Herman Melville, Mariner and Mystic

by Raymond M. Weaver

Raymond M. Weaver.
October 1, 1921.

Most of the letters of Melville to Hawthorne included in this volume are quoted from Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife, by Julian Hawthorne. These letters, and other citations from Mr. Hawthorne’s memoir, are included through the courtesy of Messrs. Houghton Mifflin Company.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER		PAGE
I	Devil’s Advocate	[15]
II	Ghosts	[33]
III	Parents and Early Years	[53]
IV	A Substitute for Pistol and Ball	[77]
V	Discoveries on Two Continents	[98]
VI	Pedagogy, Pugilism and Letters	[113]
VII	Blubber and Mysticism	[128]
VIII	Leviathan	[153]
IX	The Pacific	[170]
X	Man-Eating Epicures—The Marquesas	[194]
XI	Mutiny and Missionaries—Tahiti	[215]
XII	On Board a Man-of-War	[233]
XIII	Into the Racing Tide	[250]
XIV	Across the Atlantic Again	[283]
XV	A Neighbour of Hawthorne’s	[305]
XVI	The Great Refusal	[334]
XVII	The Long Quietus	[349]
	Bibliography	[385]
	Index of Names	[391]

ILLUSTRATIONS

Herman Melville	[Frontispiece]
PAGE
Melville’s Grandfathers	[40]
General Peter Gansevoort
Major Thomas Melville
Allan Melville	[56]
Maria Gansevoort Melville	[64]
In 1820
In 1865
A Page from One of Melville’s Journals	[104]
Throwing the Harpoon	[136]
Sounding	[136]
Sperm Whaling. The Capture	[160]
One of Six Whaling Prints	[160]
“Toby.” Richard Tobias Greene	[164]
In 1846
In 1865
Evangelising Polynesia	[184]
Richard Tobias Greene. In 1885	[200]
First Home of the Protestant Missionaries in Tahiti	[224]
The Fleet of Tahiti	[224]
Elizabeth Shaw Melville	[272]
Arrowhead	[312]
The Fireplace. Arrowhead	[312]
Herman Melville. In 1868	[352]
Melville As Artist	[368]
Melville’s Children	[376]