loud sea beaches
12
VII.
To a Gardener—Friend, in my mountain-side demesne
14
VIII.
To Minnie—A picture frame for you to fill
16
IX.
To K. de M.—A lover of the moorland bare
17
X.
To N. V. de G. S.—The unfathomable sea
19
XI.
To Will. H. Low—Youth now flees
21
XII.
To Mrs. Will. H. Low—Even in the bluest noonday of July
24
XIII.
To H. F. Brown—I sit and wait
26
XIV.
To Andrew Lang—Dear Andrew
29
XV.
Et tu in Arcadia vixisti—In ancient tales, O friend
31
p. xivXVI.
To W. E. Henley—The year runs through her phases
36
XVII.
Henry James—Who comes to-night
38
XVIII.
The Mirror Speaks—Where the bells
39
XIX.
Katharine—We see you as we see a face
41
XX.
To F. J. S.—I read, dear friend
42
XXI.
Requiem—Under the wide and starry sky
43
XXII.
The Celestial Surgeon—If I have faltered
44
XXIII.
Our Lady of the Snows—Out of the sun
45
XXIV.
Not yet, my soul
50
XXV.
It is not yours, O mother, to complain
53
XXVI.
The Sick Child—O mother, lay your hand on my brow
56
XXVII.
In Memoriam F. A. S.—Yet, O stricken heart
58
XXVIII.
To my Father—Peace and her huge invasion
60
XXIX.
In the States—With half a heart
62
XXX.
A Portrait—I am a kind of farthing dip
63
XXXI.
Sing clearlier, Muse
65
XXXII.
A Camp—The bed was made
66
XXXIII.
The Country of the Camisards—We travelled in the print of olden wars
67
XXXIV.
Skerryvore—For love of lovely words
68
XXXV.
Skerryvore: The Parallel—Here all is sunny
69
XXXVI.
My house, I say
70
XXXVII.
My body which my dungeon is
71
XXXVIII.
Say not of me that weakly I declined
73
BOOK II.—In Scots
I.
The Maker to Posterity—Far ’yont amang the years to be
77
II.
Ille Terrarum—Frae nirly, nippin’, Eas’lan’ breeze
80
III.
When aince Aprile has fairly come
85
IV.
A Mile an’ a Bittock
87
V.
A Lowden Sabbath Morn—The clinkum-clank o’ Sabbath bells
89
VI.
The Spaewife—O, I wad like to ken
98
VII.
The Blast—1875—It’s rainin’. Weet’s the gairden sod
100
VIII.
The Counterblast—1886—My bonny man, the warld, it’s true
103
IX.
The Counterblast Ironical—It’s strange that God should fash to frame
108
X.
Their Laureate to an Academy Class Dinner Club—Dear Thamson class, whaure’er I gang
110
XI.
Embro Hie Kirk—The Lord Himsel’ in former days
114
XII.
The Scotsman’s Return from Abroad—In mony a foreign pairt I’ve been
118
XIII.
Late in the nicht
125
XIV.
My Conscience!—Of a’ the ills that flesh can fear
130
XV.
To Doctor John Brown—By Lyne and Tyne, by Thames and Tees
133
XVI.
It’s an owercome sooth for age an’ youth
138
NEW POEMS AND VARIANT READINGS
BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
LONDON CHATTO & WINDUS 1918 p. xiCONTENTS
PAGE
PRAYER
1
LO! IN THINE HONEST EYES I READ
2
THOUGH DEEP INDIFFERENCE SHOULD DROWSE
2
MY HEART, WHEN FIRST THE BLACKBIRD SINGS
3
I DREAMED OF FOREST ALLEYS FAIR
4
ST. MARTIN’S SUMMER
6
DEDICATION
7
THE OLD CHIMÆRAS, OLD RECEIPTS
8
PRELUDE
10
THE VANQUISHED KNIGHT
11
TO THE COMMISSIONERS OF NORTHERN LIGHTS
11
THE RELIC TAKEN, WHAT AVAILS THE SHRINE?
13
ABOUT THE SHELTERED GARDEN GROUND
14
AFTER READING “ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA”
15
I KNOW NOT HOW, BUT AS I COUNT
15
SPRING SONG
16
THE SUMMER SUN SHONE ROUND ME
16
YOU LOOKED SO TEMPTING IN THE PEW
17
LOVE’S VICISSITUDES
18
DUDDINGSTONE
18
STOUT MARCHES LEAD TO CERTAIN ENDS
20
AWAY WITH FUNERAL MUSIC
20
TO SYDNEY
21
HAD I THE POWER THAT HAVE THE WILL
23
O DULL COLD NORTHERN SKY
24
APOLOGETIC POSTSCRIPT OF A YEAR LATER
25
TO MARCUS
26
TO OTTILIE
27
THIS GLOOMY NORTHERN DAY
28
THE WIND IS WITHOUT THERE AND HOWLS IN THE TREES
29
A VALENTINE’S SONG
31
HAIL! CHILDISH SLAVES OF SOCIAL RULES
34
SWALLOWS TRAVEL TO AND FRO
36
p. xiiTO MESDAMES ZASSETSKY AND GARSCHINE
37
TO MADAME GARSCHINE
39
MUSIC AT THE VILLA MARINA
39
FEAR NOT, DEAR FRIEND, BUT FREELY LIVE YOUR DAYS
40
LET LOVE GO, IF GO SHE WILL
41
I DO NOT FEAR TO OWN ME KIN
42
I AM LIKE ONE THAT FOR LONG DAYS HAD SATE
44
VOLUNTARY
45
ON NOW, ALTHOUGH THE YEAR BE DONE
47
IN THE GREEN AND GALLANT SPRING
47
DEATH, TO THE DEAD FOR EVERMORE
48
TO CHARLES BAXTER
49
I WHO ALL THE WINTER THROUGH
52
LOVE, WHAT IS LOVE?
53
SOON OUR FRIENDS PERISH
53
AS ONE WHO HAVING WANDERED ALL NIGHT LONG
53
STRANGE ARE THE WAYS OF MEN
55
THE WIND BLEW SHRILL AND SMART
56
MAN SAILS THE DEEP AWHILE
57
THE COCK’S CLEAR VOICE INTO THE CLEARER AIR
58
NOW WHEN THE NUMBER OF MY YEARS
59
WHAT MAN MAY LEARN, WHAT MAN MAY DO
60
SMALL IS THE TRUST WHEN LOVE IS GREEN
61
KNOW YOU THE RIVER NEAR TO GREZ
62
IT’S FORTH ACROSS THE ROARING FOAM
63
AN ENGLISH BREEZE
65
AS IN THEIR FLIGHT THE BIRDS OF SONG
66
THE PIPER
67
TO MRS. MACMARLAND
58
TO MISS CORNISH
69
TALES OF ARABIA
71
BEHOLD, AS GOBLINS DARK OF MIEN
72
STILL I LOVE TO RHYME
73
LONG TIME I LAY IN LITTLE EASE
74
FLOWER GOD, GOD OF THE SPRING
75
COME, MY BELOVED, HEAR FROM ME
76
SINCE YEARS AGO FOR EVERMORE
77
ENVOY FOR “A CHILD’S GARDEN OF VERSES”
78
FOR RICHMOND’S GARDEN WALL
80
p. xiiiHAIL, GUEST, AND ENTER FREELY!
80
LO, NOW, MY GUEST
81
SO LIVE, SO LOVE, SO USE THAT FRAGILE HOUR
81
AD SE IPSUM
82
BEFORE THIS LITTLE GIFT WAS COME
82
GO, LITTLE BOOK—THE ANCIENT PHRASE
83
MY LOVE WAS WARM
84
DEDICATORY POEM FOR “UNDERWOODS”
85
FAREWELL
86
THE FAR-FARERS
87
COME, MY LITTLE CHILDREN, HERE ARE SONGS FOR YOU
87
HOME FROM THE DAISIED MEADOWS
88
EARLY IN THE MORNING I HEAR ON YOUR PIANO
88
FAIR ISLE AT SEA
89
LOUD AND LOW IN THE CHIMNEY
89
I LOVE TO BE WARM BY THE RED FIRESIDE
90
AT LAST SHE COMES
90
MINE EYES WERE SWIFT TO KNOW THEE
90
FIXED IS THE DOOM
91
MEN ARE HEAVEN’S PIERS
92
THE ANGLER ROSE, HE TOOK HIS ROD
93
SPRING CAROL
94
TO WHAT SHALL I COMPARE HER
95
WHEN THE SUN COMES AFTER RAIN
96
LATE, O MILLER
97
TO FRIENDS AT HOME
97
I, WHOM APOLLO SOMETIME VISITED
98
TEMPEST TOSSED AND SORE AFFLICTED
98
VARIANT FORM OF THE PRECEDING POEM
99
I NOW, O FRIEND, WHOM NOISELESSLY THE SNOWS
100
SINCE THOU HAST GIVEN ME THIS GOOD HOPE, O GOD
103
GOD GAVE TO ME A CHILD IN PART
104
OVER THE LAND IS APRIL
105
LIGHT AS THE LINNET ON MY WAY I START
106
COMIC, HERE IS ADIEU TO THE CITY
106
IT BLOWS A SNOWING GALE
107
NE SIT ANCILLÆ TIBI AMOR PUDOR
107
TO ALL THAT LOVE THE FAR AND BLUE
108
THOU STRAINEST THROUGH THE MOUNTAIN FERN
110
p. xivTO ROSABELLE
111
NOW BARE TO THE BEHOLDER’S EYE
112
THE BOUR-TREE DEN
114
SONNETS
118
FRAGMENTS
123
AIR OF DIABELLI’S
128
EPITAPHIUM EROTII
132
DE M. ANTONIO
133
AD MAGISTRUM LUDI
133
AD NEPOTEM
134
IN CHARIDEMUM
135
DE LIGURRA
135
IN LUPUM
136
AD QUINTILIANUM
137
DE HORTIS JULII MARTIALIS
137
AD MARTIALEM
139
IN MAXIMUM
139
AD OLUM
140
DE CŒNATIONE MICÆ
140
DE EROTIO PUELLA
141
AD PISCATOREM
141
THE SILVERADO SQUATTERS
BY
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
WITH A FRONTISPIECE BY JOSEPH D. STRONG
LONDON CHATTO & WINDUS 1906 CONTENTS
In the Valley:
I.
Calistoga
13
II.
The Petrified Forest
24
III.
Napa Wine
34
IV.
The Scot Abroad
48
With the Children of Israel:
I.
To Introduce Mr. Kelmar
59
II.
First Impressions of Silverado
68
III.
The Return
92
The Act of Squatting
103
The Hunter’s Family
127
The Sea Fogs
153
The Toll House
171
A Starry Drive
185
Episodes in the Story of a Mine
197
Toils And Pleasures
223
AN INLAND VOYAGE
BY
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
A NEW EDITION
WITH A FRONTISPIECE BY WALTER CRANE
LONDON CHATTO & WINDUS 1904
‘Thus sang they in the English boat.’
Marvell.
CONTENTS
PAGE
Antwerp to Boom
1
On the Willebroek Canal
8
The Royal Sport Nautique
16
At Maubeuge
25
On the Sambre Canalised: to Quartes
33
Pont-sur-Sambre:
We are Pedlars
42
The Travelling Merchant
51
On the Sambre Canalised: to Landrecies
59
At Landrecies
67
Sambre and Oise Canal: Canal boats
75
The Oise in Flood
83
Origny Sainte-Benoîte
A By-day
95
The Company at Table
105
Down the Oise: to Moy
116
La Fère of Cursed Memory
124
Down the Oise: Through the Golden Valley
133
Noyon Cathedral
137
Down the Oise: to Compiègne
145
Changed Times
157
Down the Oise: Church interiors
167
Précy and the Marionnettes
177
Back to the world
194
ESSAYS OF TRAVEL
by
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
LONDON CHATTO & WINDUS 1905
second impression
Contents
page
I.
The Amateur Emigrant: From The Clyde To Sandy Hook—
The Second Cabin
3
Early Impressions
11
Steerage Scenes
21
Steerage Types
30
The Sick Man
42
The Stowaways
53
Personal Experience And Review
69
New York
81
II.
Cockermouth And Keswick
93
Cockermouth
94
An Evangelist
97
Another
100
Last Of Smethurst
102
III.
An Autumn Effect
106
IV.
A Winter’s Walk In Carrick And Galloway
131
V.
Forest Notes—
On The Plains
144
In The Season
149
Idle Hours
153
A Pleasure-Party
157
The Woods In Spring
164
Morality
169
VI.
A Mountain Town In France
175
VII.
Random Memories: Rosa Quo Locorum
189
VII.
The Ideal House
199
IX.
Davos In Winter
207
X.
Health And Mountains
212
XI.
Alpine Diversion
217
XII.
The Stimulation Of The Alps
222
XIII.
Roads
227
XIV.
On The Enjoyment Of Unpleasant Places
237
MORE NEW ARABIAN NIGHTS THE DYNAMITER
by
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON and FANNY VAN de GRIFT STEVENSON
new impression
LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. 39 paternoster row, london new york and bombay
1903 THE DYNAMITER
page
Prologue of the Cigar Divan
1
Challoner’s Adventure:
The Squire of Dames
13
Story of the Destroying Angel
27
The Squire of Dames (continued)
76
Summerset’s Adventure:
The Superfluous Mansion
100
Narrative of the Spirited Old Lady
108
The Superfluous Mansion (continued)
145
Zero’s Tale of the Explosive Bomb
195
Desborough’s Adventure:
The Brown Box
209
Story of the Fair Cuban
219
The Brown Box (continued)
269
The Superfluous Mansion (continued)
286
Epilogue of the Cigar Divan
299
NEW ARABIAN NIGHTS
BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
LONDON CHATTO & WINDUS 1920 CONTENTS
THE SUICIDE CLUB:
PAGE
Story of the Young Man with the Cream Tarts
1
Story of the Physician and the Saratoga Trunk
35
The Adventure of the Hansom Cabs
65
THE RAJAH’S DIAMOND:
Story of the Bandbox
88
Story of the Young Man in Holy Orders
116
Story of the House with the Green Blinds
133
The Adventure of Prince Florizel and a Detective
168
THE PAVILION ON THE LINKS:
CHAP.
I.
Tells how I Camped in Graden Sea-wood, and beheld a Light in the Pavilion
171
II.
Tells of the Nocturnal Landing from the Yacht
184
III.
Tells how I became acquainted with my Wife
191
IV.
Tells in what a startling manner I learned that I was not alone in Graden Sea-wood
200
V.
Tells of an Interview between Northmour, Clara, and Myself
209
VI.
Tells of my Introduction to the Tall Man
215
VII.
Tells how a Word was Cried through the Pavilion Window
221
VIII.
Tells the Last of the Tall Man
228
IX.
Tells how Northmour carried out his Threat
235
A LODGING FOR THE NIGHT
242
THE SIRE DE MALÊTROIT’S DOOR
267
PROVIDENCE AND THE GUITAR
292
THE WRECKER
by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne
CONTENTS
PROLOGUE.
IN THE MARQUESAS.
THE YARN.
EPILOGUE
THE WRONG BOX
BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON and LLOYD OSBOURNE
Contents PREFACE
THE EBB-TIDE A TRIO AND QUARTETTE
By Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyde Osbourne
'There is a tide in the affairs of men.'
Contents