R. L. S. SPEARING FISH IN THE BOW OF THE SCHOONER “EQUATOR”

THE WORKS OF

ROBERT LOUIS

STEVENSON

VOLUME TWENTY-TWO
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

JUVENILIA AND OTHER PAPERS

THE PENTLAND RISING
PAGE
I.The Causes of the Revolt[3]
II.The Beginning[6]
III.The March of the Rebels[8]
IV.Rullion Green[13]
V.A Record of Blood[17]
SKETCHES
I.The Satirist[25]
II.Nuits Blanches[27]
III.The Wreath of Immortelles[30]
IV.Nurses[34]
V.A Character[37]
COLLEGE PAPERS
I.Edinburgh Students in 1824[41]
II.The Modern Student considered generally[45]
III.Debating Societies[53]
IV.The Philosophy of Umbrellas[58]
V.The Philosophy of Nomenclature[63]
NOTES AND ESSAYS CHIEFLY OF THE ROAD
I.A Retrospect[71]
II.Cockermouth and Keswick[80]
III.Roads[90]
IV.Notes on the Movements of Young Children[97]
V.On the Enjoyment of Unpleasant Places[103]
VI.An Autumn Effect[112]
VII.A Winter’s Walk in Carrick and Galloway[132]
VIII.Forest Notes[142]
CRITICISMS
I.Lord Lytton’s “Fables in Song”[171]
II.Salvini’s Macbeth[180]
III.Bagster’s “Pilgrim’s Progress”[186]
AN APPEAL TO THE CLERGY OF THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND[199]
THE CHARITY BAZAAR[213]
THE LIGHT-KEEPER[217]
ON A NEW FORM OF INTERMITTENT LIGHT FOR LIGHTHOUSES[220]
ON THE THERMAL INFLUENCE OF FORESTS[225]
ESSAYS OF TRAVEL
I.Davos in Winter[241]
II.Health and Mountains[244]
III.Alpine Diversions[248]
IV.The Stimulation of the Alps[252]
STEVENSON AT PLAY
Introduction by Lloyd Osbourne[259]
War Correspondence From Stevenson’s Note-Book[263]
THE DAVOS PRESS
MORAL EMBLEMS, ETC.: FACSIMILES
Advertisement of Black Canyon[283]
Black Canyon, or Wild Adventures in the Far West[285]
Not I, and Other Poems[293]
Moral Emblems[301]
Advertisement of Moral Emblems: Edition de Luxe[312]
Advertisement of Moral Emblems: Second Collection[315]
Moral Emblems: Second Collection[317]
A Martial Elegy for Some Lead Soldiers[329]
Advertisement of the Graver and the Pen[331]
The Graver and the Pen[333]
MORAL TALES
Robin and Ben; or, The Pirate and the Apothecary[367]
The Builder’s Doom[375]