JACQUELINE M. OVERTON

NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1933

TO THE BOYS AT THE YORKVILLE LIBRARY
AND
TO ALL OTHER BOYS
WHO LOVE TO TRAMP AND CAMP AND SEEK ADVENTURE
I DEDICATE THIS BOOK
WITH THE HOPE OF MAKING THEM
BETTER FRIENDS WITH A MAN WHO ALSO
LOVED THESE THINGS

CONTENTS

CHAPTER
I. [THE LIGHTHOUSE BUILDERS]
II. [ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON]
III. [THE LANTERN BEARER]
IV. [EDINBURGH DAYS]
V. [AMATEUR EMIGRANT]
VI. [SCOTLAND AGAIN]
VII. [SECOND VISIT TO AMERICA]
VIII. [IN THE SOUTH SEAS]
IX. [VAILIMA]
[BIBLIOGRAPHY]

ILLUSTRATIONS

[Robert Louis Stevenson]
From a photograph by Mr. Lloyd Osbourne

[No. 8 Howard Place, Edinburgh, Stevenson's birthplace]

[Colinton Manse]

[Swanston Cottage]

[Edinburgh Castle]

[Skerryvore Cottage, Bournemouth]

[The Treasure Island map]

[Facsimile of letter sent to Cummy with "An Inland Voyage"]

[Bas-relief of Stevenson by Augustus Saint Gaudens]

[South Sea houses]

[The house at Vailima]

[A feast of chiefs]

[The tomb of Stevenson on Væa Mountain]