Footnotes:
[1] Professor Charles Warren Stoddard, Professor of English Literature at the Catholic University of Washington, in Kate Field’s Washington.
[2] In his portrait-sketch of his father, Stevenson speaks of him as a “man of somewhat antique strain, and with a blended sternness and softness that was wholly Scottish, and at first sight somewhat bewildering,” as melancholy, and with a keen sense of his unworthiness, yet humorous in company; shrewd and childish; a capital adviser.
[3] Inferno, Canto XV.
[4] Alas, I never was told that remark—when I saw my friend afterwards there was always too much to talk of else, and I forgot to ask.
[5] Quoted by Hammerton, pp. 2 and 3.
[6] Tusitala, as the reader must know, is the Samoan for Teller of Tales.
[7] Wisdom of Goethe, p. 38.
[8] The Foreigner at Home, in Memories and Portraits.
[9] A great deal has been made of the “John Bull element” in De Quincey since his Memoir was written by me (see Masson’s Condensation, p. 95); so now perhaps a little more may be made of the rather conceited Calvinistic Scot element in R. L. Stevenson!
[10] It was Mr George Moore who said this.
[11] Fortnightly Review, October, 1903.